I’m get­ting this error when I try to update my iPhone 4 to iOS5:

Word on the inter­net is that it’s because so many peo­ple are try­ing to update their iPhones that the val­i­da­tion servers at Apple aren’t respond­ing fast enough and the upgrade craps out. Keep trying?

In the mean­time, make sure your Mac OS X is up to date with the 10.7.2 update that came out today as well.

Update: Looks like it got far enough to start the upgrade but then crapped out again. Now try­ing to wipe and restore. Advice — pull all your photos/​videos into iPhoto before you upgrade just to be safe.

Now see­ing this:

Fol­lowed by this:

And now it restarted back to the way it was before I started upgrad­ing. Weird.

Update #2: Back to the “The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An inter­nal error has occurred.” loop. Going on 15+ attempts.

Update #3: After about 20 tries, all of a sud­den the iPhone did a com­plete wipe and restore from the pre­vi­ous backup (2 min­utes ear­lier). When it came back to life it was run­ning iOS5. Now it’s in the process of adding my apps back, one by one.