App purchases stuck on installing

This has been puzzling me for a few days now. Every time i download something from the App Store whether update or new app it's stuck on installing. I keep killing the storeagent process clearning the caches and the updates folder. Sometimes that works ok but most of the times i have to hard reset the computer as i can't even shut it down. Whenever i try and shut down i get a message that the shutdown was cancelled as an app is installing.... I keep waiting and nothing.
This happened with the iLife apps and XCode. It's very recent, about 2-3 weeks now that i am trying to update and i keep force quiting everything.
OH, and when that does happen the fans start going crazy and in the Activity Monitor i see my zsh prcess going to 100% cpu util.
Anyone know why this may be happenning? Or a possible solution for this? I don't want to re-install everything..
Thanks!

Hey. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a go if it carries on happening.
For now I managed to solve the problem late last night, by removing and re-installing XCode.
At least it seems to be working fine now.
Before re-installing i deleted the directories com.apple.appstore and com.apple.storeagent in $TMPDIR../C and $TMPDIR../T
Then i also emptied the following directories:
rm -rf /private/var/folders/dw/w3mz6fc50z2r4qf72g79j9h0x00gn/C/com.apple.appstore
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore
After that i re-installed XCode and it finished fine.
Either way it does seem to be ZSH that's causing the problem. That's sad cause it just started happening. Not to mention i like ZSH and don't want to switch back to Bash.
Did you try the default ZSH?

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