Filevault taking forever to initialize--Normal?

Picked up my brand new MBP yesterday and went through all of the usual preference settings. Set up FIlevault and it started to run (blue screen with spinning icon).
It has been running like that overnight and was still spinning this morning. Is this normal? There is nothing on this computer yet except the OS. Can this be interrupted? Or do I just have to be patient.
Thanks. Very long time Mac user but this is my first new machine in 4 years. Old system is 10.4.11 so never used Filevault before.

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
I don't use FileVault much -- I've used it on a test account to experiment, but that's about it. But since nobody else has answered . . .
No, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes on a home folder with just the default contents. You probably can't interrupt whatever's going on, so will have to force your Mac off, and if it won't restart, you may end up having to reinstall OSX from the disc that came with it.
It would be a good idea to have an Admin account that's not protected by File Vault, so you can use it if there's a problem with the one that is.
Do you really need to run File Vault? For many, encrypting your entire home folder is vast overkill. If you only need to encrypt a few files, it may be much easier to create an encrypted disk image for them, and leave the rest alone.
File Vault also doesn't play too well with Time Machine. See #25 of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions and tell us which of those windows you saw.
If you do want to use it, see the green box there to turn it on, and let us know how far it gets.

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