osx - Mavericks OS X Update Freezing after restart

15
2013-12
  • Questioner

    I just tried to update my 10.7 (Lion) 2010 MacBook Air to Mavericks but it's now freezing after it restarts (done that twice yet).

    When I hard reboot the computer, it just starts the installation again and freezes at the end - sometimes showing it encountered a problem.

    What should I do?

    • Answers
  • Manav Kataria

    You should wait longer. The installation process isn't complete.

  • Richard Aubé

    Macbook Air 2013 i7 500GB SSD OS X 10.8 When it said 'less than one minute' it was in fact 7 minutes. Conclusion: you probably have to wait for quite a long time. Progress monitor is flaky.

  • Jeff R

    No solution, but one useless attempt that you needn't waste your time on.

    I installed Mavricks on three computers without problem, then experienced the same issue installing that others have encountered, and the same freezing - or glacial progress in booting up- that makes my ca. 2011 iMac useless.

    I ran Diskwarrior from the CD, rebuilt the directory, checked all folders, ran the hardware test. Everything was apparently fine... but the problems remain. Try something else.


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  • slhck

    You can try if the solutions here work out for you.

    This includes the following post:

    I pressed shift-option-command and clicked on iTunes in the dock. iTunes started in safe mode, it said 'iTunes is starting in safe mode and any visual add ons will be disabled" clicked OK and it started up and went throught the library update with no problems.

    Also, if you don't really need your library, you can try to move the ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl file away temporarily, and then try to restart iTunes with a fresh library.