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Wake reason: EHC1

Hello,


I've been having a lot of sleep problems with my mac. It won't go to sleep properly when I close the lid.

I've run syslog |grep -i "Wake reason" in the terminal. and got this log.


May 4 20:50:57 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:51:26 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:51:55 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:52:21 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:52:50 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:53:19 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:53:48 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:54:16 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:54:45 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:55:14 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:55:42 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:56:11 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:56:40 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:57:09 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:57:38 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:58:06 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:58:35 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:59:04 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 20:59:33 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1


It goes on way longer but it is all the same. Now I know EHC1 means that some usb device is waking my mac right? But there is no USB device connected.

Does anyone know a fix for this? I've done all the basic things like disabling all the sharing stuff and "wake for network access".


Thanks if you are trying to help!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on May 5, 2012 9:47 AM

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10 replies

May 5, 2012 5:12 PM in response to Linc Davis

Apr 30 01:15:42 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Apr 30 09:20:06 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

Apr 30 12:05:10 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

--- last message repeated 2 times ---

May 1 08:24:23 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 1 15:13:33 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

May 1 20:59:10 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 75 times ---

May 1 22:44:48 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 1 23:05:06 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 2 times ---

May 2 12:16:15 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 2 12:31:25 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 2 12:57:26 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 2 21:37:46 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 3 06:56:50 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 3 07:57:57 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 3 10:10:36 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 3 13:25:59 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 3 19:45:41 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 3 23:34:05 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 3 23:36:31 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 3 23:42:54 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 08:18:15 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC2 EHC1

May 4 12:18:47 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 15:59:03 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 4 16:26:57 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 17:36:48 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 4 17:40:46 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

May 4 17:42:52 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 4 20:45:41 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 79 times ---

May 4 21:23:59 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC2 EHC1 (User)

May 4 23:21:29 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 21 times ---

May 5 17:18:38 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 5 17:32:23 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 84 times ---

May 5 18:33:49 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen EHC1 (User)

May 5 18:34:14 Thijs-Nieuwkoops-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1

--- last message repeated 720 times ---



May 5, 2012 5:28 PM in response to Faray

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested.


Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros (do this only if you know how to restore, and you have at least two independent backups.) Don’t erase the Lion recovery partition, if present.

May 20, 2012 1:45 PM in response to Linc Davis

I think i've solved it. I found out that for some reason "coreaudiod" was the problem ( found out with pmset -g assertionslog ). After booting the laptop in safemode(holding shift while turning on the power) and restarting the computer(was suggested on another forum) it seemed to be solved.


Finally my computer can get the rest it needs 😀.

Nov 1, 2014 12:41 AM in response to Faray

How about this one?

Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro:Application Scripts lukaszgebel$ syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message Req Wake

Oct 31 11:30:13 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 11:30:23 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACDetach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 11:30:30 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 11:30:32 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 1170.145535: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 11:31:27 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 11:31:38 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Oct 31 11:31:41 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 11:31:43 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 1237.502098: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 11:57:23 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 11:57:36 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Oct 31 12:25:00 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 12:25:02 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 2792.893838: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 15:29:24 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 15:29:37 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACAttach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 16:24:01 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 16:24:03 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 9798.078410: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 17:45:00 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 17:45:02 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 17:54:52 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 17:54:54 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14658.746789: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 19:22:45 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 19:22:59 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 19:29:24 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 19:29:26 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 5243.703964: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 20:03:06 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 20:03:21 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 20:17:32 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 20:17:34 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 7281.012269: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 20:38:28 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 20:38:43 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 20:58:01 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 20:58:03 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 8552.511229: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 21:57:38 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 21:57:53 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 21:58:28 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 21:58:30 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 12144.966550: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 22:32:14 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 22:32:32 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACAttach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 22:32:37 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Oct 31 22:32:39 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14189.681565: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Oct 31 22:34:00 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Oct 31 22:34:01 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 00:21:38 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 00:21:40 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14273.918681: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Nov 1 00:22:15 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Nov 1 00:22:30 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 02:09:55 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 02:09:57 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14326.893021: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Nov 1 02:10:52 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Nov 1 02:11:07 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 03:58:47 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 03:58:49 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14399.532011: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Nov 1 03:59:44 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Nov 1 03:59:59 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 05:47:39 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 05:47:41 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14472.039738: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Nov 1 05:48:36 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Nov 1 05:48:51 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Nov 1 07:02:40 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 07:02:42 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 14544.793780: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Nov 1 07:14:20 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 0 milliseconds

Nov 1 07:14:38 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Nov 1 08:12:18 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: AppleThunderboltGenericHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1 milliseconds

Nov 1 08:12:20 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: ARPT: 15262.878777: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro:Application Scripts lukaszgebel$


And this:

Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro:Application Scripts lukaszgebel$ syslog | grep -i "Wake reason"

Oct 31 11:30:23 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACDetach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 11:31:38 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Oct 31 11:57:36 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Oct 31 15:29:37 lukaszs-mbp kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACAttach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 17:45:02 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 19:22:59 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 20:03:21 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 20:38:43 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 21:57:53 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Oct 31 22:32:32 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.ACAttach (Maintenance)

Oct 31 22:34:01 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 00:22:30 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 02:11:07 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 03:59:59 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

Nov 1 05:48:51 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

Nov 1 07:14:38 Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0] <Notice>: Wake reason: EHC1

Lukaszs-MacBook-Pro:Application Scripts lukaszgebel$

Wake reason: EHC1

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