Mountain Lion Parental Control time limits are not "turning off" the computer when my kids time is up

Apparently it's getting confused between the "bedtime" and the time limits. Using one but not both solves the problem for me. So if you mainly want the kids off the computer at a certain time of day or night, leave the "bedtime" checkboxes checked but uncheck the weekday & weekend time limits. Or if you prefer to limit their use by time allowance, turn the bedtime checkboxes off and leave the time limit checkboxes on. Obviously this isn't a great solution for those who relied on a combination of both.

Thank You!! This appears to have solved the problem for me (or at least provided an acceptable workaround). I simply unchecked the "School nights" and "Weekend" boxes under "Bedtime," and the time allowances started working again. For me this is good, because the time allowances are the more critical of the two.

I can confirm this worked for me. I also turned off the bedtime limits.

Hi,

I can not access parental control anymore. Preference Control is crashing including the system control.

So I can not change anything and it's not working! So I have to downgrade. That's really awfull!

Process: System Preferences [2658]

Path: /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences

Identifier: com.apple.systempreferences

Version: 12.0 (12.0)

Build Info: SystemPrefsApp-232000000000000~22

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [488]

User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2012-08-02 19:36:48.379 +0200

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8 (12A269)

Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 3020 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 7

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 409 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7

Anonymous UUID: FEE2139F-D755-4FB5-8F9C-CA649519552A

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:

com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols v.400 (Kindersicherung)

objc[2658]: GC: forcing GC OFF because OBJC_DISABLE_GC is set

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff901ce58a _CFBundleGrokInfoDictFromFile + 170

1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff90153b53 _CFBundleGrokMachTypeForFatFile + 1123

2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff90150136 _CFBundleGrokFileType + 2054

3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff901cca0c _CFBundleCopyInfoDictionaryInExecutable + 60

4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9018f61a CFBundleCopyInfoDictionaryForURL + 74

5 com.apple.framework.familycontrols 0x00007fff8f085764 FCCopyInfoDictFudgingIfNecessary + 118

6 com.apple.framework.familycontrols 0x00007fff8f089913 -[FCApp readBundleInfo] + 125

7 com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols 0x0000000115371c98 0x115366000 + 48280

8 com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols 0x000000011536d2d5 0x115366000 + 29397

9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff90139b8a _CFXNotificationPost + 2554

10 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff917c7a76 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 64

11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98b03aa0 -[NSTableView _sendSelectionChangedNotificationForRows:columns:] + 176

12 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98ae8cdc -[NSTableView _enableSelectionPostingAndPost] + 411

13 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98e8c9b9 -[NSTableView mouseDown:] + 5530

14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98ddbd49 -[NSOutlineView mouseDown:] + 678

15 com.apple.preferences.parentalcontrols 0x000000011536eaa5 0x115366000 + 35493

16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98a7ddce -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 6853

17 com.apple.systempreferences 0x000000010fbed5b2 0x10fbe6000 + 30130

18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98a79f04 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 5761

19 com.apple.systempreferences 0x000000010fbec9a8 0x10fbe6000 + 27048

20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff9898fc7a -[NSApplication run] + 636

21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff98934656 NSApplicationMain + 869

22 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff99b257e1 start + 1

Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff95103d16 kevent + 10

1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d6a6e26 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 883

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8d6a6a2a _dispatch_mgr_thread + 54

Thread 2:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff951036d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0f2c _pthread_workq_return + 25

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0cf3 _pthread_wqthread + 412

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964db1b1 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 3:: com.apple.CFSocket.private

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff95103322 __select + 10

1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff90168bf6 __CFSocketManager + 1302

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964ee782 _pthread_start + 327

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964db1c1 thread_start + 13

Thread 4:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff951036d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0f2c _pthread_workq_return + 25

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0cf3 _pthread_wqthread + 412

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964db1b1 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 5:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff951036d6 __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0f2c _pthread_workq_return + 25

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964f0cf3 _pthread_wqthread + 412

3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff964db1b1 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):

rax: 0x0000000000001000 rbx: 0x0000000000020910 rcx: 0x0000000000001000 rdx: 0x0000000000000000

rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x0000000000001020 rbp: 0x00007fff500183f0 rsp: 0x00007fff500182f0

r8: 0x000000000000000d r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000002 r11: 0x0000000000000202

r12: 0x000000000000000d r13: 0x0000000000001000 r14: 0x0000000116c1d000 r15: 0x0000000000000000

rip: 0x00007fff901ce58a rfl: 0x0000000000010206 cr2: 0x0000000116c1e010

Logical CPU: 1

+1 on solution suggested by John S. Thanks John!

Whew. Thought I was going crazy when I checked my kids' computer with 18 minutes left and about 20 minutes later, it still shows 17 minutes left. Fix is needed ASAP! Thanks! I'm going to fill out the feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html so they can collect the reports in addition to this forum.

This also worked for me (unchecking the "bedtime" options and keeping the time limits) but honstly this is a work-around. Hope Apple will fix this issue soon.

I never quite figured out where you can see how much time is remaining in their allotments. Where do you do that?

Haha yes this happens to me too - but I'm the kid so I hope there isnt gonna be a fix 😉

same for me

This really is quite pathetic. Why would that have changed? If you make a change to software in some area then you need to test that change. I am finding Mountain Lion to be a problem. Why would they have taken out RSS support in Mail? Why doesn't the photos screensaver look in subfolders any more? Then to have the parental controls not work the way they are supposed to is just one more thing making this update seem a little, just a little, like Vista.

Sad (and frustrated) to say that this method hasn't helped our computer with this issue.

Same issue for me regarding time limits. Also, cannot access the app store when parental controls are enabled even though the "limit applications" box is not checked. Looks like mountain lion has some bugs with parental controls.

It looks like 10.8.1 does not fix this issue.

For anyone else who didn't know, clicking on the clock in the menu bar displays the time remaining for that account. If bed time and time limits are activated, it displays the time until bedtime no matter how much time has elapsed towards the time limit.