Re: Xcode install stalls
Re: Xcode install stalls
- Subject: Re: Xcode install stalls
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:24:05 -0700
> On Oct 21, 2014, at 17:20 , Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 16:52 , Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I click "Install" in the App Store app, it creates /Applications/Xcode.appdownload, puts 377 kb - 382 kb, then just stalls. The App Store app never shows it as downloading, but the button says "Installing." I noticed this, decided to restart my Mac and throw away the other Xcode and start over, but the behavior repeated itself.
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> If the MAS app has previously downloaded an app in the background, it never shows it as downloading but the button says “Installing”. Sounds like what just happened to you.
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> When installing a previously downloaded app, the MAS app is going to have to do about the same amount of work as copying the installed app from one place on the disk to another. (Obviously it’s decompressing, etc, too, but the time is going to be commensurate). Since the decompressed Xcode is about 5.5GB, this is going to take a few minutes, during which time nothing will appear to be happening in the MAS app.
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>> Oh, charming. As I was typing this, the file changed to "Xcode.app", and I can launch it, and it has the right build number, but App Store in the search results still says "Installing," and on the app page still says "Install.”
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> At some point the MAS store app has to tell the server that you did install it. This is going to happen *after* the file changes to “Xcode.app”, but today (now that the Xcode store download is there) talking to the server might be really slow.
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> So, it looks like you rebooted while your Mac was in the middle of doing what you asked it do, then you came and swore at the list. Cool.
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> I apologize for sounding harsh (again), if I do (again), but this list isn’t your therapist’s couch.
I think I'm completely justified in assuming the worst, given the dismal quality of Apple's releases lately. It's hardly my fault if Apple is going to conduct a long-running operation without feedback. The file size of the ".appdownload" didn't change at all during that time. What am I supposed to think? When I've tried reasonable remediation measures, I look to other resources to see if there's an answer. That's what I did here. I didn't have time to waste wandering around the building to see if it would someday fix itself; I emailed the list.
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Rick Mann
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