Q: El Capitan 10.11.1 Install Problems

Luigi Lugmayr at I4U News mentions Safe Boot as a remedy:

Holding down Shift while rebooting starts up OS X in safe mode. It is much slower as hardware acceleration of graphics is switched off. The short wait though paid off. My iMac continued to load to the log-in screen. After log-in, the OS X 10.11.1 update process continued and finished within a couple minutes. After restarting again, the iMac booted up without any problem with OS X 10.11.1 installed.

http://www.i4u.com/2015/10/95937/how-fix-os-x-10111-white-screen

I have done five restauration and try each time the update and it do not work, I hope apple is aware of that...So I have finished to try this update ...Will it affect my laptop because normally I am update everywhere..

Richard Vallée

SAne problem here!! finally it took hours to boot.

after that i could boot on 10.11.1 but after restart it keeps loading forvere in the black screen with the loading bar

I could fix it with the help form another post (can't find it now)

-boot from other partition with OS X, external HD or try with recovery mode (I don't know if you can do this with the recovery partition of OS X)

-go to Library/Extensions from the affected HD and create there a folder called "unsoported"

-move all the extensions to that folder

-restart

It worked for me.

After that I installed java 6 and it broke again, I had to do the same process again.

Same exact issue here.  I eventually "gave up" by restoring the start up disk from a Time Machine back up (booting up with Command R) but that left me with the same exact issue as well!  Finally, I went a step further and did a fresh install of OS X on the drive (also using a Command R boot)  and it finally worked.  I thought I would then have to restore from Time Machine to get all my applications and preferences back, but they all seem to be present and accounted for now without anything else, so who knows.

I will say, the new El Capitan update seems to be about 10GB lighter than the previous one, so that is good for us SSD users.

If you are still under warranty, go to Apple.  Time Machine back to Yosemite and turn off auto updates in App Store.  I tried every suggestion found here in the forums without going into Terminal (hey, I know my limits and abilities...I don't mess with code).

Apple really dropped the ball on this one.

Best of luck!

Tell me about it!

I got a brand new 27" iMac yesterday (it had 10.11 on it) and after upgrading to 10.11.1 a lot of bizarre things started to happen. First it couldn't boot up.

The Applecare rep asked that I reinstall OS X. It reinstalled 10.11. I then upgraded again to 10.11.1. This time it booted up but now I find that my application directory is empty! After about 15 minutes suddenly it wasn't empty.

Click on General in "System Preferences" and I get "Could not load General preference pane". I'm online with AppleCare right now and they are saying they'll replace the iMac (it's less than 1 day old), but it may not be a hardware issue.

I booted in Safe Mode and it comes up with the Applications folder empty again! It has an empty Utilities directory. Thats all!

From the preference pane, I see a lot of 3rd party add ons and would suggest uninstalling

all of them as they may be incompatible and creating bizarre behavior (Java and Flash Player

probably okay to leave in if up to date).

If the bad behavior ceases after that, then add back one by one (making sure first that they are

up to date and compatible) and see when issues begin.  Also do the same with any other apps

you may have installed that don't have settings in System Preferences.

Same exact problem on my late 2013 Mac Book Pro. Installer does not finish. It just locks up with a black screen, white apple logo and a progress bar that is probably 90% completed. Did a fresh install of El Capitain via control R. Same result. What ever happened to "it just works" ???? Oops should have said command R.

What ever happened to "it just works" ????

It died with Steve Jobs, sadly.

Yes, 10.11.1 has 'bricked' my 2010 MacBook Air.

Progress bar stuck at 100%. Am going to leave it overnight... ...since comments suggest it may need time...?

Not sure it will boot into 'safe' mode as the update never appears to have finished?

FYI, my initial issue was given 15 hours to "right" itself to no avail and the restore from Time Machine that ran into the same issue was given 8 hours to fix with no solution.

As you rightly state, post Jobs, Apple is now producing shoddy software just like 'anyone else'...

The situation I ended up in was that my Application directory was empty . So I couldn't delete anything. After two trips to the Apple store lugging the big 27" iMac in and out in one day, I returned the iMac for a full refund. I've personally bought more than 15 Macs over the years and the first personal computer I ever used was an Apple ][ but this is the first time I have had such a disappointing experience.