Catalina Setup hangs . Anyone else?

I tried to update on the 20th and I never saw it move after 3 hours later of pressing "Download". After playing around with the apple store and the link I was able to get an estimate of 6 days and 23 minutes. I still haven't been able to update my computer.

I don’t know how long it takes. I’ve been stuck on “Setting Up Your Mac” screen for almost an hour. Is yours still hanging? (MacMini)

After reading the other posts, I’m going to try a reboot...will report back...

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The same here it seems... looking for hours at configuring.....

I haven’t yet logged on to complete the process of updating.... fingers crossed, my setup does not hang.

My mac started to install Catalina and is now just dead. Nothing works to restart. Just an Apple icon on the screen

That's what I did and it worked...haven't found any issues so far because of the hard shut down.

I have tried safemode start, recovery mode start, I cussed at it, and it is still frozen in the same place

Thanks for all of the replies. My computer after 24 hours decided to finish the install. I am now on the Setting Up Your Mac...

You just turn the computer off and on again?

Yes and it booted to the sign in screen. Set-up continued by asking for iCloud password a few times.

Thanks

Can't upgrade to Catalina. timing out.

The setup of Catalina just hangs - any solutions??