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Q: My Mac don't go sleeping since Lion Update

Hallo Apple Fans,

 

well i have a Problem since i updated to Lion. Normally my Mac go sleeping after 30 Minuten. That doenst work anymore. Nothing happens, my Mac stay awake. Only the TFT goes in Standby - but my Mac is still running :-(

 

It always works with Snow Leo with no Problems.

 

I checked the Console, everything looks fine.  Also did a PRAM Reset.

 

Any guys out there, who has the same Problem under Lion? Any Solutions?

 

Thanks for your helping!

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 3:15 PM

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  • by Vival,

    Vival Vival Sep 15, 2011 5:09 AM in response to boz0
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    Sep 15, 2011 5:09 AM in response to boz0

    Thanks for the Software Tipp. I Know this Tool, but it is Not useable for me. Iam also using my Mac mini for tv Recording with elgato Eyetv. Normally my Mac Wake up automactically, Record the tv Show, then automacically go to Sleep.

     

    With your Tool, you only can say, Mac, go to Sleep After xx minutes. Wehn is say, go to Sleep After 30 minutes, and the tv Show Görs 60 minutes, the Mac Görs Sperling dring Recording. Bad idea.

     

    I Need a possiblity to say, if mac Idle is for 30 minutes then go to Sleep. The Tool have to check, if Idle is true.

  • by Actuality,

    Actuality Actuality Sep 23, 2011 12:09 PM in response to andysd
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    Sep 23, 2011 12:09 PM in response to andysd

    I've had the same...

    Listed by owning process:

      pid 21: [0x0000012c00000015] PreventSystemSleep named: "org.cups.cupsd"

     

    Deleted an old printer and suddenly there's nothing preventing sleeping.

  • by chinarut,

    chinarut chinarut Sep 30, 2011 6:10 PM in response to boz0
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    Sep 30, 2011 6:10 PM in response to boz0

    that was it!!   for me it had to do with "Printer Sharing"

     

    I used the "pmset -g assertions" and noticed there was 2 processes, one of them was cups (related to printing)

     

    I toggled "Printer Sharing" off and our iMac is able to go to sleep - hallelujah!  this issue was driving me nuts as rebooting the machine didn't make a difference - so it has something to do with the way the printer sharing settings carried over from 10.6.x

     

    I've toggled Printer Sharing back on and another "pmset -g assertions" doesn't show any processes and sure enough it's able to go to sleep.

     

    I'll see how long this lasts and at least know if it does happen again, that this is likely to be the culrpit.

  • by jbuczny,

    jbuczny jbuczny Oct 10, 2011 12:50 PM in response to boz0
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    Oct 10, 2011 12:50 PM in response to boz0

    Hi,

     

    Processing # pmset -g assertions and killing a PID which prevented from sleep when my computer was plug-ined helped.

     

    J

  • by Ali Hasan3,

    Ali Hasan3 Ali Hasan3 Oct 24, 2011 4:40 AM in response to jbuczny
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    Oct 24, 2011 4:40 AM in response to jbuczny

    Friends - I made a seperate post about this issue and then found this forum

     

    I have a MBP (SSD) that wouldn't wake up after sleeping if MagSafe was plugged in

     

    This solution worked for me -

     

    I went into SYSTEM PREFS and noticed that I had PRINTER SHARING active on an HP printer that I never use - in addition, I had 3 HP printers installed, but I never use any of them

     

    I deleted the three HP Printers, turned PRINTER SHARING off on all printers and also went into SECURITY SETTINGS and DISABLED INFRARED REMOTE

     

    Lastly, I also made sure that FILE SHARING and all other types of NETWORK SHARING were off, which they were

     

    Fingers crossed, I hope it stays this way!

  • by jbuczny,

    jbuczny jbuczny Oct 24, 2011 4:55 AM in response to Ali Hasan3
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    Oct 24, 2011 4:55 AM in response to Ali Hasan3

    Hi,

     

    Aparently the "sleeping" problem is usually caused by "active" printer or its drivers. This suggest a lack of full compatibility between Mac OS X and printers drivers. In my case the problem was associated with Brother printer.

     

    J

  • by Ali Hasan3,

    Ali Hasan3 Ali Hasan3 Oct 24, 2011 4:56 AM in response to jbuczny
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    Oct 24, 2011 4:56 AM in response to jbuczny

    jbuczny -

     

    Again, my solution could be premature, but the one BROTHER DRIVER I have doesn't seem to be causing the problem - deleting my HP PRINTER profiles definitely made a difference

     

    Anyways - many solutions to a similar problem - lol

  • by LROCfromIndy,

    LROCfromIndy LROCfromIndy Oct 31, 2011 5:24 PM in response to jbuczny
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    Oct 31, 2011 5:24 PM in response to jbuczny

    My problem was my iMac not wanting to sleep. I had just loaded Lion and also the October Apple update of all printer drivers.  When Sleep was clicked the machine shut down for about 10 seconds , then restarted.  If I just left the machine ON, it would sleep per the settings under Preferences-Energy Saving, but then awake again after about 15 minutes.  Finally I shut down the iMac, the printer and the scanner. Disconnected the usb cables.  Restarted the iMac.  Plugged in the usb cables. Turned the printer and scanner ON.  Made sure there was not a que of items to be printed.  After this, the iMac went to sleep properly.

  • by Ali Hasan3,

    Ali Hasan3 Ali Hasan3 Nov 2, 2011 12:39 AM in response to Ali Hasan3
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    Nov 2, 2011 12:39 AM in response to Ali Hasan3

    Been one week now and everything is still awesome - the solution above worked well for me

  • by Vival,

    Vival Vival Nov 2, 2011 1:47 AM in response to Ali Hasan3
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    Nov 2, 2011 1:47 AM in response to Ali Hasan3

    Hi Ali. How die you delete your Printer Profile? Only by deleting the Printer entry in the System preferences/printers? Or somthing else, for example directly in the Lib Folder.

  • by Ali Hasan3,

    Ali Hasan3 Ali Hasan3 Nov 2, 2011 1:54 AM in response to Vival
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    Nov 2, 2011 1:54 AM in response to Vival

    Viv -

     

    No need to touch your library folder

     

    Open SYSTEM PREFERENCES and click on PRINT & SCAN - your printers will be on the left-hand side - just delete whatever printers you're not using - also, click on SHARING PREFERENCES as that will be on the right-hand side, and I would recommend turning off any sharing that you're not using

     

    BTW - disabling the remote (the other thing I did) could also solve the problem outright - I just deleted my HP printers because I don't use them anymore

     

    Anyways - hope that answers your question

  • by Vival,

    Vival Vival Nov 2, 2011 4:44 PM in response to Ali Hasan3
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    Nov 2, 2011 4:44 PM in response to Ali Hasan3

    Hi Ali - thanks for explaining. Well, ok i made everything you did. It doenst work for me :-( Holy sh.., this Problem really is a pain.

  • by LROCfromIndy,

    LROCfromIndy LROCfromIndy Nov 4, 2011 4:40 PM in response to Vival
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    Nov 4, 2011 4:40 PM in response to Vival

    I did not fuss with anything in the system library etc. (I am too much a novice) but, I would think that because I downloaded an Apple printer update dated Oct 27, their download would have done some houskeeping.  See Apple downloads.

  • by PaulHenderson,

    PaulHenderson PaulHenderson Nov 12, 2011 4:34 AM in response to Vival
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    Nov 12, 2011 4:34 AM in response to Vival

    Ditto on the print queue problem here. Cancelled the a job left in the queue to a shared printer and now my MacBook Pro is sleeping as well as ever.

    Thanks all.

  • by cingulomaniac,

    cingulomaniac cingulomaniac Nov 15, 2011 9:02 AM in response to Vival
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    Nov 15, 2011 9:02 AM in response to Vival

    Unfortunately, my MBP is still not falling asleep.  Forcing it by shutting the lid or through the Apple menu works, but my Energy Saver prefs are not acknowledged, either plugged in or on battery.

     

    pmset -g assertions shows this:

     

    ChargeInhibit                           0

    PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep             0

    PreventUserIdleSystemSleep              0

    NoRealPowerSources_debug                0

    CPUBoundAssertion                       0

    EnableIdleSleep                         1

    PreventSystemSleep                      0

    DisableInflow                           0

    DisableLowPowerBatteryWarnings          0

    ExternalMedia                           0

     

    And I have nothing in my printer queues.  I have no File Sharing or any other preferences turned on that have been mentioned here.  This has been an issue since I clean installed Lion a few months ago.

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