iMac 10.6 Will not sleep after trying everything posted

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iMac 10.6 Will not sleep after trying everything posted

iMac OS X 10.6.8 Insomnia

iMac OS X 10.6.8 will not sleep automatically based on power settings. I have tried the following things individually and tested after each attempt. I then tried all in order as suggested in other posts on this site. This is the order I have tried and failed.

Repair Permissions
Restart in Safe Mode
SMC Reset 2 times
PRAM Reset 2 times
Started the Activity Monitor and filtered by Powered and found nothing.
Disconnected Ethernet cable because I could see I was getting bumped regularly by the connection but there were no results and it still does not sleep.

Restored defaults to the Energy Saver.

I do not have anything shared and “Wake for Ethernet Access” is not checked nor do I have anything in the print queue.

No printer is connected but there is an Ethernet printer attached to the router.

Bluetooth and Airport are turned off.

Disabled the “Guest Account”

Deleted all the Startup items in the Main account except “iCal” and “System Events” I would even eliminate “System Events” from my start items if I knew what it did and did not hurt anything.

The only way I can make it sleep is to start in Safe Mode and then it works flawlessly. Now I am stuck with a computer that will not sleep automatically.

iMac OS X 10.6.8 with 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and 2GB 667MHz SDRAM

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Oct 14, 2012 11:22 AM

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Dale Weisshaar

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Oct 14, 2012 2:47 PM in response to Shootka

Sounds like you have tried most things. Try ones you missed below if you are still running 10.6.

This is for a Mac that won't sleep.

Here is Apple's KB article HT1776 with their tips.

Mine follow;

USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.

If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file. If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.

If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password). If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.

Some have resolved sleep issues by downloading the Combo update, from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse,Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try

USER TIPS……..

Check in System Preferences > Energy Saver is "Wake for network access" checked? If so, uncheck it.

One user reported, " I couldn't make my macbook pro to go to sleep because I had my wireless headphone receiver still plugged in. I unplugged it and then it went to sleep."

Also, if you have an External Western Digital (WD) hard drive and have installed WDDMService and WDSmartWareD on your Mac, it may not sleep. Fix is to un-install those....you don't need them to use the drive.

"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"

One provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.

Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.

After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute. After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.

"I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps. Check the printer queue!"

One user has had success, after trying all these tips, using an App. called PleaseSleep. I've never used it though.

Good Luck!  DALE

DALE

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Shootka Author

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Oct 14, 2012 5:20 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Thanks Dale

That is a lot of info to digest.

This will take me a while to sort out.

I have been looking at my Console Messages and it appears that Google keeps banging me very 10 seconds for something that does not work.

It could be the problem.

It all started when I went from Tigre to Snow.

10/14/12 7:12:52 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2724]) Exited with exit code: 1
10/14/12 7:12:52 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/14/12 7:13:02 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2726]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon
10/14/12 7:13:02 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2726]) Exited with exit code: 1
10/14/12 7:13:02 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/14/12 7:13:12 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2733]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon
10/14/12 7:13:12 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2733]) Exited with exit code: 1
10/14/12 7:13:12 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/14/12 7:13:23 PM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[2734]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon

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WZZZ

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Oct 14, 2012 7:16 PM in response to Shootka

If you have Chrome but don't need it, trash the google.keystone daemon. Or open Terminal and paste in

sudo launchctl unload -w

leave a space and drag in the com.google.keystone.daemon

then hit return and give your password, which won't appear when you enter it. This will disable it.

To reverse this command, substitute load for unload.

And PleaseSleep works on my 10.4/PPC. Seems to be a new version that may work with later OSs and Intel.

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WZZZ

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Oct 14, 2012 7:21 PM in response to WZZZ

Look for that in these locations

HD/Library/LaunchDaemons

HD/System/Library/LaunchDaemons

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Shootka Author

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Oct 15, 2012 6:13 AM in response to WZZZ

Thanks WZZZ

I do not have Chrome but I do have Google Earth and I also use Google voice.

Do you think removal would affect either one? I suspect voice is not an .app so it probably would not.

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WZZZ

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Oct 15, 2012 6:23 AM in response to Shootka

I don't use either, but it's possible it might affect them. Why don't you try temporarily disabling that launchdaemon and see what happens.

sudo launchctl unload -w

As I mentioned, it can be quickly reversed substituting load for unload in the above command.

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Shootka Author

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Oct 15, 2012 8:22 AM in response to WZZZ

WZZZ

I tried your fix: sudo launchctl unload -w com.google.keystone.daemon

It will not work here is the message I got:

launchctl: Couldn't stat("com.google.keystone.daemon"): No such file or directory

nothing found to unload.

Then I went to Google: support.google.com/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100386

and got this terminal script: sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resou rces/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py --uninstall

After uninstall I checked Console and I was no longer being hit by Keystone so I rebooted and it again started.

only a little different response. The first check has "No such file or directory" So what ever its lookong for is not there anymore.

10/15/12 10:17:47 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[551]) posix_spawn("/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/C ontents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon", ...): No such file or directory
10/15/12 10:17:47 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[551]) Exited with exit code: 1
10/15/12 10:17:47 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
10/15/12 10:17:57 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[552]) posix_spawn("/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/C ontents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon", ...): No such file or directory
10/15/12 10:17:57 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon[552]) Exited with exit code: 1
10/15/12 10:17:57 AM	com.apple.launchd[1]	(com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

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WZZZ

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Oct 16, 2012 6:12 AM in response to Shootka

The reason the sudo launchctl unload -w command didn't find that file is you didn't give the full path for the command to work. You can't just paste in the name of the file after the command, as Terminal (which uses Unix) doesn't know where to find it. To do that, you must first find that Google daemon and drag it into the terminal window, after leaving a space after the command. It will then automatically populate the Terminal window with the name of the file and the full path. (This isn't the only way to do this. You could, if you knew it, just enter that full path and file name yourself.)

Here's an example (which I didn't execute.)

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bombich.ccc.plist

You will notice how it tells Terminal where that file is. It's in /Library/LaunchDaemons

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WZZZ

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Oct 16, 2012 7:21 AM in response to WZZZ

To locate that file, get EasyFind. Settings:scan all files, files and folders, ignore case. Enter the name and do a search. When you find it, use Reveal in Finder from the EasyFind menubar.

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware/

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Shootka Author

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Oct 16, 2012 1:42 PM in response to WZZZ

THE SNOW LEOPARD SLEEPS TONIGHT

I finally got rid of the Google updater that ran it’s process every 10 seconds and prevented my iMac from sleeping automatically. Here’s How:

I made 2 directories on the desktop (1) for the items in the root Macintosh HD and (2) for the items in the user partition.

Moved the following items into the (1) HD Folder on the desktop:
From the folder “LaunchDaemon” a file named “com.google.keystone.daemon4.plist”
From the folder “Library” a folder named “Google 21-18-18” including it’s subfolders. It was locked and required unlocking to copy it into the folder on the desktop and then delete it from Library folder.

Moved the following items into the (2) “User” folder on the desktop:
From the folder “User/Library/Preferences” File named “com.Google.GECommonSettings.plist”
From the folder “User” A folder named “Google” including it’s subfolders “GoogleSoftwareUpdate” and “TicketStore”

Now that these folders and files were no longer in the place where they belong I rebooted only to find the problem still existed. Console showed the files continued to request an update try every 10 seconds and preventing the Mac from sleeping. It appears the files do not need to be in a specific location in order to work unlike the MS Windows environment.

In order to archive these folders and files I put them in the burn folder and burned a CD and then deleted the folders from the desktop. I rebooted and Bingo the Console shows no Google activity and I am sleeping again.

Thanks for everybody’s help.

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sheffi

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Mar 13, 2016 7:12 AM in response to Shootka

Did you try Putting into sleep mode and opening closing the lid 10 times

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sheffi

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Mar 13, 2016 7:15 AM in response to Shootka

BECAUSE of European rule Power management has been controlled

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sheffi

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Mar 13, 2016 7:54 AM in response to sheffi

The battery is controlled because of fire risk ,so the power manager puts the bios in very low and that can make the battery seem dead and then the power manager must not use charger only because the CPU must work at an agreeable ratio ,so therefore all variables are miscalculated and the Computer can not perform so in order to fix you must turn on and put the lid up and down 10 times and keeping it warm and putting to sleep and waking and timer on off play with all the things related to the Power sleep settings timer,start up wake shut down reboot close lid open do this for 10 times and repeat for 2 to 3 days the system must also work so put on erase free space that will get the CPU go over drive and start to exercise also turn the atomic clock on and off aluminium can get cold and the battery goes to sleep the ions fro not work ,turn it off and sleep in a warm bed with it for 2 hours then turn it on ,but do not put the plug in .when using a lot then keep it above the table I keep on a baking rack so about 3 cm above the surface the fan ,sweat can damage ,so use a kerchief to keep it from dripping into the key board and onto the mother board.Do not wear wool clothes sleeves contain static because arms move and make an electric static field and can confuse the pulses on top of that all pressure of air in the room can change ions micro waves dust particles are sucking into computers by static and can act as micro ultra static fields around metal points and chips.

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sheffi

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Mar 23, 2016 4:06 AM in response to sheffi

When using Led 27 inch display with MBP which charger should we use ? I can not find any information to the contrary ,but when it is charged we should take out the charger OR LEAVE IT IN ? Does the Display firmware have any relation to the MBP ?

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