Q: Mac OX X Lion freeze after wake-up

mine froze on wake up also, but it was, i think, because i had time machine running always so it froze the sleep/wakeup also. do you have time machine? or mobileme? this site mentioned other issues causing freezes also: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1204593 i had also unchecked the security setting to ask for a password when waking and unchecked the graphics choice in the Energy Saver, not sure which help but it seemed to help even without changing the time machine setting. it was really hard to track what was causing freezes so it's hard to know since i tried so many things. but for sure, the freeze while i was on the computer, usually my browser, has stoped with turning off the automatic backups.

I have had this problem since lion was launched. Only found a temporary solution to date. When I do a hard reset and Mac boots up again I close all my programs until only the finder remains then reboot the MacBook. This seems to avoid the freezing problem for a few days but alas it always comes back again. It does not seem to be related to chrome, contacts, MobileMe, auto backup, etc. only program I think may be part of the problem is mail as it has a habit of refusing to shut down and stops the reboot process after a hard reboot.

I too have had the hang problem since upgrading to Lion.  I have called Apple Support and they have walked me through various machinations to clear stuff out, including

- Run the disk utility and repair

- Clear system and user cache

- Complete reinstall of the OS

In each case, the problem has come back.  My hang occurs when the macbook air wakes up from sleep after some long period of time (a few hours).  If I come back after a shorter time, it does not seem to hang.

Symptoms are

- I click on my trackpad, but as soon as I click in the password textbox, I get the flaming beachball of death

- The only recovery I can do is a hard reboot of the system

- After the system comes back up, a bunch of apps get relaunched but some of them I can't get to by clicking on the tool bar.  I need to right click and quit them.  Typically this is Chrome and Mail

It has been now over 2 weeks without a freeze coming out of sleep (Mac Mini Early 2009)

The only change has been to disable bluetooth / trackpad and use mouse.

Hopefully, the fix will come shortly.

Yes, disabling the trackpad has been working for me for more than 4 weeks, but this issue needs to be resolved. I paid for my trackpad and i want to use it.

I tried shutting off automatic backups using Time Machine.  So far so good in that I have not had a hang since I did that.

Ive goit the same problem - wish I'd seen this before I upgraded.  I turned OFF the sleep mode, but still I get a freeze if I leave the machine for a while - overnight for example.  This morning I couldnt even wake the machine from its screensaver slideshow.  I'll try disabling the trackpad and auto backup on time machine to see if that helps...

My problem is resolved.  For what its worth, and in case anyone else has the exact same issue...  I am running Sophos Home Anti-Virus, and time-machine.  What seemed to be hapening was that when time-machine 'conslidates' its backups overnight, Sophos was scanning the files, and the resulting load was making the machine appear to halt. The resolution was to exclude the backup drive from live scanning - which is perfectly safe since all the files on there have already been scanned.  Seemed to work for me, hope it helps someone else...

This solution seems to make sense to me.  I disabled automatic time machine backups and all of my problems went away.  I have Sophos installed so will try excluding the time machine drive from anti virus checking.  I'll then turn time machine auto backups back on and see if the problem goes away.  Thanks!

i will try that too. turning off automatic backups fixed my issue, but i've missed my automatic backups needed it the other day when i made a mistake. so i've excluded my time machine volume from sophos scanning and have turned on automatic backups. hopefully my no freeze days continue.

Martin_w, multiple causes for sure.  Ive got two trackpads (home and work) - neither seem to cause a problem. Ive also seen suggestions that running disk repair does the trick - I did that and "defragged" using disk genius too - it seems to have made the machine faster, for sure.

Thank you Paul, this worked for me also.

Just the same problem here, but I don't use Chrome. So Chrome can't be the culprit.

elisa

Mac Pro 2008 + 27 inch led monitor