OS X Lion 10.7 Sleep Issue

Hey Mahaario,

My Mac is running in German, too, but I don't find these settings. May you explain?

In German it's: Mail ➔ Postfach ➔ Wiederherstellen

Worked fine for me. Hope this helps someone else, too.

Here is one more thing that will cause insomnia, Carbonite.

I have talked to their support but they claim this is a feature and not a bug. They claim that "Mac rules and Mac puts us in a category of "Automatic Backup"" and therefore it SHOULD keep the computer awake?

I will just have to manually start the program once a week or so.

This was my issue as well.

Before anyone starts removing software or further changing the system figure out what is wrong by using pmset -g.

If you want to narrow the pmset results to just the problem area run the command as pmset -g assertions

My 2011 mac mini with 10.7.1 will not sleep after waking it with a magic packet and then waiting the appropriate amount of time accoring to my Energy Saver settings. I have confirmed nothing is preventing this via pmset -g. However, once I connect into the machine via VNC and then disconnect it will sleep on its own once again. Alternativly I can press the sleep button and that works too. Has anyone else had trouble getting their computer to sleep automatically after waking it with a magic packet?

I read through all the posts and the one that helped me mentioned printers. I looked at the installed printers and noticed that one of them was paused with a job waiting. canceled the job and now the sleep problem i had is resolved.

That was me jaske...I found the old printer drivers also cause a lot of BSOD...happy that Lion finally offered an update for my Epson 1280. Too bad this function is automatic and is so OS dependent.

this solved it for me. I deleted a network printer. and it sleeps now.

Thanks very much

this did it. Was Printer Sharing. Strange thing, that Lion was working for a month, and suddenly sleep was no more working. Haven't touched Printer Sharing since years.

Thank you for the tip!! I put my sleepless Macbook Pro in bed 😝

Thanks, worked for me! 😎

It worked for me! cups was preventing from sleeping. The "printer sharing" option was not selected. Still, I have checked and then unchecked it, and my macbook pro started sleeping ok.

thks!

Go to your sharing setting in the sytem prefferences and make sure that bluetooth is off, remote login, remote manaegment, internet sharing and web sharing is all off. File sharing can stay on! Hope it works!

Exactly the same problem here - iMac 27 i5: it wakes up randomly after some time and begins a loop of starting up the disc -> doing some stuff -> taking a pause -> then this sequence starts again and it can go on indefinitely with the monitor always turned off, so it's easy to miss this activity and to let it go for hours.

In my case I didn't identify the cause if this issue yet but:

-a restart helps: this way it works nice till the next unexpected wake up, which could not occur for hours. This makes me think that it could be something that happens during my activity and that isn't running from the startup. But it's just a thought.

-it *may* be related to FaceTime or Parallels, according to the first lines of activity in the system.log; for sure, turning off FaceTime worked at least a couple of times, but other times it happened even with FT off. Same for Parallels (installed/uninstalled) - this latter case could be just a coincidence.

Apart from this, I'm clueless.

OK, in my case I found the reason of my issue: it was the IR remote I use for my AppleTV, which is in the same room. Unfortunately, there's no way to fix it AFAIK: disabling the remote via Preferences > Security doesn't work. The problem shows up with any other Apple remote too.