Problem with waking from sleep with 10.8.2

I just went thru similar problem and what I learned may be helpful to others: Late 2012 MBP Retina just out of nowhere stopped waking up from sleep - had to shut down and then restart. 4 tech support calls didn't solve tho after the hardware reset call, noted that they had me unplugg all preipherals. I left them unplugged and noted the problem disappeared. Then, I started reconnecting one at a time and then restarting and waiting. No problem until I plugged in the 3rd hard drive in a 3-drive chain of thunderbolt drives. Then no waking. So then I ran a verify and repair scan on all three disks. Found one was faulty - it was the middle drive. I reformatted that drive. Now with everything reconnected all seems to be solved. Amazing.

Has anyone attempted booting into safemode ( at startup holding down Shift till you see a progress bar)? Or did a filesystem check (not permissions) and see what happens after that?

Might be worth also trying to do an SMC reset, didn't see anyone mention that yet:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

I have the same problem on a MacBook Pro. Finally found that I can work around this problem by turning off the "Wake for network access" option on the Engry Saver panel. Don't know what about that option is causing the problem, but with it turned off my MacBook woke normally this morning--the first time that's happened since installing 10.8.2.

I noticed that the problem only occurs when my system (Mac Mini, late 2009) goes to sleep based on the timer as defined in Energy Settings. When put to sleep manually (keyboard key-combination or finder menu) all is well. When wake-on-lan is enabled, the system will also sleep based on some timer. This will trigger the problem as well. So now I have set: wake-on-lan disabled and Energy Settings set to never sleep. As I result I have to put my system to sleep manually every time. Never happened before 10.8.2 upgrade. Apple please fix.

Thanks for reposting this approach to solving the wake from sleep problem with 10.8.2. In my case, it has now been two full days since it happened and I am keeping my fingers crossed.

On my machine, I think that a new driver v. 6.3.4-3 (posted last week) for my Wacom Intuos 5 Touch tablet fixed things. The previous driver would simply quit from time to time. The first time my computer started up under an energy saver setting, it went to sleep and then wouldn't wake up. After force restarting, I repaired permissions, and it hasn't happened again. Don't know if it is worth mentioning, but I installed 10.8.2 from a combo updater that I downloaded from the Apple website, not via the update in the App Store.

Yesterday I posted saying that I had applied the supplemental update and it had not solved the wake problem.

I'm revising that statement. Looks like my problem may be fixed. Following the update yesterday I found that bluetooth was not working. When I attempted to turn it on I got a message that the bluetooth module was not present and to check my hardware. Never seen that message before and wasn't sure what it meant.

I tried a shutdown and restart without solving the problem. So I did a NVRAM reset--power down, hold the command, option, p, and r keys during power up until the machine boots the second time. That fixed the bluetooth issue.

Next I turned the wake-for-network-activity option back on and let the laptop sleep. My MacBook Pro slept normally from noon yesterday until this morning. It woke normally this morning with just a click on the mouse pad. Checking the system log I saw a number of RTS alarm wakes overnight--those were the kiss of death for me before--with normally sleep operations following them.

Looks like my problem is sloved. Don't know if others will have the same success, but I hope so.

As bratman91 I didn't see the update show up in the app store. Found it by doing a google search for 10.8.2 supplemental. You can download the update from Apple support page http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1600.

Sascha, were you getting the "NVDA .... timed out ..." message before the driver update? Are you still getting it after?

Note that it was the maintenance mode that runs precisely 2 hours after sleeping that triggered this problem. If this is when your system becomes un-wakeable (like mine), investigate your /var/log/system.log file, look for the first logged "Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)" after your last crash. That should be logged at 2 hours after sleeping. Your computer wakes up and runs, turns on your network interfaces, etc... It was right after that I used to see the "NVDA ... timed out..." messages. If thats not your problem, maybe its another device that is having problem waking up and shutting down, causing the issue. There might be some clues there somewhere.

best of luck,

Rob

Just had a wild thought on this problem.

The condition appears to start with an RTC alarm. This is related to wake-for-network-access as it does not occur when that option is off. RTC generates a Full Wake / Dark Wake / Maintenance Wake mode--see messages in system log file. As this is a dark wake the display is turned off. Following this wake we see a time out of the graphics driver (or card.)

Is the graphics card timing out because the dark wake turned it off? When the next command to the card is issued, the card isn't listening. I noticed that if I use the better-battery-life energy saver option that uses memory instead of the graphics card, I do not have the hang problem. System sleeps and wakes normally even with wake-for-network-access on. Anyone want to bet the problem is the graphics card is turned off?

Hi,

Because of "nda" I'm afraid I can't speak too much about it, but any person with this problem and registred at adc ( Register ) can give a try at Mac OS ML last update. It is possible to register for free...

For others the solution could be there in a couple of weeks ( days ? ) via Software Update in the Apple menu ..

It worked for me and this black screen pulsing but dead Mac thing I had for months is gone now. As is the sound the graphic card used to make : a slight puf-puf-puf-puf, very slight but never ending noise when Mac was supposedly asleep.

hth and that I did not broke the "non disclosure agreement"

I has a similar issue, but it was resolved by removing an app from the Login Items that was not supported in Mountain Lion.

Here's the discussion with the details (Dec 9, 2012 9:01 AM(in response to sleepystu)):

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149260?start=75&tstart=0

Chet Rindfuss wrote:

My point of view is the problem is hard to fix because there isn't a single cause.

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When the user attempts to "wake" the Mac its not really alseep. It appeas to be asleep because the screen is dark. Nothing will wake the Mac because its already awake in the dark maintenance mode.

The bug really is finding out what is blocking the Mac from returning to sleep.

As always, this is my situation and others may be seeing other issues here. Bottom line. This is a complicated issue.

I have to agree with Rindfuss, re; it's likely not isolated to one issue and complicated to identify. I would not expect a fix from Apple since it is likely caused by 3rd party software tha is not fully ML compatible.

I was able to isolate the issue and fix the problem by troubleshooting "Login Items":

It sounds like updating the SMC and graphics drivers has worked for some, but not others.

My advice would be:

1) to either try the trobleshooting suggestions made between these two forums (at your own risk, since some are rather invasive), or,

2) try a Full, Clean, Fresh reinstall of the OS and software - without Migration Assistant or Time Machine (otherwise you will just end up copying over the problem). Install Applications one at a time to test if the probelm reccurs. A lenghty process, but I don't think Apple is going to come to the rescue with an update on this one.

I have been battling something similar for quite a while. I have a Macbook Pro with identifier 5,3 (I think that's 2009). Short periods of sleep wake up fine; however it refuses to wake whenever I come back after a night a way from the office. Here's the key info:

Macbook Pro (5,3)

Mountain Lion 10.8.2

External monitor with powered USB hub.

USB keyboard plugged into hub and bluetooth trackpad.

and the kicker:

The issue doesn't happen as long as all apps appearing to use webkit are quit prior to sleep. This list includes Chrome, Safari, Spotify, and iTunes.

I hope this last bit helps others narrow down a solution.

I have a MBP 17" late 2011. I just did upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion 10.8.2. Immediately after the upgrade I was experiencing the exact same problem as the OP - it would take anywhere from 1.5 to 2 minutes to wake up.

I finally called Apple. They told me to:

1. Boot up holding down the CMD and R keys to get to Disk Utilities.

2. Run Repair Permissions.

3. Run Repair Disk.

4. Close out of the Disk Utilities and boot the machine.

5. Open the Finder. Hold down the Option key, choose GO from the menu and select LIBRARY.

6. From the Library drag the CACHE fold and the COOKIES folder to the trash.

7. Delete the trash.

I was sceptical but thus far it has fixed my problem.

I've had the same problem with my Mac Pro (early 2009). I tried the other fixes, without luck. My solution for now was to reinstall Mountain Lion (not a clean reinstall, just clicking on the App and letting it install, like I did the first time). Then I updated to 10.8.1, and left it there. Sleeps and wakes fine now.

well slight success -- I followed the link on that driver page to this alternate driver

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html

and now the mac wakes from sleep. for now.

will report back with for details