Quick Note on 10.5.8 update install

[MIDI Life Crisis]

It can take a very long time on some machines. DO NOT stop the process!!! It may appear to get hung at 2 minutes - it is NOT hung!

READ THIS:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 4&tstart=0

But the important part of the thread is this:

It's not actually hung. if you pop open a terminal and peek at what it's doing while it seems to be accomplishing nothing, fsevents is mad busy, doing a billion and 1 writes to a receipts/packages.db.

What needs some help is the "2 minutes" line, that winds up taking 15 (for me).

I just noticed something.

It's launching a seperate pkgutil process to update each file in the receipts folder -_-

Each and every file in the receipt file (there's many files per receipt)

Seems to be CodeSigning stuff.

sigh I just hope I don't run out of process numbers before it finishes (its up to Process # 6400 as I write this)

Some codemonkey needs a kick in the bum for this idea!

[NazRat]

When I installed, it seemed to hang at the end so I opened Activity Monitor (sorted by CPU) and indexing processes (the mds stuff with 40%+ cpu usage) were top of the list without any indication in the menu bar that Spotlight was active. Something is being rebuilt, but if it was the full Spotlight index it would have taken much longer on my system. As it was, at about fifteen minutes of '2 minutes to go', I was nervous, but it completed normally.