Mountian Lion freeze up on wake from sleep

SOLUTION for SSDs machines.

For those of you with 3RD party SSDs, this solution worked for me.

Update the firmware on your SSDs, after 10.8 something screwy happened to where the mac would not be able to communicate with the SSD, making it freeze and have to do a forced reboot. Manufacturers like OSZ and Sandisk, addressed the issue in seperate firmware updates. I just updated mine and after testing with sleeping for both 20mins and 8 hours, the freezing issue has stopped. Hopefully, this will help others as well.

Go to the manufacturers website for your SSD and update to its latest SSD firmware, reboot and it should all be better now. Goodluck!

Try going into the Activity Monitor and quiting the Dock. The CPU usage seems to fluctuate a lot. I find when I force quit the dock the computer seems to come good.... very strange though.

Thanks aqnguyen87. This appears to be the exact problem I was having due to my Crucial M4 SSD. There is a firmware update that resolves resuming from sleep issues; details are below.

Release Date: 09/25/2012

Firmware for the Crucial m4 2.5” SSD is being updated from version 000F to 010G.

The m4 is updatable to this new firmware starting from any previous version in a single step.

This is an OPTIONAL update for any drive in the field. It is only recommended if the end user is experiencing an issue related to the following items.
Do NOT use any other m4 firmware update for your 2.5” SSD such as the 01MG firmware for the mSATA form factor.

Version 010G includes the following changes:

• Improved Trim response time
• Improved power-on-to-ready time (known as POR, or TTR for Time-to-ready)
• Improved resume-time from low power modes, and improved reliability of warm reboot
• Improved power consumption by disabling HIPM (Host Initiated Power Management)

Additional details can be found in the firmware guide

Disabling the "Automatic graphics switching" in the "Energy Saver" options seems to solve it for me.

I'm having similar issues on my 2011 iMac i7 3.4 Ghz 16Gb.

Since I updated to 10.8.2, I get the beach ball once a day one click after waking from sleep. Only solution is a hard restart...

Same here! Evereday it happens. have to hard shut down. The problem is that I cannot buckup using time machine! Because, I Believe sometime in process it freezes, so time machine stops!

Omg

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

8 GB RAM

Startup Items:

FanControlDaemon - Path: /Library/StartupItems/FanControlDaemon

System Software:

OS X 10.8.2 (12C54) - Uptime: 0 days 4:8

Disk Information:

OCZ-VERTEX4 disk0 : (512.11 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Home (disk0s2) /: 511.25 GB (368.97 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8

USB Information:

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

FireWire Information:

Kernel Extensions:

com.parallels.filesystems.prlufs Version: 2010.12.28

Problem System Launch Daemons:

[failed] com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist

Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.afpstat.plist

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist

[loaded] com.equinux.VPNTracker6.agent.plist

[not loaded] com.palm.novacomd

[loaded] com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist

Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist

[loaded] com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist

[loaded] com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[failed] com.hp.printerAgent.plist

User Login Items:

Dropbox

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Autonomic Controls Media Sync

Fan Control

Flash Player

Growl

MagicPrefs

Internet Plug-ins:

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

SlingPlayer.plugin

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes:

12.0 % ocspd

4.2 % prl_vm_app

2.4 % WindowServer

1.5 % WebProcess

1.3 % Safari

1.0 % fontd

0.9 % EtreCheck

0.8 % hidd

0.5 % Finder

0.3 % prl_disp_service

Wikkid wrote:

Disk Information:

OCZ-VERTEX4 disk0 : (512.11 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Home (disk0s2) /: 511.25 GB (368.97 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

Third-party SSD... I'd start there. Update the drive firmware and check with their tech support to see if this is a known issue.

If an SSD doesn't resume from sleep properly, it will cause the system to hang. Third party drives seem to have a potential problem with this. Updating the firmware on my Crucial 512GB solved the issue for me. OCZ may have the same issue.

Apple please! Who is gona pay if my hdd fails? The issue is everyday! Have to hard reset both MacBook air and MacBook!

It is horrible

I Think I descovered How to solve it.

Inside: system config > security/privacity - in down side, beside the "locker" there is an option: "advanced".

You must unlock (pull your password), then "unmark" (if it is marked, as mine was) the option: shut donw the session after 60min...

Well, till now ti seamed to solve.

Sorry by the english, maybe the menu aren`t exactly what I described, because mine is in portuguese, so I was traslating, but sometimes the name of menus are different in other languages,

What worked for me was to restart in safe mode (hold shift while restarting) and then restart normally... My mac hasn't crashed since.

Don't forget to install to latest 10.8.2 patch released last week. It might help as well.

I had this problem, but I also had an app called Printopia installed. I removed Printopia and it fixed the problem for me.

I updated to Mountain Lion on August 6th. - Early 2011 MacBook Pro, i7 2.2, 8 GB, and have consistently installed updates and am now up to OSX 10.8.2

Ever since ML I've had a somewhat similar issue to what's described here.

In my case, I'll unplug my MacBook (which is sleeping) and go sit on the couch... MB wakes up just fine and I log in on the mainscreen and get about 10 secs of 'on' time before it goes back to sleep. Hitting random keys on the keyboard usually has it fire up to the mainscreen where I have to log in again... but no more issues. About one time in 10, I have to hard boot.

No consistency as to what programs are running, although more often than not Chrome is open.

If I leave it plugged in, I can use it forever, but unplugging it results in sleep after about 10 seconds.

Haven't really seen any benefit updating to ML, and am very happy thus far I have not installed it on my iMac.

I'm having this exactly issue on my (early) 2008 Mac Pro, and trying all the suggestions in this thread hasn't fixed the problem yet. My Mac Pro is entirely standard with the exception of the graphics card which I replaced last year with an upgraded card I bought from the Apple store, and I'm running 10.8.2. No other nonsense going on that I'm aware of -- no bluetooth devices, new/third party memory, all HDDs are functioning properly...etc.

The issue is exactly as the thread author put it...I can't open or close apps after waking my computer up from sleep mode. This is now the second time I'm experiencing this issue -- the first time the issue resolved itself with no intervention from me. It started happening and for about two weeks I was very frustrated as none of the threads I found (and there are multiple) were helpful but then it just stopped. Now, months later, it's happening again. Only a hard reset sets it working again.

Yet another epic fail for Apple. My perfectly running iMac 12,2 3.4 i7 with 16 gb of ram now freezes up almost everytime I wake it from sleep. Never happened while running Lion. Just like others the only fix is a hard restart.

It just works, huh? Total bullsh!t. Yet another reason for me to look elsewhere for my computer needs in the future.