Comments on: How to reset the OS X Installer

By: Lion Sucks Sometimes

Lion Sucks Sometimes — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:02:48 +0000

I just held the power down and restarted, then relaunched the update and it’s working fine :-)

By: Frustrated

Frustrated — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:20:37 +0000

‘sudo killall installd’ worked for me!

By: SloaneS

SloaneS — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:11:22 +0000

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.

By: Bryn

Bryn — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:18:15 +0000

how do I run this command?

By: mook

mook — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:43:07 +0000

“sudo killall installd” worked

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:21:53 +0000

Removing files from “Library/LaunchDaemons” worked for me, thank you very much!

By: JB

JB — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:01:14 +0000

Worked well for me, was needed after a crash during Snow Leopard update process. After this trick the installer sailed through very smoothly.

By: stephan

stephan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:48:34 +0000

Didn’t work (files are in the /System/Library folder, btw); “sudo killall installd” did. Restart should also resolve it.

By: ES

ES — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:37:56 +0000

Same here. None of the files exists but still hangs

By: MW

MW — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:26:11 +0000

I have this problem. These files do not exist!