10.5.7 Macbook sleeps once, freezes second time

Update: When I closed it for about 30 minutes and came back and opened it, it froze with the spinning wheel and needed to be reset.

Apple! Fix this!!

-Matt

This SEEMS to have worked for me. Greatly appreciate your help... it was a problem for such a long time!

Thank you Kai, it worked for me like a charm.

The reason was that I'm using a T-Mobile 3G Stick sometimes, and it automatically creates a new Location for itself called "web 'n walk Manager", in which there are only 3G modem connections available. I noticed it earlier, and to make my everyday work easier, I added Airport too (for having Airport connections even if I forget to change it back manually to the original - "Automatic"). That's the cause, I didn't noticed when last time I plugged in the T-Mobile stick, it automatically changed the location to web 'n walk, and it remained there, with 3G modem and Airport only.

Actually I had this problem right after installing 10.5.7, and somehow it healed itself for a while (probably I changed back the location manually once), and then it came again... 🙂

I'm very happy with this workaround. Thank you very much!

dRm

I talked to an Apple Care Technician on the phone today and he successfully walked me through solving this problem with OSX v. 10.5.7. It is mentioned earlier in this forum, but here are the steps clearly laid out for non-tech types (like myself)...


1. In System Preferences, open Network preferences.

2. Highlight "Ethernet" or "Built in Ethernet".

3. Click the Minus sign ( - ) (at the bottom of the window just above the unlocked lock icon) to delete the Ethernet configuration.

4. Click the Plus sign ( + ) (at the bottom of the window just above the lock icon) then select "Ethernet" from the menu that appears. Then click "CREATE". (a new Ethernet configuration is created in the left section of the window). Then click "APPLY" on the lower right side of the window. Close the window.

5. Sleep the computer by closing the lid. Then wake it up. Then sleep it again. Then wake it up again. Everything should now work fine.

Domo Arigato!!

Same here...
And it fixed the other closely related problem.. 🙂
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2007773&tstart=885&start=150

I take that back, all was well until it slept all night and then BAM whole screen froze.

ducksauz wrote:
* Deleted /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
* Deleted /var/vm/sleepimage
* Re-enabled ethernet(en0) in my Network profile

Reboot, Sleep, Wake, Sleep, Wake, Sleep, Wake

W00t! Fixed.

This fixed it for me, too, on my MBP. Just be sure to enable en0 (ethernet), since enabling en1 or en2 doesn't do it.

Didn't work for me I'm afraid. Still locking up on wake up. Apple, jump in anytime!

SOLUTION: Adding an "Ethernet" service to the current configuration in the "Network" System Preference pane resolved the issue. I was using a Location which had Airport as its only network service.

No other actions were effective or necessary (and I had unfortunately worked through many diagnostic experiments before I recognized that the "freeze on second sleep" was the search term I should have been using.

Thanks for the solution. It works for my wife's macbook. By the way, Apple should change their "Apple care" to "Apple doesn't care". Wifey called the support line today and the rep refused to talk to her at all until she agrees to pay the charges. Very disappointed.

Worked perfectly, Thanks. I love my Mac again!

For those of you like me who had your Network Location set to Automatic, with all the possible connections there, here's what I did to fix it.

I created a new location, put the Airport back at the top of the list. That's it. You'll lose some wireless login info for other networks, but that's generally easy to get bac.

I've tried to do all the things mentioned in this topic, but nothing fixed the problem here.

Someone have any new idea???

does the 10.5.8 update help this problem at all?