I booted up an older Mac this week and decided to put Leopard on it. For cleanliness sake, I wiped the disk first, then put Leopard on fresh from the DVD. All went well and the System Update ran great for all but the 10.5.4 "Combo" update.
It's a 500+MB download and when finished causes your machine to ready for a restart. Before restarting, the installer comes up and about 5% along the way, at "Configuring Installation," the machine hangs. I left it for a day. Came back, restarted. Tried again and same results.
Then came internet searches: this one and this one told me I wasn't alone but were not clear on a solution. I blitzed my /Library/Updates (sudo rm -rf /Library/Updates) and check for system updates, but had no love.
Then I tried the direct link from apple.com/downloads to the combo installer which did the trick.
I'm generally impressed with Apple's attention to detail and surprised that this is happening in the wild and not better covered. Hopefully this will be a helpful datapoint to anyone else seeing the issue.
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