OS X Lion 10.7 Sleep Issue

I also had problem whit getting my Lion to sleep but read on a forum that when your power suply cabel is connected and you close the lid the mac book wount sleep cos it is transfering the picture to anoter screen. Good function when you watch moovies from your mac on a T, and the mac screen wont light up the room. but if you disconect the charging connector from your mac and then close the lid NOTE first disconect then shut the lid it works for me.

But I notise now if i had Transmission running and downloading my work files it will first put the image on my second screen and then first go to sleep. So when i stopped the transfer on transmission and then closed the lid it got direct to sleep. I had done all internet sharing off and I have not in my console a snitch and I tryed to reset the battery and booting the SMC and nothing of thes helped only disconecting the cable helped.

Hopfully this helps somone.

Please read my solution here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3810249

is there a way to leave internet sharing on and still allow it to go sleep when you close the lid? it is quite annoying to have to remember to turn it off everytime you want to make it go sleep. I remember in previous OSX versions did not have this problem with internet sharing

bishibashi wrote:

is there a way to leave internet sharing on and still allow it to go sleep when you close the lid? it is quite annoying to have to remember to turn it off everytime you want to make it go sleep. I remember in previous OSX versions did not have this problem with internet sharing

Well, even a Mac Pro can't sleep with Internet Sharing on (in Lion), when explicitly choosing “Sleep”, so I don't expect anything to work for that.

FWIW

This is what I did to fix my MacBook Pro's sleeping sickness

I have a copy of Disk Warrior and I backup the laptop to an external Firewire drive. So I booted from it, opened DW from it and got it to rebuild the Directory of the MBP and then I fixed all permissions.

Re-started. Fixed and faster than it has been in months. I probably should repeat thise sequence every few months but I wanted those of you with DW or thinking of buying it..it fixed the MBP.

Good luck

john buck1 wrote:

FWIW

This is what I did to fix my MacBook Pro's sleeping sickness

I have a copy of Disk Warrior and I backup the laptop to an external Firewire drive. So I booted from it, opened DW from it and got it to rebuild the Directory of the MBP and then I fixed all permissions.

Re-started. Fixed and faster than it has been in months. I probably should repeat thise sequence every few months but I wanted those of you with DW or thinking of buying it..it fixed the MBP.

Good luck

Yes, I'm convinced Disk Warrior is the best tool for repairing disks.

That was the solution. In my case it didn't show 18 but 20, but clearly a printer was involved. I checked in Printer and Scanner System Preferences and printers showed as in use that were not even connected. Deleted them from the list, now Sleep works normally again. Thanks very much!

yea my issue was printer related as well, status was 'in use' as other posters have mentioned. I checked the printer queue there was something in there deleted it. Status went to 'offline' how it should be ... closed the lid then started working! Thanks for your help guys!

this thread helped immensely... my iMac wouldn't sleep because there was an unprinted document still in queue. Before deleting any of your printers as some here have suggested, check each one of them to see if there's something in the queue. If there is, simply kill the print job.

This worked immediately - my iMac can now sleep at night 🙂

Thanks to all contributors!

p.s. - Apple should make OS X notify us of something like this. If you try to put your Mac to sleep and it cannot due to this (or any other) issue, it should simply say so.

IT. WORKED. I was worried that the graphics card I installed would burn out because it is technically unsupported and seemed to be running full blast all the time. BUT I realized my entire system was in fact not sleeping correctly so it turns out, everything runs smoothly now! Including the ATi R6670 card I plopped in for $150 less than the Mac-Optomized 5770! 😮 Thanks so much!:)

Jcarpio, that was simply genius!

I run pmset -g and I discovered that I had an outstanding printing job (I have an Epson R2000 that I use over Wi-Fi) and now my MBP sleeps!

Thanks!

My solution is:- turn off the Shared network settings for Internet and/or bluetooth. Network Sharing being on disables system sleep mode. Otherwise, the screen will still go off when the lid shuts, but the system keeps running leading to a hot laptop in your bag !

I got same problem from yesterday. have reset PRAM, SMC and fresh install OS, but it doesn't help anything.

I think Lion have some bug with graphic kext.

@spud3, thank you! 🙂 As you wrote the issue was fixed by turning off internet sharing! (System preferences - Sharing - Internet sharing - Off ) 😎

How come Apple company is not solving our problem. I called them many times but they never solved my sleeping issue.