New rMBP sleep/wake failure crashes

Hi there,

Same Sleep Wake Failure on Macbook Pro 15" retina display late-2013.

Thi is no good. OS X restarts itself spontaneously at some point during sleep and all applications with opened archives, current downloads or whatever has been taken place just quits leaving a terrible mess and errors in the file system starts to pile up.

This kind of failures shouldn't really happen to "The World's Most Advanced Operative System".

Same issue here on my Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina.

I was having this problem (every day for a week) - but it is fixed now.

Late-2013 MBP Retina 16GB / 512GB SSD - Mavericks

I have an external USB Hub (w/ external drives, CF readers,...) and UPS power - If I removed both of these - the problem went away - But that is not acceptable.

So I called support. They had me:

1- Boot from recovery - COMMAND-R during startup

2- Then they had me do the CMD-CTRL-P-R (wait for 2 start chimes) - Reset NVRAM

Also (I did this on my own) - in Energy Saver - I CHECKED -Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display is off.

Now my machine has been running fine for 5 days. Hope this helps.

Sound like something to do with light sensor on keyboard little need fix on light and failed sleep/ wake crashes need to update

Casey Kiernan1 wrote:

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Also (I did this on my own) - in Energy Saver - I CHECKED -Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display is off.

Now my machine has been running fine for 5 days. Hope this helps.

Uh... are you saying that you disabled having the computer to go to sleep in order to avoid wake from sleep failures? ;-) I assume that you've actually tried putting it to sleep to see if it will fail?!

Anyway, I'll try resetting NVRAM (without disabling the automatic sleep functionality!)...

I am also experiencing this Sleep/Wake issue using a rMBP 2012, 512GB 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 running Mavericks.

I will just close the laptop with no charger attached, no external devices attached either, also no Cisco VPN installed.

I also have the Haswell 2013 MacAIr, i7, 512GB and this also experiences the same problem.

Also seen this on my iMac 27, 2012, 3.4GHz 32GB Ram 768GB SSD, all the aformentioned are runnning Mavericks.

I'm having the issue as well. did this work for you?

Hey Keith,

no I did not try this, it seems a bit of a short term solution to me... I also do not feel it to be a good idea to never allow the system to sleep, I am sure there are some good reasons for this...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5076849

I meant to ask if resetting the NVRAM worked. I agree that the never sleep is not a fix.

I tried this and it did't work for me, I generally try this for when my systems are playing up...

I am having this problem too. I just got a 15 inch retina MBP and it is regularly restarting itself while asleep.

There was a firmware update released on Nov 7 for retina MBPs with NVIDIA graphics. I got my MBP on Nov 21 and was not prompted to install any firmware updates, so I assume it shipped with the latest version installed.

Does anyone know if the firmware update has anything to do with resolving this issue?

I'm in the same boat as you. brand new retina mbp. is your machine hooked up to a backup drive or anything when it restarts? mine only restarts itself when its hooked up to my backup hd.

Incredulocious wrote:

Anyway, I'll try resetting NVRAM (without disabling the automatic sleep functionality!)...

I've now tried resetting NVRAM and then letting it sleep as usual afterwards and no, it didn't help. I still get sleep wake failures and reboots.

As I mentioned earlier, the only thing that allows this machine to sleep peacefully is making sure no external hard drives are left mounted. Hardly convenient.

So, still waiting for Apple to address the issue... perhaps there'll be a fix in the coming 10.9.1 that has already been seeded to developers.

The restarting issue whilst in sleeping mode happens when external USB devices (in my case a USB hub connecting hardrives, plus iPhone USB Tethering). After upgrading to new EFI:

Results:

1) Macbook Pro Keeps restarting when in sleep mode if USB devices are connected to it.

2) Macbook doesn't restart if before going to sleep all USB devices are ejected.

THIS RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE HASWELL MACBOOK PRO 15' RETINA DISPLAY IS MESSING MY USB DEVICES, APP AND USER GENERATED DATA DUE TO CONSTANT SUDDEN RESTARTS.

I hope those who have proposed deactivating the sleep mode as a fix realise that is NOT a fix. It is simply turning off the function which has got the issue. We need the function dudes, get a grip!!

Stop yelling.

This is a user to user forum. Fellow users are offering you a temporary work around until Apple gets it fixed (perhaps in 10.9.1).

If you want to vent at Apple, call them. You are still under 90 day free complementary AppleCare phone support. http://www.apple.com/support/contact/