Catalina installation stuck

Didn’t think I was hijacking - I appear to have the same problem. Just trying to get someone knowledgeable to add insight that might be helpful for others, inc me, seemingly having the same problem as the original poster. He waited for 3 hours and problem resolved itself. Curious if ctrl + L would be expected to work during his 3 hour wait and my 2 hour (so far...) wait. Surely better if comments on same problem are all in the same thread?

**** Allen your a Jack-*** too just like another dude I had to check like I’m doing to you now. Loose the I am superior to all attitude and instead of waisting time heckling folks for asking a simple any one out there have knowledge and can give insight attitude ya got bud. How bout being nice and help cause we all know dam well no apple solution person will jump in and help that’s why this is called COMMUNITY SUPPORT.

@ Confused- I just pressed and held the power button, it blipped, powered down and then when I hit it again I am getting the progress bar, which compared to what I've been seeing since yesterday morning, this looks like a good sign. (Hopefully I didn't jinx myself)

don't worry just let it load mine took close to 24 hours but it finally loaded. And still I hope there is an update because I have a few issues. But over all Catalina is nice. Just let it load be patient.

I read that others who were stuck rebooted and things finished up quickly. I got stuck, so I did a restart, and things finished up quickly. Been using Catalina for hours now and everything seems fine. So I think restarting is the trick to get through the Stuck.

Had to call Apple Care (3 year extended care still in effect) after download to my IMac took 14 hrs and then stuck during installation. Finally got restarted but OS was back to Mojave. Installation was in my Applications folder so got that going again but it took all night to install. The next morning I was back in business again. Now another update to 10.15.1 - - estimated time says 2 DAYS. That is ridiculous.

Reboot….that is what I did. Then reinstalled 10.15. It is the long length of time (my estimated time is 2 days for 10.15.1) to upload and install that is bedeviling many of us. I've never had an OS upgrade take longer than an hour or 2 at the most. What is it with Catalina?

It would be really helpful if you could ask for some more verbose progress reporting. So you could tell if it’s working on something that can take a long timer if it’s really just stuck.

Started the installation 12 hours ago and still setting up. No sign of any end to the installation process yet. Totally unsatisfactory. Suggest people think twice before upgrading to Catalina

My iMac reached the login screen after 8 hours. It then got stuck on Setting Up Your Mac ... But that is definitely a different discussion.

Be patient. Mine was just like this. Sometime overnight it finished....

Mine did the exact same thing and it finally loaded just be patient.

Many of us have successfully restarted the computer and the installation process picks up where it left off.

It may work for you too.

Currently having same problem and about 90mins into watching “estimating time remaining....” with the progress bar on about 10%.

question for others stuck like this: should control + L show me what it’s working on if it is still working, or does no response to Control +L mean that it is hung?

thanks.

I went to download Catalina yesterday morning and today it’s stuck on the installation screen. When I try to force quit or reboot. I get the boot up screen. Not sure what to do. Shutting it down is not a fix it goes right back to boot up screen saying estimated 9 minuets. Does anybody have an answer?