Can't update my 8 core!

[Jim Brennan]

I am running 10.5.5 on my 8-core. I recently tried to update my software, but when it gets to the configuring stage it just freezes up.

So I went back and just updated a single app (iWeb) and that worked fine. Then I re-ran software update and just tried to update the OS. That's when I run into problems.

It asks about restarting, goes to that generic screen and starts to configure the install. Then it freezes up with the bar about 10% across.

I have recently repaired permissions and he re-booted and re-attempted an update several times.

Any suggestions?

[Hawk Teflon]

How long was it sitting there? I updated mine yesterday. It sat there around that percentage for a good 10 minutes or so before moving on. Everything was fine after that.

[Jim Brennan]

Overnight.

[krestofre]

Happened to my wife's Mac once. Had to reinstall the OS (just on top, no formatting) then redid the update and all was fine. Took time, but no loss of data or anything. Since then every other update has been fine.

I don't really know why, or if that will help your problem, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

[Jim Brennan]

Much appreciated. I may have time to try that this weekend.

[Cassius]

It sounds like you don't have enough processing power. Try investing in a 16 core.

[Anhar Miah]

I hope things turn out alright Jim,

speaking of multi cores (something I;m involved in as in personal R&D), its quite an interesting thing, on the one hand if done correctly data parallelism has out-right processing returns, things aren't that rosy though:

(a) until software explicitly takes advantages of multi-cores, the returns are not any better than say single cores (in some cases its worse) since there are overheads associated with OS 'piping' and slicing etc.

Things will get better when *us* lazy developers actually start using the awesome power that exists..

(b) some things just can not be parallelized, this is the Achilles heel of Parallel computing, sadly no one has figured this one out... (as in some partial solution)


Anhar