MBA mid-2013 wakes from sleep every minute on Mavericks

Well, I've reset PRAM & SMC; also (by accident rather than design) had to reinstall Mavericks to a fresh partition - and it still triggered the 1 minute wake-up cycle.

However.

I've recently just stopped Google Drive & DropBox (still installed, just exited the programs)...

...and my MBA has successfully hibernated for several days now without triggering battery loss. Approx. 6 sleep/wake cycles so far, and all OK.

I'm now reinstating Google Drive and will keep testing... if that succeeds, I'll try and bringing back in DropBox.

Still yet to 100% certain find out exactly what is causing this tho'... hopefully my continued logging will help someone else! 🙂

I will point out that I followed the instructions of removing the SystemConfiguration folder from /Library/Preferences and that have since set the hibernation to a low time (sudo pmset -b stanbydelay 15) and then have slept the machine on battery quite a few times now and have not had it wake up like it had been. (pmset -g stats says, "Dark Wake Count: 10").

I will point out and I don't know that it has anything to do with anything but when I first changed my standbydelay I got warnings from pmset that my Display sleep should be lower than system sleep. Also, when I did pmset -g stats I saw that my 'sleep' was set to 1 and followed by (sleep prevented by apsd, apsd) which seemed a little strange to me. So, I did sudo pmset -b sleep 3 and sudo pmset -b displaysleep 2 and now I no longer have that (sleep prevented by apsd, apsd) (which is odd because that's the apple push service daemon...) is no longer in my list of settings. I doubt that's really anything but I figured I'd not it here. I will update if I see any changes now.

I hope some of this might help.

Same here with brand new RMBP 15". Haven't got this with previous version of retina… Trying to resolve with Apple support.

There seems to be some sort of magic combination that makes the computer sleep properly. A combination of closing Dropbox and "sudo pmset -b standbydelay 604800" made my computer sleep successfully last night. @dr-grimm you might want to give that a try this evening and see what happens.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the thought - I can see why your machine no longer wakes;

sudo pmset -n standbydelay 604800

Basically this will prevent the mac from entering full hibernate mode - it will remain in "sleep" and just nibble the battery.

The problem seems to be when full hibernation triggers (i.e. standbydelay is hit) - and then 1 minute repeated dark wake (for me, problem was to do with "PID 17(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "PM configd - Wait for Device enumeration" 00:00:00 id:0xe000028a4 [System: No Assertions]" appearing in the log - check "pmset -g log").

Oddly enough, my machine is now behaving. I have rebooted (fully) a few times, and after initially quitting DropBox & Google Drive [which removed the 1 minute wake problem], I restarted Google Drive, and the 1 minute wake was still fixed. I then restarted DropBox, everything still working. I have had numerous sleep cycles now with no power loss. For instance, the latest log looks like:

23/11/2013 10:24:57 GMT Sleep Clamshell Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:53%) 17323 secs

23/11/2013 10:25:02 GMT SlowResponse PMConnection: Response from com.apple.apsd is slow (powercaps:0x0) 4162 ms

23/11/2013 10:25:02 GMT WakeRequests Clients requested wake events: None

23/11/2013 15:13:40 GMT Wake Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using BATT (Charge:53%)

23/11/2013 15:13:40 GMT HibernateStats hibmode=25 standbydelay=5 rd=408 ms

...so nothing random waking it up (my standbydelay is set to 5 minutes).

Maybe shutting down Google Drive and/or DropBox may fix this for someone? I then re-introduced them & the system remained stable... I'm still carefully watching the battery tho'

Hope that helps! 🙂

I pinnpointed my issue (RMBP 15" late 2013 + Mavericks) to external display. I have two connected: Apple Thunderbolt Display 27" (+ FW GoFlex 2TB) and Dell U2713H (via Mini Display Port). I also have USB 3 drive connected. After trying out different configuration of connected devices and enabled interfaces (WiFi, BT etc) it appears that for me the cause is the Dell display. It's strange though as the same configuration hadn't caused any problems with RMBP 15" 2012.

In my pmset logs I can see a lot of `Sleep Dark Wake Thermal Emergency: Using AC (Charge:100%)` messages when the display is connected.

Quiting Google Drive does not solve this issue for me ... after standbydelay is over my mac still goes into 1 minute wakeups instead of hibernate. Setting standbydelay to a very high value is still the best option for now in my case.

XES

One thing to bear in mind:

If you set standbydelay to something small (e.g. 2 minutes), it makes life a lot easier when testing for the 1 minute dark wake issue. Otherwise I had to wait for the 3 hours before dark wake kicked off... not ideal when trying lots of alternatives.

Try safe mode - did that fix it for you? i.e. if you boot in safe mode, does hibernation work after standbydelay? It did for me - other people have had the dark wake issue during safe boot...

If so, you then have to narrow down (ouch) which application is causing the issue... for me, dropbox/google drive were the problem. Allegedly.

I can only assume DropBox & GoogleDrive were somehow confused by the Mavericks upgrade and possibly conflicted with each other (e.g. if they masquerade as a hardware driver)... but I'm not convinced 😟

I have tried to reduce standbydelay for testing purposes but I could not find a proper reason for this 1minute wakeups .... deleting SystemConfiguration folder as fskirschbaum sugested helped ... but after two days 1minute wakeups are back ... As far as I can tell it is something very very wrong with MacOS X Mavericks .... I started with Mavericks on both of my two macs, but used other macs with mountain lion in the past and did not have this 1minute wakeup issue. Other people on this forum have also noticed that this battery drainage problem occured when they switched to Mavericks. Hopefully we will see a fix soon ... utill then a very long standbydelay is the only workarround (it is not a fix) that will for sure prevent battery drainage over night!

XES

I don't think it was the combination that did it. We've pretty well established now that the problems happen when the machine tries to hibernate... changing standbydelay to a huge number prevents that from happening.

Yes, postponing hibernation is a workarround ... mac sleeps, but does not try to hibernate after standbydelay is over (to save even more battery). I have done a lot of testing, and so did other users of this forum and we are unable to pinpoint exact reason why this 1minute wakeup happens. pmset -g log does not reveal a real culprit for this issue. Since this did not happen on Mountain Lion we can only come to a conclusion it is a Mavericks bug that should be fixed by Apple.

Bottom line - check the output of:

pmset -g log

I kept getting device enumerations which implied a piece of hardware wasn't behaving... such as:

19/11/2013 16:44:21 GMT Assertions PID 17(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "PM configd - Wait for Device enumeration" 00:00:00 id:0xe000027b5 [System: No Assertions]

19/11/2013 16:44:21 GMT DarkWake DarkWake [CDN] : Using BATT (Charge:20%) 45 secs

19/11/2013 16:44:21 GMT SlowResponse Kernel: Response from powerd is slow

For some wierd reason, these have now stopped. Safe mode caused the issue to go away, which suggests it was either a driver or a piece of software I had installed... but other people's problems may be caused by another reason. If you get the same issues in the log, try safe mode & check if that clears up the issue...

One could also try to create another administrator profile, log out of the current one, log in to the new one and check if this happens. For me it didn't change much.

What I haven't tried is to make a fresh install and create a freash profile there.

Same problem with Late 2013 rMBP 13". Syslog shows when hibernation attempted, machine gets woken up every minute, draining battery.

I tend to agree with the suggestion that a user program is a likely culprit. I stopped dropbox and google drive, but no change. I then uninstalled Avast and this problem is solved for me.

If you have Avast or Sophos, try uninstalling to see if it corrects the problem.

A friend of mine suggested me this software: http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html.

I have not tired yet.