I've been having an issue since installing Leopard. When I leave it idle, it will freeze. Sometimes, the mouse will bring the display out of sleep but it will be frozen; other times, the display won't even wake up. It's never happened while I have been on the computer but it's happened every single time I've left it for several hours unattended. Everything else works fine (except Logic Node crashes at startup).
I installed Leopard as an archive and install so there shouldn't be any issues with improperly upgraded files. Should I try booting up in safe mode and see what happens? Anyone haven any suggestions? I don't exactly want to put it to sleep every time I'm gone for any length of time.
Octa-core Mac Pro,
Mac OS X (10.5),
250+500GB hd, 3GB ram, AE, BT
I have been having the same problem, but also a bit worse.
If I leave it for 30 minutes orso on sleep, I cannot get it out of standby mode. Not even with the mouse, closing and reopening the lid or whatever.
Also, since Leopard, my Macbook freezes VERY frequently (up to 3 times a day) with a kernel panic message, and every time Leopard says that the kernel was trying to clear memory while memory was already cleared or something. Next time it freezes I will post it here.
I am not doing anything special with my Mac, just surfing the web with safari, listening to music on iTunes or watching a movie with Front Row. Then suddenly internet kicks out and then a kernel Screen of Death.
Well it's been sitting idle all day today in safe mode and no freezes. I still don't know if it's one of my login items or something system-level that was disabled that lets it work. Anyone else find an answer?
Same problem here...I thought could be the memory upgrade...because it was the only thing really changed (I've taken a 40$ 2gigs memory upgrade in two blocks...maybe defective 😉 ?)
but if you say that I'm not the only one, it's definitely a software issue.
I had tha same issue as in an "upgrade" install, as in a "from scratches" install...more or less frequently...
I can't help you either, but I thought I'd chime in and say that this happens to me on a regular basis too. I thought it was because I have an external monitor installed. I sleep my Macbook, try to wake it up, and it doesn't quite go all the way. I can hear the usual hardware sounds that tell me it's waking up, but the external monitor won't kick in, and the built in display is black.
Well I spent all of yesterday in safe mode with no issues. While I was there, I removed Logic Node from my startup items (since upgrading to Leopard, it always force quits right at startup). I don't think that has anything to do with it but I also upgraded my EyeTV software to the latest version. I restarted back in normal mode and let it sit overnight and it didn't freeze. Maybe it was something to do with EyeTV.
I have Leopard installed on four Macs, and three work perfectly. My iMac Intel experiences the problem you note, i.e. after being idle for awhile, it is unresponsive, although it eventually comes to life. Hope to find the cure.
Today has been the worst yet. As I said earlier, it froze when listening to iTunes this morning and froze while I was away for a few hours in the middle of the day. Since then, it froze when I was watching EyeTV this afternoon, when I was taking a shower, and again while listening to iTunes tonight. The last time it it happened, I had already unplugged my EyeTV tuner, M-Audio MIDI interface, and my external FW hard drive. I'm now back in safe mode and hopefully it holds until the next update.
I've experienced a similar problem, since upgrading to Leopard. I bought a new MacBook Pro about 10 days ago, and transferred my 10.4 install; it worked flawlessly. After installing Leopard, I'm encountering these odd freezes (after going to sleep, it starts to "wake up" but then stops... I usually get it to complete the wakeup after opening/closing a few times, and pressing on/off button... at which point I get a message asking if I really want to shut down, sleep, etc.
This problem is accompanied sometimes by a jumpy mouse. Occasionally the problem goes away after a few minutes, but at other times I have to reboot. This is not the Apple brand experience I'm used to. Can anyone from Apple weigh in on this?
I get a freeze (which requires a hard reboot) on my G5 1.8ghz single processor...three times whilst actually using Safari and once whilst in Mail (which is rubbish BTW..still can't send out of one of my accounts..). Looking forward to an update!
I froze, had to reboot, ran disk utilities, no luck, reloaded software, no luck, loaded software as new. Lost everything on computer. Should have had a backup.