Turns out that the installation had finished, but it got stuck booting afterwards. I reset the PRAM (or whatever it is called now) and reset the SMC. Everything is fine now.
If anyone needs even more on Big Sur after reading John’s review, the Ars Technica review is pretty nice. It takes more of a historical slant (Siracusa’s Mac OS X 10.0 review even gets some link love).
This problem that I was having was ultimately fixed in a later extension. The problem that I was having was not so much speed, but that it couldn’t be done at all. There was a terminal command that I had to enter everytime there was a restart to activate the SAMBA server:
It sounds to me like you can connect, but the connection is slow. So, my guess is your system is loading smbfs.kext. But(!), maybe not and maybe it’s slow because the system is using something other than smbfs.kext to manage the SMB connection? You can see if its loaded by running:
kmutil showloaded | grep "smbfs"
If you find it’s not loaded, you can try loading it and see if that fixes your problem.
You may be very sophisticated on the command line, so sorry if I’m over-explaining.
Music production, mostly what would be considered synthwave nowadays. Did a commercial game soundtrack a few years ago (game here, soundtrack there also available on all streaming services, if you’re interested!)
The next musical commercial projects I have are quite far on the horizon, but since Ableton is what I know, I also edit the podcast about writing we hold with two colleagues every fortnight with it (here), and that’s why I need it on a regular basis
No variant specified, falling back to release
176 0 0xffffff7fa06b5000 0x6a000 0x6a000 com.apple.filesystems.smbfs (3.4.1) D17D4216-863F-39C0-9276-D10EB67EDC39 <166 10 8 7 6 5 3 1>
So far, so good. The funny thing is that SMB has improved on my Mac. I did not do anything. I switched back to SMB when mounting my NAS shares. Everything is fine again. I guess…?! Weird. Thanks again!
Not sure if it is the same issue, but I had the same problem on a new Mac Mini. I signed into the Mac App Store, then restarted. When I went to software update, it started downloading again and installed.
installinstallmacos.py is a shell script which will guide you through the process of downloading the official installers directly from Apple’s servers.
Three things to note:
It must be run using sudo installinstallmacos.py (make sure that you have run chmod 755 installinstallmacos.py to make it executable too)
It will download the files to the current directory that you are in, so you probably want to make sure it’s not an iCloud or Dropbox folder.
When done, there will be a folder named ‘content’ that you will want to delete.