Sep 27
In Snow Leopard if you try to install a program while another is installing you get an error message saying “Waiting for other installations to complete.” But what do you do if the message stays there after the program has finished installing?
Today I was stuck with this message even though there was no installation in progress. The computer won’t’ restart as it wants’ to wait for the update to finish first!
The first option around this is to ‘force quit’ the installer. Press Apple-option-esc then select ‘Software Update’ and ‘Force Quit’.
If that doesn’t work try deleting the following 2 files from your Library/LaunchDaemons.
com.apple.RemoteDesktop.PrivilegeProxy.plist
com.apple.RFBRegisterMDNS_RemoteManagement.plist
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I have this problem. These files do not exist!
Same here. None of the files exists but still hangs
Didn’t work (files are in the /System/Library folder, btw); “sudo killall installd” did. Restart should also resolve it.
Worked well for me, was needed after a crash during Snow Leopard update process. After this trick the installer sailed through very smoothly.
Removing files from “Library/LaunchDaemons” worked for me, thank you very much!
“sudo killall installd” worked
how do I run this command?
Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities and type “sudo killall installd” with no quotes. It will then prompt you for your password. Type it in and it should do it.
‘sudo killall installd’ worked for me!
I just held the power down and restarted, then relaunched the update and it’s working fine :-)
Force quitting and then restarting and then checking for updates again worked for me, too. I didn’t need to go into Terminal. This hang for me happened at the same time that I was doing an update using the App Store App. Both updates stopped working at the same time. This solution fixed both of my problems. BTW I got a “hard disk almost full” message right after the fix. This could have been a definite factor in updates hanging.