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I did a Software Update this morning and had 5 things to install:

iPod updater
iSync 1.5
Java 1.4.2
Mac OS X 10.3.5
Security Update 2004-08-09

I kicked it off and left the house. That was at least two hours ago. I got back and everything has a green check mark by it except the OS X update. The progress bar is about 80% done and it says:

Software Update: Installing (Locating the software to update...)

It appears to be stuck. What do I do?? Force Quit it?? I'm afraid it might leave the install in a bad state. Is there a more graceful way to stop it? The "Stop" button is not active.

[wataru]

If it's really stuck, you'll just have to force quit and hope for the best. Do you know which piece of software it got stuck on? You could always manually reinstall it; most of the items in Software Update eventually become available as a regular download from Apple's website.

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It's stuck on OS X 10.3.5.

I downloaded the update directly and I'm trying to install it now - but it's saying the same thing! Of course, now it's doing it in the regular installer window and not Software Update, but it's stuck on the first thing: "locating software to update".

What gives? So now I can no longer update my OS? I'll restart and try again.

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Restart fixed it. Weird. It's optimizing now.