Yosemite upgrade stuck at x minutes for 10+ hours

Hi,
This is for the 6th time I am trying to upgrade.
It was a terrible idea, never faced it in my happy 10 years using a mac.
I wanted to upgrade it, it downloaded and now trying to upgrade for 14 hours straight.
The machine is running from last 40 hours, it is a Mid 2010 macbook pro.
Simply it is stuck at 4 minutes ( this is new, earlier it stuck at 3 minutes for 6 hours ) and log quota exceeded.
Please help.
Yes, I have tex, homebrew all these sort of stuff installed.
I promise never to upgrade to a free OS ( unless it is my kubuntu from where Iam typing it in ) again.
But for this time please help.
I have upgraded 4 times on different macs, never ever had this much trouble.
When it would end?

I finally decided that enough it enough, and cleaned the disk drive and installed Mac OS X.
I could back up data, and that was good enough for me.
Everything is fine.
I suggest anyone facing the issue should do the same.

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