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macOS Catalina installation hang on 100%

We have new MacBook Pro´s T2 (Out of the box) with pre-installed macOS 10.14.

We tried to install macOS 10.15 from the Recovery Mode with an external disk.

For the deployment i use startosinstall:

/Volumes/image/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --agreetolicense --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ --installpackage mycustom.pkg 


This works fine and very fast but sometime the installation hang on 100% and does not continue.


  • NVRAM/SMC Reset does not fix the problem
  • A second installation also not work


Anyone of you had this issue with MacBooks (not related to the model) ?


Oct 31 09:22:05 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Did do boot system files install with error 0 which, if any, we ignore (best-effort)

Oct 31 09:22:05 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Did do boot system files install with error 0 which, if any, we ignore (best-effort)

Oct 31 09:22:10 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: UpdatePreboot: Error among all processed users was 0

Oct 31 09:22:10 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: UpdatePreboot: Error among all processed users was 0

Oct 31 09:22:10 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: UpdatePreboot: After copying error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:22:10 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: UpdatePreboot: After copying error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro efilogin-helper[753]: [_resourcesFromCompletedOperations:1732]: ERROR: sound data is missing !

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: UpdatePreboot: After rendering EFILoginInterfaceGraphics FileNamesAndDataObj=(NullIsError)=0x7fe788d3dac0 ItemCount=10

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: UpdatePreboot: After rendering EFILoginInterfaceGraphics FileNamesAndDataObj=(NullIsError)=0x7fe788d3dac0 ItemCount=10

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: UpdatePreboot: Error among all processed admin users was 0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: UpdatePreboot: Error among all processed admin users was 0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: UpdatePreboot: Exiting Update Preboot operation with overall error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: UpdatePreboot: Exiting Update Preboot operation with overall error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro storagekitd[657]: DM Message: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Read into buffer efiDriverData = (nil=error) obj=0x7fe788d3cad0

Oct 31 09:22:12 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Read into buffer efiDriverData = (nil=error) obj=0x7fe788d3cad0

Oct 31 09:28:38 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Did do boot system files install with error 0 which, if any, we ignore (best-effort)

Oct 31 09:28:39 MacBook-Pro opendirectoryd[231]: [session] an error of 1003 'Unable to open create session' occurred

Oct 31 09:28:39 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: UpdatePreboot: Error among all processed users was 0

Oct 31 09:28:39 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: UpdatePreboot: After copying error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:28:45 MacBook-Pro efilogin-helper[834]: [_resourcesFromCompletedOperations:1732]: ERROR: sound data is missing !

Oct 31 09:28:45 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: UpdatePreboot: After rendering EFILoginInterfaceGraphics FileNamesAndDataObj=(NullIsError)=0x7fe788e38570 ItemCount=10

Oct 31 09:28:45 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: UpdatePreboot: Exiting Update Preboot operation with overall error=(ZeroMeansSuccess)=0

Oct 31 09:28:45 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: PackageKit: Preboot: EnsureRecoveryBooter: Read into buffer efiDriverData = (nil=error) obj=0x7fe78a838ed0

Oct 31 09:29:02 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: Progress Error: Install packages posted more than 100% progress

Oct 31 09:29:03 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: Progress Error: Install packages posted more than 100% progress

Oct 31 09:29:03 MacBook-Pro OSInstaller[656]: Progress Error: Install packages posted more than 100% progress

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Posted on Oct 31, 2019 4:50 AM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2019 5:48 AM

Update: it seems SMC reset fix this problem...

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