Tried app store, same hang as delta stand alone. it may hang at 10 minutes remaining, may hang at 6 minute remaining but it ALWAYS hangs. leaving for 20-30 minutes even it never resumes. The update is simply not installable. Doing searching on apple support forums several others had problem too. One user resolved by zapping nvram. Exactly how do you erase nvram on clover? with chameleon/chimera it was easy. Clover, I can find no nvram file. it's written to rom itself isn't it? Not that I'm holding breath it'll even work.
I also tried installing update in safe mode.
1/28/15 12:13:05.848 AM syncdefaultsd[695]: ***storageTaskManagerExistsWithIdentifier:withIdentifier failed: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.) UserInfo=0x7fc153625290 {NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.}; {
NSDebugDescription = "The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.";
}
1/28/15 12:13:05.848 AM com.apple.iCloudHelper[303]: ***storageTaskManagerExistsWithIdentifier:withIdentifier failed: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.) UserInfo=0x7fb46520fcb0 {NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.}; {
NSDebugDescription = "The connection to service named com.apple.nsurlstorage-cache was invalidated.";
}
1/28/15 12:13:30.500 AM com.apple.usbmuxd[54]: stopping.
1/28/15 12:13:30.507 AM com.apple.usbmuxd[730]: usbmuxd-344.3 on Oct 13 2014 at 21:10:09, running 64 bit
1/28/15 12:13:51.000 AM kernel[0]: process installd[493] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1068; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 47214
1/28/15 12:13:51.432 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[731]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash.DirectoryService
With a spindump
http://pastebin.com/KKepXXDb
From what I can see the installd process died there.
EDIT
After 4 hours, i've identified the cause. It kept hanging on FSCompressor. But I know I haven't messed with that. The only thing I do mess with is VMCompressor (I turn it off with vm_compressor=1). So I removed vm_compressor=1 from boot args. Installer no longer hangs. wtf? I can only conclude there has to be some kind of typo somewhere in code where FSCompressor is in place of VMCompressor or something so disabling virtual memory compressor SOMEHOW disabled FSCompressor? On a real mac, vm_compressor=1 is stored in nvram so it also explains why users on apple support fixed it with nvram reset. As well as subset of users affected by hang was so low. Not many turn that off. Anyways, yeah. Mystery solved. Apple coders are dyslexic
