After applying the 10.7.3 combo update it now take 30 seconds between the time I select sleep from the menu (or press the power button) on my 2.66GHz Mac Pro. It used to be instant.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Lanny,
(0) You likely have already done this, but verify that you have plenty of free space in your startup disk. If not, Increase disk space.
Also, if you did not use Lion Recovery's Disk Utility to repair your startup disk after your forced shutdown, you may want to consider doing so.
(1) Next, check for "hanging" apps. Here is how I do it:
Quit all apps. Then user Mac's > Force Quit ... menu command to see if anything other than Finder is still running.
On my 10.7.3 Macs, (and on those of some friends with whom I have checked,) Preview, TextEdit, and a few (but not all) other Apple apps can still be running even though the Dock does not show them as launched.
I double click on those "hanging" apps in the Force Quit ... window to make them appear in the Menu Bar. I then manually quit them from the menu bar or Dock. After eliminating the "hangers", my Mac quits faster than if I do not do really quit those apps..
(2) If startup time is also taking longer, I use Lion Recovery's Disk Utility to restore from my latest Time Machine backup.
A full restore (and the subsequent indexing and new TM full backup) takes a long time, so I wait as long as I can tolerate before undertaking this process. However, my Macs shut down and start up much faster after the restore, indexing, and new backups have finished.
Mac Pro Quad Core (Early09) 2.93Ghz OSX 10.7.3 24" LED Cinema Display
MBP 15" i7 (Early'11) OSX 10.7.3 External iSights
13" MBP (Mid'09) 2.26GHz OSX 10.7.3 iBook SE 366MHz OSX 10.3.9
Same problem with me! Disconnecting my external iSight Firewire sleep works instantly.
Thisi a couse of problem:
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It is related when Firewire iSight is connected.
Ok, same symptoms, but I found a different cause (on my mid-2011 Mac mini).
If I have "Receive faxes on this computer" checked for my generic USB faxmodem (in Print and Fax control panel), it consistently takes 30 seconds to sleep.
Unchecked, sleep is instant.
Something confused in the device gubbins?
Well 10.7.4 is out and the bug is still present for me 😟
Guess I need to take a look into getting a developer account to see if it has been logged otherwise it might never get fixed - especially as FireWire iSight Cameras are long since discontinued.
Matthew,
I haven't yet downloaded the 1.4GB update (ugh!) and I'm sad to hear that they haven't fixed the problem that they created.
I have, however, already logged in the problem into the bugtracker. Don't let this stop you from doing similarly. Squeakey wheels may (eventually) get greased!
Ron
10.7.4 bug is still present too.
Still present in 10.8 for me as well unfortunately
Confirmed, bug is present in Mountain Lion, 10.8. Installed yesterday, same problem. 😟
I tried Logitech C525 Webcam borrowed from my friend and it works perfectly, in all programs (PhotoBooth, Messages, Skype and iMovie. HD720 picture quality, autofocus. Microphone works great. Thinking to change iSight for that camera. Also, sleep works instantly and after wake up camera works perfectly.
Then it isn't a bug in the OS but a bug in your install of the OS or in your hardware. I have a late 2011 model that goes to sleep instantaneously when either selecting Sleep from the menu or power button press and selecting sleep or closinig the lid.
Yes, its a bug in OS, because we here are talking about external Firewire iSight Camera. If you connect this camera to your Macbook you will experience same issue. If camera is not connected then it goes to sleep imidiately. There is not issues with sleep delay prior Lion 10.7.3 and now ML 10.8 (from 10.7 there are issues with iSight microphone and Facetime app which are fixed in 10.7.3 but then sleep issue occour).
My opinion is that external iSight is no longer supported for bugfix.
It's a shame if Apple don't want to fix it - I like Logitech stuff but none of their web camera designs look like they belong next to a Mac.
I just want to confirm that this issue exists for me too. I'm running 10.8.0. I'm wondering if the problem exists in a kext somewhere that we could edit and fix. Or maybe it could be done in Terminal?
Still present in 10.8.1 - however with Mountain Lion my computer will now sleep automatically when left unattended which wouldn't happen at all in Lion so that is an improvement. It remains to be seen if Apple will fix the 30 second delay.
Even on my MacPro 3.1 I can confirm the presence of this annoying bug in 10.8.2 . The bug disappears disconnecting the isight firewire. The solution is to throw the isight 😉
Why does it take 30 seconds to sleep after the 10.7.3 update?
