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Mine crashed...but all is fine
My update went smoothly, but I had to force a restart on my machine after 10 minutes of being stuck on the transition screen between the apple logo and the login screen (when it goes blank, blue background). Had no activity indicator, no progress, not even a spinning cursor. After the restart ran fsck twice (no problems found either time) and rebooted. All has been well after. Hope I didn't mess anything up by restarting, but after 10 minutes, I doubt it was doing something. :)