OS X Lion 10.7 Sleep Issue

Thanks for the link, but it is not relevant for my situation: my MBP refuses to sleep when the lid is closed, even if the secondary screen is switched off. The KB mentions that the screen must be switched on for clamshell mode. I really don't see why a machine should stay awake when the lid is closed and the secondary screen is switched off.

Also, until Lion, this has worked as I expected: the machine sleeps when the lid is closed and the secondary monitor is switched off...

Worked for me - was driving me a bit insane after the Lion upgrade ...

Active Profiles:

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

hibernatemode 0

disksleep 10

womp 0

networkoversleep 0

sleep 0

powerbutton 1

ttyskeepawake 1

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

autorestart 0

panicrestart 157680000

displaysleep 30

Culprit in my case was:

0 82 1 0 7:35pm ?? 0:00.06 /usr/libexec/InternetSharing

Switched it off in preferences - thanks!

Message was edited by: Perapoika (Oops, screen capture was AFTER I switched Internet Sharing off ... it did say sleep was being prevented by PID 82)

Let me add that my MBP does sleep through a manual menu sleep, it is an automatic sleep through closing the lid that does not...

yes, that seems to work, but it's not a fix...it's a workaround. No reason we should have to disbale internet sharing.

I had this problem but I managed to solve it and have my MBP sleeping again.

I tried resetting both SMC and PRAM but it did not work. Even if I had almost every "sharing" unchecked (System Preferences -> Sharing), I checked every "sharing" box (except XGrid), and then unchecked the sharing I was not interested in.

Now it works again. So:

1. Go to System Prefences, Sharing

2. Check every box;

3. Uncheck the boxes you are not interested in.

4. Apple -> Sleep: it should work.

Congratulations to Apple for this weird bug.

I had the same problem with my MBP. Checking the console did it for me to find yet another culprit other than little snitch: LCC (Logitech Control Center) daemon for my mouse. After I uninstalled LCC, my MBP would go to sleep again via either method: closing the lid oder using the apple-menu command. 🙂

I apologize if this has already been mentioned ... I did not read all 9 pages of the thread. I solved my sleep issue by using the command

pmset -g assertions

to see which process had set PreventSystemSleep. In my case, I saw

Listed by owning process:

pid 20: [0x0000012c00000014] PreventSystemSleep named: "org.cups.cupsd"

This is the print driver. Sure enough, it thought that it was printing something. As soon as I deleted the item that it thought that it was printing, the problem went away. I could have also fixed it by actually printing the item, but it was there because I forgot to hit the PDF option and inadvertandtly queued an item for the real printer.

This worked for me. I turned ALL sharing on, rebooted, then turned ALL sharing off, then rebooted. So far, so good!

Sorry to hear it didn't work. i did feel compelled to "pile on" re your Lion comment. If it weren't for the disk encryption feature, I'd roll back to Snow Leopard. I've had so many problems with Lion that it's starting to feel like Apple has lost its mojo - the Lion experiece is reminiscent of Windows ME. Sigh...

I think that there are a couple of morals to the story of a 9-page thread on sleep problems in Lion.

One of them is that sleep is complicated, and there are many reasons why the system might not sleep. This is touched on in a support article in the support website, but it's woefully incomplete. I suspect that many of the sleep issues may not have anything to do with Lion, just as mine had nothing to do with Lion.

As for problems in Lion . . . I'm in no position to speculate about whether it's "worse" than any other release. Yes, there are lots of posts here in the forum, on various topics. But look at the number of people who have upgraded to Lion. Is the traffic here any heavier than it has been for previous upgrades? I don't know; just exploring the issue. It would be interesting to see some actual statistics about how many people had problems related to their upgrade to Lion, compared with previous releases. I don't expect to ever see anything that objective.

Any new release of anything is guaranteed to cause problems for a subset of the peole who install it. Personally, I continue to suffer from a problem that my wireless connection doesn't restore after a wake from sleep, a problem that was introduced in a previous upgrade, fixed in that upgrade, then regressed with Lion. It ittitates me. But I'm not ready to write off Apple just yet.

jcarpio wrote:

SOLVED:

if your mac is not sleeping properly (mine was not sleeping only when the power was plugged in) do this:

open terminal:

run pmset -g (you'll get an output similar to this)

Active Profiles:

Battery Power -1

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

womp 0

autorestart 0

halfdim 1

sms 1

panicrestart 157680000

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 10

sleep 0 (imposed by 18)

hibernatemode 3

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 10

acwake 0

lidwake 1

see the line "sleep 0 (imposed by 18)"? that means pid 18 is forcing sleep to be disabled, that's what the zero 0 means.

now do "ps -ef |grep -e 18" and find out what 18 is. mine was cupsd or internet printing. in preferences, print and scan, i unchecked, share this printer on the network.

i re-ran pmset -g and got:

Active Profiles:

Battery Power -1

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

womp 0

autorestart 0

halfdim 1

sms 1

panicrestart 157680000

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 10

sleep 10

hibernatemode 3

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 10

acwake 0

lidwake 1

put the mac to sleep and it worked just as expected!

Solved it for me. The sleep was prevented by an accidental print to a disconnected printer.

Anton-Junlens-MacBook-Pro:~ antonjunlen$ pmset -g

Active Profiles:

Battery Power 1

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

standbydelay 4200

standby 0

womp 1

halfdim 1

panicrestart 157680000

gpuswitch 2

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

sms 1

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 10

sleep 0 (imposed by 30)

hibernatemode 3

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 10

acwake 0

lidwake 1

26 99 30 0 7:27PM ?? 0:00.51 HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102 ...... bla bla bla....

removed the document from the print queue and ... the computer took a nap.

Yes thanks - checking and then unchecking all the sharing items worked a treat.

Just for completion: I got my issue solved as well.

Had a problem with sleep only when Mail was running. Even after clean install. Whether plugged or unplugged was not important.

What solved it was an option in Mail.

Mail ➔ Account ➔ Restore (Hope these are the English terms; my Mac is running in German)