Hi.
I'm making a clean install.
The install process is stuck at "about a second remaining". And the progress barre is full and it is waving!
Please any idea?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 13" mid-2010
Go to Window and "Installer Log" ... and choose "Show All Logs" ... if the process is stuck at failed/retrying just disconnect wifi and connect again. A retry option will pop-up. Check log file and you should get something like ... Got chuck 205 of 508 ... and counting ... this means the download is working even the about 0 seconds remaining message is not updating. All the best!
The Mac finally restarts after 15 minutes like this.
See you
Hi,
just calm down. After a couple of minutes "one second remaning" the update will be installed successfully.
Yes thank you for cheering me up. I have to confess that I went into total panic. It's a clean install. It means that I erased the Macintosh HD. I have a clone and a time machine backups.
But one second to wait and 15 minutes in real. It frightened me to death.
Mine did the same apart from it was stuck on "less than one minute remaining" for 18 hours, left overnight, ended up turning off via holding down power button. Turned it back on and the install had completed, just had to go through the set up process, all seems fine so far. So even though it was stuck installing it seems it had actually installed.
I came to the forum for exactly the same thing, but indeed after 15 minutes it finished. Now I am at the Apple on reboot with the spinner, I hope its the same thing, wait only, not a bad install.
I don't remember Lion or Moutain Lion doing this.
same for me....I was a little scared, but you can't live your life in fear so I made me a sandwich and by the time i came back to my desktop it was ready!
I've am currently experiencing this problem too.
I've tried several times and changed a few things alas still no Mavericks.
First attempt instal halted at "About a second remaining" for over an hour. I did a hard reset and tried exactly the same again - no luck.
Second attempt I re-installed the USB drive with Mavericks, erased the hard drive and tried again - halted at "About a second remaining" for over an hour.
Third attempt same as above and now halted at "About a second remaining" for the past hour and a half ... could anyone reasure me that this install taking well over 2 hours is normal as most are only experiencing problems for 10-15 mins ...
Thanks in Advance!
3:30 hours later finally getting somewhere!! *Phew*
patience is a virtue
Currently stuck on a second remaining..... Apple shares; SOLD!
Same here...MacBook Pro early 2008, clean install using 8gig usb...hung at "about a second remaining". After about 15 minutes it rebooted automatically and the install is in progress. Here we go.....
patience is a virtue
My reinstall quits at 3 hours and 13 min says Marvericks cannot download after haviing done so for 1 hour.
(Command - R)
Any ideas?
I've installed many more machines with Mavericks than i can remember, and one thing that has almost always worked, is if you force the Mac to do something else, say you click the apple-menu in the top-left corner and choose 'Startup Disk...'
Somehow this seems to spark some activity somewhere and cause it to 'wake up' out of it's nerve-wrecking 'last second'..
So, when it's saying 'less than a second remaining', go to the Apple menu and click 'Startup disk...'
Mavericks install stuck at "about a second remaining"
