Sierra Install Woes (27' iMac Late 2013)

has anyone experienced issues install MacOS Sierra via upgrade or clean install in which it seems to be hung and the timing remainig counter displays negative numbers? e.g. -21 remainig, -401 remaining


Hope a more experienced eye with installation errors might have an idea what is going or are the errors exepcted. It seems to hang on install and does not provided further progress update after the last line in the file. Didn't copy the whole log file. Only after it complete the download of the installer via recovery. I did let it run for about an hour and half after the last line June 15 08:12:24 and nothing occured, nor was any additional information added to the log file.'


Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storedownloadd[532]: Commerce:sending status (10.12 Developer Preview): 0.961538% (3.000000)

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storedownloadd[532]: Commerce:ISStoreURLOperation: Starting URL operation with url=(null) / bagKey=songDownloadDone

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storedownloadd[532]: Commerce:-[ISStoreURLOperation _runURLOperation]: _addStandardQueryParametersForURL: https://p26-buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFastFinance.woa/wa/songDownloadDone?Pod=26

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeaccountd[529]: Commerce:ADI: Account is provisioned, using OTP and MD from ADI

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeassetd[533]: Commerce:SoftwareMap: No app was found with bundle ID com.apple.InstallAssistant.OSX12Seed1 to upgrade to 12.0.15

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeassetd[533]: Commerce:SoftwareMap: No app was found with bundle ID com.apple.InstallAssistant.OSX12Seed1 to upgrade to 12.0.15

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeassetd[533]: SUAppStoreUpdateController: XPC error in __77-[SUAppStoreUpdateController _queryForAvailableUpdatesWithCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke (Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.softwareupdated was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.softwareupdated was invalidated.})

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeassetd[533]: Query for available updates: FINISHED

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storedownloadd[532]: Commerce:sending status (10.12 Developer Preview): 1.000000% (0.000000)

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storedownloadd[532]: Commerce:Download: Skipping file cleanup because custom install phase used.

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac storeassetd[533]: Commerce:SoftwareMap: No app was found with bundle ID com.apple.InstallAssistant.OSX12Seed1 to upgrade to 12.0.15

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: OSISAppStoreDownload: finished

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: Moved download assets into mutable product... /Volumes/Macintosh HD/OS X Install Data/diu414781394017735583.pkg => /Volumes/Macintosh HD/OS X Install Data/InstallESD.dmg.partial

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: No native mechanism to verify InstallESD.dmg

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: Retrieved package com.apple.dmg.MacOSX (pisa://7fd5d9d31880:::/InstallESD.dmg)

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: Operation queue succeeded

Jun 15 08:12:20 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Finished operation queue

Jun 15 08:12:21 iMac osishelperd[542]: Wrote prev-lang:kbd=en:0

Jun 15 08:12:21 iMac osishelperd[542]: IASGetCurrentInstallPhaseList: no install phase array set

Jun 15 08:12:21 iMac osishelperd[542]: IASGetCurrentInstallPhase: no install phase set

Jun 15 08:12:21 iMac osishelperd[542]: hdiejectd already disabled.

Jun 15 08:12:21 iMac osishelperd[542]: mountDiskImageWithPath: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/OS X Install Data/InstallESD.dmg

Jun 15 08:12:23 iMac osishelperd[542]: Mounting disk image complete, results dict = {

"system-entities" = (

{

"content-hint" = "Apple_HFS";

"dev-entry" = "/dev/disk20s2";

"mount-point" = "/Volumes/OS X Install ESD";

"potentially-mountable" = 1;

"unmapped-content-hint" = "48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC";

"volume-kind" = hfs;

},

{

"content-hint" = EFI;

"dev-entry" = "/dev/disk20s1";

"potentially-mountable" = 1;

"unmapped-content-hint" = "C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B";

"volume-kind" = msdos;

},

{

"content-hint" = "GUID_partition_scheme";

"dev-entry" = "/dev/disk20";

"potentially-mountable" = 0;

"unmapped-content-hint" = "GUID_partition_scheme";

}

);

}

Jun 15 08:12:23 iMac osishelperd[542]: mountDiskImageWithPath: /Volumes/OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac osishelperd[542]: Mounting disk image complete, results dict = {

"system-entities" = (

{

"content-hint" = "Apple_HFS";

"dev-entry" = "/dev/disk21s1";

"mount-point" = "/Volumes/OS X Base System 1";

"potentially-mountable" = 1;

"unmapped-content-hint" = "48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC";

"volume-kind" = hfs;

},

{

"content-hint" = "GUID_partition_scheme";

"dev-entry" = "/dev/disk21";

"potentially-mountable" = 0;

"unmapped-content-hint" = "GUID_partition_scheme";

}

);

}

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac osishelperd[542]: Failed to prep /Volumes/OS X Install ESD for brtool

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac osishelperd[542]: Failed to prep /Volumes/OS X Base System 1 for brtool

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac osishelperd[542]: Failed to write /etc/rc.deferred_install

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac osinstallersetupd[528]: Unable to setup bless on disk.

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskAppeared: disk20s2

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk20s2 OS X Install ESD as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskAppeared: disk20s1

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk20s1 EFI as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskAppeared: disk20

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk20 (null) as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskMounted: disk20s2

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk20s2 OS X Install ESD as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskAppeared: disk21s1

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk21s1 OS X Base System as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskAppeared: disk21

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk21 (null) as target

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: diskMounted: disk21s1

Jun 15 08:12:24 iMac InstallAssistant[524]: Ignoring non-user-visible disk IADisk_10_6: disk21s1 OS X Base System as target

my install is stuck at -401 seconds as well...

It was a mess for me to get Sierra installed. Multiple Internet Recoverys, upgrades to El Capitan, etc. finally what I did was create an El Capitan USB bootable installer. And, ran the upgrade to Sierra via App Store. It worked and the upgrade went through without issue. However, in my view it shouldn't have taken 3 days to install Sierra. Regardless, that is what you get with a beta, and I've got no issue with the added complexity associated with the install. however, would have thought it might be a little smoother since my iMac is a late 2013. Could expect this type of behavior maybe on the old Macs.

Sierra Install Woes (27' iMac Late 2013)
 
 
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