Q: Lately my Mac won't stay asleep. Wakes up on its own.
I am running Mavericks OS 10.9.5. Every night, I would put my Mac to sleep usually using a Hot Corner. No problems, no waking up in the middle of the night. In the morning, I just tap my trackpad and it would wake up.
It seemed it was no more than 3 nights ago and I woke up in the middle of the night because the monitor was on. I did not wake the computer. I thought it was just a fluke, but it's done it every night now. I did a few tests, like turning off my router, not using the Hot corner, but using the keyboard to Sleep. I unchecked the Lan wakeup option - although I'm sure it was checked before and working fine. But, I don't need to remotely wake it up anyway.
I can't think of anything new that I have done.
I don't know how to troubleshoot this issue. I tried looking through the Console logs, but there's just too much information there!
I have a Mac Keyboard - usb plugged directly into MiniMac. I have a Trackpad which is bluetooth.
I used to also have my external drive connected, but in the past couple of days it's been off! (maybe I should turn it on?)
It was working fine before.
I did read a post about something similar at iMac waking up on its own
I followed Linc Davis' Terminal Instructions and pasted Terminal results.
Does anyone -- Linc Davis are you there? -- Know what's going on and how I can fix it???
Thanks for help!!
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| 1/11/15, 10:04:32 PM PST SlowResponse | Kernel: Response from powerd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 12928 ms |
Sleep/Wakes since boot at 1/11/15, 7:55:17 AM PST :11 Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:8
| Time stamp Domain | Message | Duration | Delay |
| ========== ====== | ======= | ======== | ===== |
| 1/11/15, 10:09:33 PM PST Sleep | Software Sleep pid=45617: Using AC | 37 secs | |
| 1/11/15, 10:10:01 PM PST Timedout | PMConnection: Response from com.apple.apsd timed out (powercaps:0x0) | 28000 ms | |
| 1/11/15, 10:10:01 PM PST WakeRequests | Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=7172] | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:10:01 PM PST WakeRequests | PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=7172.00 | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:10:10 PM PST Wake | Wake [CDNVA] due to EHC2 EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC | 826 secs | |
| 1/11/15, 10:10:10 PM PST SlowResponse | Kernel: Response from powerd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 28006 ms |
Sleep/Wakes since boot at 1/11/15, 7:55:17 AM PST :12 Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:0
| Time stamp Domain | Message | Duration | Delay |
| ========== ====== | ======= | ======== | ===== |
| 1/11/15, 10:23:56 PM PST Sleep | Software Sleep pid=45617: Using AC | 15 secs | |
| 1/11/15, 10:24:02 PM PST SlowResponse | PMConnection: Response from com.apple.apsd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 5368 ms | |
| 1/11/15, 10:24:02 PM PST WakeRequests | Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=7195] | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:24:02 PM PST WakeRequests | PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=7194.63 | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:24:11 PM PST Wake | Wake [CDNVA] due to EHC2 EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC | 316 secs | |
| 1/11/15, 10:24:11 PM PST SlowResponse | Kernel: Response from powerd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 4172 ms |
Sleep/Wakes since boot at 1/11/15, 7:55:17 AM PST :13 Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:0
| Time stamp Domain | Message | Duration | Delay |
| ========== ====== | ======= | ======== | ===== |
| 1/11/15, 10:29:27 PM PST Sleep | Software Sleep pid=45617: Using AC | 12 secs | |
| 1/11/15, 10:29:30 PM PST SlowResponse | PMConnection: Response from com.apple.apsd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 2970 ms | |
| 1/11/15, 10:29:30 PM PST WakeRequests | Clients requested wake events: None | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:29:39 PM PST Wake | Wake [CDNVA] due to EHC2 EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC | ||
| 1/11/15, 10:29:39 PM PST SlowResponse | Kernel: Response from powerd is slow (powercaps:0x0) | 4204 ms |
Total Sleep/Wakes since boot at 1/11/15, 7:55:17 AM PST :14
1/11/15, 10:52:53 PM PST Showing all currently held IOKit power assertions
BackgroundTask 0
PreventDiskIdle 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
InteractivePushServiceTask 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
NetworkClientActive 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 96(hidd): [0x0000000a000002b2] 10:43:34 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
| Timeout will fire in 10781 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease |
id=500 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1/11/15, 8:05 AM description=EHC2 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
id=501 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1/11/15, 8:05 AM description=EHC1 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
id=503 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=12/31/69, 4:00 PM description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBTrackpadDevice
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Posted on Jan 11, 2015 11:01 PM
Thanks for the links Eric. They did help.
After a lot of research and testing different things with my set up, I have gotten the behavior to stop. I think I narrowed the issue down to my MacMini being connected to my newertech ministack max which I have an external drive, external usb hub, and external optical drive. I had it connected via Firewire port and I think it got loose. I was checking all my connections and it felt loose when I removed it. After all the testing, I left it disconnected via firewire, because it has to be connected via usb for the optical drive.
Funny thing for me is that it was causing the MacMini to wake up even when the ministack main power was Off! I guess it kept checking it or something via the firewire. Off or On the usb connection doesn't seem to cause this. It might have been because it was so loose, because it seemed to not do it when I made sure it was nice and snug. But, I removed it because I don't know how it got loose and it really isn't needed. the usb 3 connection is fast enough for me.
Thanks. Maybe this information will help another user...someday!
Posted on Feb 3, 2015 3:12 PM