New MBA crashes if clicking during 'going-to-sleep'

exact same problem, 2013 MBA 13", after Mavericks update, crashes twice, only when it goes to sleep and I click any keyboard at the same time (within 1-1.5 second)!

Please investigate Apple!

Yes, it happen to my 2013 MBA with 10.9 twice today. The screen apparently darken (assume that display sleep was activated), I did not close the lid but I tried to wake it up within about 5 seconds after the screen was dark. And it just wouldn't wake up. It was on battery mode. The only way to wake it up was to force shut down and restart. I even tried closing the screen and waited 15 mins, but to no avail. It was dead!

Apple is working on it. They're investigating my MBA, as it has the issue, to figure it out. No solution time frame was given, but there's the temporary workaround of not interrupting the computer while it goes to sleep. Annoying sometimes, but it works.

Exact same problem here as well, just thought I'd throw my MBA in the hat with everyone elses. Hope theres a fix soon.

Go to system preferences > energy settings > UNcheck "put hard disks to sleep" on both tabs for charge and battery.

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Same problem with my 13-inch MacBook Air Mid 2013. Still happens with 10.9.1...

Thanks Plotinus,

Did anybody else try this yet? Did it work for you?

I tried this option for my mid 2013 MBA but did not solve the problem. It still freezes when it goes to sleep and if you try to stop the sleep process.

I really do not understand this feature though because for MBA, there is no need to "put HDD to sleep" as it uses SSD, unlike traditional magnetic HDD whereby spinning down will save energy. So, I do not know how by unchecking the option will solve the problem. Maybe it will work with MBP with regular HDD.

Do not worry,this is not a hardware problem.I think this is a 10.9 bug. so many people meet this problem,but in 10.8.5 is normally. so you can wait for the new update for 10.9 or back to 10.8.5.

There are hundreds (thousands?) of us who have encountered this. I can now replicate it at will and have done so at dealers to demonstrate. Apple senior advisors have confirmed to me and many others that it is a known fault and they are working on a fix which will be released in due course (nothing more specific than that). Some people are taking their MBA's back for refunds, others just putting up with it in the hope of a fix soon. I've told Apple Care I will give it 4 weeks for a fix and if no joy I will be expecting a refund (Check the waranties and consumer rights legislation for your country).

PlotinusVeritas advises setting sleep to never in Energy Savings Preferences. A good piece of advice which should help, but if you thenshut the lid to get it to sleep instead, you may well find it freezes to black screen when you try to wake it!

I have changed the pmset to the following and seems to have worked. I use hibernatemode 25 instead of the default 3. Make sure the duration settings for displaysleep, disksleep, sleep and standby are set logically, if not you will get error prompts.

Active Profiles:

Battery Power -1

AC Power -1*

Currently in use:

standbydelay 10800

standby 5

womp 1

halfdim 1

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

darkwakes 1

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 1

sleep 3

autopoweroffdelay 14400

hibernatemode 25

autopoweroff 1

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 2

acwake 0

lidwake 1