Unable to Install OS X El Capitan FileVault conversion in progress

Hi,

I had the same problem, trying to reinstall in recovery mode, my current install did nothing, it gives a kernel panic after inlog.

So i was totally stuck. I tried everything i found on internet except for erasing the HD, nothing solved the problem.

These steps solved my problem

- Go the Recovery mode (hold cmd + R during boot)

- open a terminal, and type: diskuitl cs list

result:

Conversion Progress: Paused

- Searched for the binary 'corestoraged': file / -name 'corestorage*'

- found it in the recovery folder: /usr/libexec/corestoraged

- Started corestoraged in the found folder: ./corestoraged

- Check the HD via the first terminal, the Conversion progress now showed a percentage, after a hour the hd was converted.

- than i could reinstall El capitan from the same recovery mode.

- After the reinstall everything was like it was.

I have exactly the same issue on my 2014 MBA i5 256GB SSD. Tried everything suggested on the Yosemite boards with no luck so have ignored the issue until now when it is preventing me from installing El Capitan.

Filevault is stuck on "Encryption paused" and will not budge.

The Yosemite thread has over 240,000 views so i am hoping Apple will have a fix for this soon.

I did exactly the same thing. First took a time machine backup of everything. Then created a bootable USB drive using DiscmasterX. Then i booted into the Option menu, erased the original SSD and installed El Capitain from USB drive. After that restored all data from time machine. Long but painless.

Don't think i will touch file vault again.

This solution is fine and well for some users but for me, I have low level setting for things like my local server that I'd loose that wouldn't be carried over from a Time Machine backup. I've tried several other suggestions but haven't been able to get FileVault to turn off or resume. It's stuck on pause. This leaves me unable to update.

Hi all,

Just sharing an update here as I recently spent several hours with Apple technical support. We tried using Disk Utility to Verify and Repair the drive to no avail. I then did some diagnostics and sent them in to Apple and after reviewing them they sent me this the below message. So it sounds like they are aware of the issue and my hope is that a patch release to Yosemite will fix Filevault, thus allowing the update to be finally performed.

> We had poken a few days ago in regards to the file vault process not completing which was not allowing you to proceed with the El Capitan upgrade. Our engineers have received the capture data that you had sent and have reviewed it. They have let me no that this is a trending issue and they are working on a resolution. They will contact me as soon as there is a resolution for the issue. Once I hear word back from them, I will be in touch with you to proceed. If you would like to upgrade still without waiting, we can backup your data to an external drive manually and then perform an erase and reinstall and restore your data. From there, we can then upgrade to OS X El Capitan.

Exactly same issue here, El Capitan prevented me from upgrading saying that FileVault conversion status is stuck at paused.

Have tried all methods but none works. Besides I hate the idea of using a whole portable hard-drive as a backup disk for TIme Machine.

As such, I'm now stuck at Yosemite 10.10.5.

What an annoying error!

Hi mewiki,

Would love to try this out, as I've been stuck for weeks with the same issue.

Possible to get more specific details on the following steps?

- Searched for the binary 'corestoraged': file / -name 'corestorage*'

- found it in the recovery folder: /usr/libexec/corestoraged

- Started corestoraged in the found folder: ./corestoraged

I understand the first few and last few, but ont sure how to search in terminal, how to start ... in the found folder... etc...

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Sorry for the late reply, but you need to open a terminal and copy the bold text.

at step 2 type cd and copy the found path.

- 1 Searched for the binary 'corestoraged': file / -name 'corestorage*'

- 2 found it in the recovery folder: cd/usr/libexec/corestoraged

- 3 Started corestoraged in the found folder: ./corestoraged

Mewiki translation page

Mwkiki used a unix command named "find", to locate all files beginning with "corestorage". He found: "/usr/libexec/corestoraged".

Everyone else does NOT have to run the find command. He did it for you.

Go to the /Applications/Utility directory, and double click on Terminal. A terminal window opens, and displays it's command prompt.

He used the change directory command, "cd" to change to the corestoraged "directory". You have to do that too.

At the command prompt, type "cd /usr/libexec/corestoraged" and then hit the return key.

Next he executed the corestorage watcher command, corestoraged with a DOT, then a SLASH and then the name of the watcher and then the return key.

Note the 'd' at the end.

./corestoraged

A useful command to show the state of your file system is "diskutil cs list"

(in terminal, at the command line prompt, enter the three terms then hit the return key.)

/Users/sww(23:05) diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 190432E1-99A3-47DD-848E-72218A6E1861

=========================================================

Name: Macintosh HD

Status: Online

Size: 999695822848 B (999.7 GB)

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

|

+-< Physical Volume 2FB12C54-B8E4-496F-97E8-502975523EFE

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 999695822848 B (999.7 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family C5F58D62-5165-42CB-A6DA-688C43A55189

----------------------------------------------------------

Encryption Type: AES-XTS

Encryption Status: Unlocked

Conversion Status: Complete

High Level Queries: Fully Secure

| Passphrase Required

| Accepts New Users

| Has Visible Users

| Has Volume Key

|

+-> Logical Volume 2D87052F-E6C4-4CEF-90A4-5E43A1ABC986

---------------------------------------------------

Disk: disk1

Status: Online

Size (Total): 999334871040 B (999.3 GB)

Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)

Revert Status: Reboot required

LV Name: Macintosh HD

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

Thanks much for the translation!

Unfortunately, it did not work for me. Like ntrvrs, I was able to follow the steps, but the decryption is still stuck on "estimating time of conversion", and never progressing.

Any further help is greatly appreciated!

To stop the file conversion process, I had to cancel the install (along with the file conversion) and re-install. I was crossing my fingers in the hopes that nothing would be lost from my disk. Nothing was. I can't make ANY guarantees to you that you won't loose anything!!!

The El Capitan installer is named “Install OS X El Capitan”. This program is removed after install finishes. If it is gone, you will have to download it again. The recovery partition tools will let you connect to the app store and download another copy. You will find "/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan" if it has not been removed.

Obtain an 8 or 16 GB thumb drive.

Boot into the recovery partition by holding down the option key while rebooting.

Once the system is up, start the utilities residing there and look for /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan. Download if missing.

Insert thumb drive.

Format the thumb drive using the Disk Utility to format it to HFS+ with a GUID partition scheme, naming it INSTALLER.

Turn the thumb drive into a boot device installer using a Terminal session (double-click on /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Hit "command +" a few times to enlarge terminal text if needed). note: Anytime you type something with spaces in it, each space MUST be prefixed with a backslash. Thus the funny looking command line below interspersed with backslashes. Copy+paste the following command line into the terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/INSTALLER --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction

It will ask for your password. Enter it, hit return and soon you will have a new, bootable install device.

Boot off of the thumb drive (reboot with option key held down) and soon you will see the El Capitan install process unfolding on your terminal. I did not re-request encryption of my disk. When the install is complete, remove the thumb drive and reboot. Good Luck!

I saved a copy of the install file so that I would not have to wait through another download if something went wrong.

A good resource

Hey, On the first terminal window did you run diskutil cs list again? You need to run that after you run ./corestoraged to see the progress.

Also, as for the terminal commands it makes better sense to do the following on the second terminal window:

cd /usr/libexec/

and then run:

./corestoraged

This will give you an empty prompt, that's ok. Just go back to the first terminal window and run: diskutil cs list

Hope that helps 🙂

Tried this script but starting corestoraged wasn't getting the conversion off paused and the other terminal window hung. BUT I then tried going into DiskUtil first and unlocking the Mac hard drive which is encrypted. Now the script works and progress is at 76%. Hasnt moved yet so we will see whether I've got a fix!

I finally gave up on hoping for a patch release to 10.10 and did the "clean install" + Time Machine backup. I was worried about loosing stuff with homebrew but this did the trick for getting homebrew packages linked back up:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23038511