10.10.1 Installing Software Update Stuck

It has been a couple of hours now with my iMac 2010 sitting on "About 4 minutes".
I had a similar experience installing the OS to begin with but this looks different... Restart?

UPDATE:
I reset PRAM (power down, restart holding command+alt+P+R, wait for two startup chimes, then release): it then restarted the update process as expected, but hung again at about the same spot (again I lost the progress bar sometime before it hung).
Next I rebooted into Safe Mode (power down, restart holding Shift until the apple logo and progress bar appear): this time the progress bar remained until it hung, about 40% into the process. Within a minute of hanging, the computer powered itself off (that was new!).
Finally, I powered up again normally, heard the startup chime (I wasn't hearing that originally after restarts from the hang) and it seemed to run quite a bit beyond the point it had locked up at before. I lost the progress bar again though, and a minute or so later, it hung again.
I'm out of ideas......................
NOTE: at no time do I get anything telling me how much time remains. just a simple progress bar (which then disappears some time before it hangs). Why is mine different from yours I wonder?
Also, I hear plenty of normal hard drive activity right up to the point it hangs, then the HD activity stops pretty abruptly. I do hear a few normal "clucks" now and then afterwards like the HD is polling... but no progress on the update. I have waited about 30 minutes so far with no joy...
Next step I guess is to restart using an external drive, and try to reinstall the update manually (from a full download). Hopefully that will work!

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