Can't Install High Sierra Beta 1 - OSStatus Error 2

Folks, I'm curious if anyone has seen a similar issue installing beta 1 of High Sierra. I have a rMBP, early 2013. The installer begins to run and notes that a specific amount of time is left, in my case between 34 and 35 minutes. After maybe 3-4 minutes of this, it will then state that it is "calculating the amount of time remaining" and do this for maybe 10 minutes at which point the installer window states that it can't install the software and the error message is OSStatus 2 (which I thought was a time machine error). The logs state that it is unable to mount one of the images for install (InstallESD.dmg). I tried a repair on the SSD. The DMG highlighted below is definitely there. Repairing the SSD actually fails, not sure why. I can reinstall Sierra but I haven't actually done a rebuild of the disk and then a reinstall. Maybe I should try that but wanted to know if anyone had insight.


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The install log snippet is below.


Log snippet:


Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Repair completed successfully.

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: mountDiskImageWithURLString: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/macOS Install Data/InstallESD.dmg

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Couldn't mount disk image! (error code 2)

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: OSIInstallElement <OSIMountPayloadElement: 0x7f9caf0181d0> errored out:Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=2 "kCFHostErrorUnknown / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS4SubDomainResponse / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadState / kCFStreamErrorDomainMacOSStatus / siInitVBLQsErr / dsAddressErr / scCommErr / ENOENT: Query the kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey to get the value returned from getaddrinfo; lookup in netdb.h / Error code is the status code returned by the server / / OSStatus type from Carbon APIs; interpret using <MacTypes.h> / VBLqueues for all slots could not be initialized. / address error / communications error, operation timeout / No such file or directory"

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[545]: storagekitd: copyDiskForPath returned nil, error: -69808

Jun 7 01:35:19 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: ------- Install Failed -------

Jun 7 01:35:19 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[544]: Operation: Mount Payload DMG failed, Failure Reason: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=2 "kCFHostErrorUnknown / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS4SubDomainResponse / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadState / kCFStreamErrorDomainMacOSStatus / siInitVBLQsErr / dsAddressErr / scCommErr / ENOENT: Query the kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey to get the value returned from getaddrinfo; lookup in netdb.h / Error code is the status code returned by the server / / OSStatus type from Carbon APIs; interpret using <MacTypes.h> / VBLqueues for all slots could not be initialized. / address error / communications error, operation timeout / No such file or directory"

Hi,


I can only share with you the same plight because I didn't have any solutions but to reinstall macOS Sierra. I did have the same problem when I tried to install High Sierra on a 2012 Mac Mini (no SSD). The process was also stuck at estimating time, then announcing 40 minutes left. I was asked to restart the machine and the installation got into an infinite loop … Whatever, I have backups galore and a bootable clean rescue OS, so I erased the disk completely but High Sierra wouldn't get installed either. So I just reverted to macOS Sierra. I'll wait for the final release or a future beta, if I have some time. OS upgrades with new file systems are always tricky anyway. So I'll leave it to more courageous testers than me. The positive outcome of all this is that I now have a clean working macOS Sierra! I had never bothered to make fresh upgrades so far, so a lot of messy files must have piled up since I got my Mac Mini.

I had this same error in my `/var/log/install.log` when trying to boot from an externally formatted High Sierra Beta installer.


Eventually I arrived at this instructions to do a clean install of High Sierra Beta on a APFS-formatted main HD:


1. From 10.11 or 10.12 systems, format an external hard drive with at least 500gb with "Mac Os Extended Journaled".

2. Download High Sierra Beta and install it in the external hard drive.

3. When the system reboots and finishes installation, it will boot from the external HD. Go to Preferences and change Startup Disk to be main HD.

4. Reboot and press Option key when the computer makes a beep and select external HD to boot from it.

5. Once booted again into external HD, format main HD to be APFS.

6. Download High Sierra Beta from external HD booted system and install it in main HD.

7. Upon restart the main HD will be clean installed with High Sierra Beta and APFS formatted.

Can't Install High Sierra Beta 1 - OSStatus Error 2
 
 
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