OS X Lion 10.7 Sleep Issue

jgould wrote:

My MacBook Pro has only slept on it's own one time while in it's HengeDock. If I have it out and close the lid, it *seems* to sleep normally. (It usually goes into my bag right after the sleep indicator light indicates that the system has, in fact, gone to sleep. It seems to sleep while it is in my bag as there is no heat that escapses when I open the bag.)

Do you actually wait for the light to pulse or you put in the bag as soon as the light is on (even not pulsing)?

You really should wait for your computer to fully sleep before moving it (because of the hard disk(.

Could the source of my issue be as simple as a constant open connection to a server in a data center in Colorado?

I doubt it. I can make my Mac sleeping while I download files just fine.

I wait for pulsing. Moving the machine while it's running isn't as concern as I've replaced the HDD with an SSD.

I just hit the display sleep time (both times are the same) and no sleep occured...

This is getting really frustrating...

I'm tempted to take the MBP to the genius bar and see if they have any clue...

IMHO. the sleep issues since Lion are some kind of software glitch...in August I was having all kinds of problems with the Lion upgrade on my mid 2010 MBP, i7, 8G notebook...black screen and coma after trying to wake from sleep and all sorts of annoying problems concerning sleep...after putting up with this for a couple of weeks, I put a search into Google and landed on some kind of Wiki software site. I clicked on a link within this site, and all of a sudden some Unix commands were being put into the terminal without my permission and without me having to enter my password. By the time I thought of force quit the whole process was over. From that very day, I have never had any sleep issues or other issues with Lion, and this was before any Lion upgrades. I contacted Apple about this "security breach" and about what happened, and I have tried many times to locate the site again...Unfortunately I have never been able to do so...I was so panicked about what what happening to my computer that I didn't think to mark the page. All I do remember is that the site had a green background. it may have been useful to pass this info along to all of you and to Apple as well....that's why I believe that this is mostly software issue ... still have original LB and components and can kick myself that this resource seems gone forever...

I just got back from the Apple Store, and they took my MBP in to see if it was hardware related as my machine woudn't even sleep on a boot from a known good copy of 10.6.8.

I do agree that this problem is a software issue, but at the same time, it could have been a hardware issue for me. I have no way of knowing if my MacBook Air is exibiting the same symptoms or not, it seems like it is capable of falling asleep on it's own...

Hopefully I'll have some answers as soon as I get my MBP back...

Of course there is always a possibility of something failing with the hardware, but I just wanted to relate my crazy experience...Just to make sure, I had my MBP undergo the hardware test at the Apple store, and everything checked out fine. Right now I think Lion is a great OS, but I don't know what my computer would be doing if I didn't stumble through that Wiki site...good luck, and I hope you get to the bottom of your problem!

Tess888 wrote:

IMHO. the sleep issues since Lion are some kind of software glitch...in August I was having all kinds of problems with the Lion upgrade on my mid 2010 MBP, i7, 8G notebook...black screen and coma after trying to wake from sleep and all sorts of annoying problems concerning sleep...after putting up with this for a couple of weeks, I put a search into Google and landed on some kind of Wiki software site. I clicked on a link within this site, and all of a sudden some Unix commands were being put into the terminal without my permission and without me having to enter my password. By the time I thought of force quit the whole process was over. From that very day, I have never had any sleep issues or other issues with Lion, and this was before any Lion upgrades. I contacted Apple about this "security breach" and about what happened, and I have tried many times to locate the site again...Unfortunately I have never been able to do so...I was so panicked about what what happening to my computer that I didn't think to mark the page. All I do remember is that the site had a green background. it may have been useful to pass this info along to all of you and to Apple as well....that's why I believe that this is mostly software issue ... still have original LB and components and can kick myself that this resource seems gone forever...

Too bad it's too late, but you could have searched in your history.

Well, you're correct...that's what a logical person would do...LOL...I was so disturbed by the terminal comands going into my computer without my permission, that I immediately restored my system from a Time Machine backup made the night before. At the time, I felt that the unsolicited download was a malicious act and never really considered that it would benefit my computer in any way. After the Time Machine restore was complete, any histories of what had happened were gone. Even though I restored my computer with TM, however, I never never had another Lion problem from that moment forward. I don't know how this is possible, and I don't know enough to even guess about it. Previously (with the help of Apple tech support) I had done two other Time Machine restores for permissions problems in Lion, but the sleep issues had always persisted. I really don't understand what the heck I did, but it did happen just as I described.

Just an update to my situation. After taking my MBP into the store and having them check it out, and replace the cabling to the hard drive, it still would not sleep. They booted it off a network volume (I had no clue this was possbile, but hey, that is outside of my area of expertise...) and it slept. The genius initally said that it was probably the 3rd party SSD that is in the machine (It's a OCZ Agility 3 128GB) that was the culprit. I took the machine back later in the day and actually worked with the genius that worked on it. After explaining what I had done, tried, sacrificed and slammed my head against a desk about, we decided to do a clean install of Lion. I think that he was hoping that it would sleep after a clean install and leave me to figure out which peice of software was causing the issue. It didn't sleep.

Right now it's on the bench having the logic board replaced less than 20 days before hte 1 year warranty runs out. I'm not sure what the next step is if replacing the logic board fails to resolve the issue...

It is important to note that I've had quite a few other quirks with this machine that have been there since day one and nothing has really helped to resolve them...

Maybe I'll know more by Saturday...

Thanks For posting this. It fixed my problem. For months I've been trying to figure out why in the world my MBP would not go to sleep while plugged in to the adapter. Sure enough there was a print job that I sent months ago at a printer at the school. My MBP was still trying to send it. What a relief to have things working normal again. Thanks

I have a similar sleep issue that I was hoping someone could shed some light on. After installing some Canon EOS software my issue began. I've deleted all of this software since and hasn't helped.

My problem happens when I attempt to manually put my system to sleep via the Apple dropdown menu, it's delayed now to about 20 seconds. It used to be instantanious.

Today I called Canon and they assured me that their software has nothing to do with it and that their shouldn't be any residual files anywhere. The instructions to uninstall their software is to simply throw away the folder that's found in Applications. Of course Canon also said that they've never heard of any problems like this, but at the same time told me that I do need to update the software since it's not fully compatible with 10.7.x. I want nothing to do with their software at this point.

I have no sharing running at all, have deleted any print Q's and have even disconnected from my network.

Is there anything that I can run in Terminal that would show how long my machine is set to go to sleep when I manually select Sleep under the Apple menu? I know that sounds odd, but just have to ask.

Can I look further?

Thanks for any help.

Solved for me. My problem actually came down to an external iSight camera. Unplugged it would sleep immediately.

THANK YOU to spud! Such a simple answer, how is this not an official Apple solution yet? Now off to sleep for me 😉

CLEAR THE PRINT QUEUE FOR ALL OF YOUR PRINTERS!

That fixed my sleep problem on a MacPro as well. Bravo.

In my case, invoking sleep would put the screen to sleep (black screen) but drives would not spin down and this didn't appear to be a real sleep. Found a print queue trying to send data to the Epson. Deleted it, now the Mac sleeps. In Printer and Fax, the offending printer had a yellow bullet next to the name, that was the sign it was clogged with an old print job.

I had the same problem. Deleting the printer solved it (I did not used the printer anymore, so what the heck, I deleted it).

typing "pmset -g assertions" revealed that the printing process prevented my mac from sleeping.

My printer was preventing my macbook pro from sleeping aswell. Used this software called sleep checker.dmg to find out what was preventing it from sleeping then I deleted it. Hope that helps others too!