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No sound after sleep

Is anyone else having a problem on their Mac (mines the rMBP late 2013) where the sound doesn't work after sleep?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 9, 2013 4:24 AM

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Dec 21, 2013 12:00 AM in response to MaxHoffman

I have tried to repeat the problem for two days and have not been able to. This appears to be a "pesky" problem that is difficult to reproduce - at least with my configuration. I was hoping to see if it would happen again so I could recheck the sound in "preferences" to see if the mute box was checked after resetting the "coreaudiod" with a speaker or headphones attached.

Dec 21, 2013 12:44 AM in response to MaxHoffman

I haven't been able to repeat my sound problem yet. I do know that when I reset the "coreaudiod" I was able to hear my internal speakers after removing the extenal audio cable without needing a reboot. When I reconnected my audio cable the speakers did not play. When I looked in preferences the audio mute box was checked. I am waiting to find the problem again to find out if the mute box is checked since I have no idea why that would have occured. I haven't had the problem since resetting "coreaudio" so I can't say what will happen till it occurs again.

Dec 21, 2013 7:19 PM in response to MaxHoffman

Finally after 3 days my computer woke from sleep and decided not to make any sounds again. I was ready and waiting to use the coreaudiod "sudo killall coreaudiod" command in Terminal and that did not bring the sound back from external headphones or internal speakers. I then quit coreaduiod from the Activity Monitor and that did nothing either. The coreaudio reset seemed to work partly for my external speakers the last time around but not this time. Rebooting brought everything back to normal again. Nothing seems to fix the problem even partly and you can never repeat the problem on demand. I had to wait three days before it happened to me again. Once again, the sound setting in Preferences indicates the right ouput even though there is no sound until after a reboot.

Dec 30, 2013 12:33 PM in response to Nat82

I have the late 2013 15" rMBP with 10.9.1 and almost every time I engage sleep mode it loses audio to my headphones. When I unplug them, audio doesn't come out from the internal speakers either. Restarting fixes the problem every time, but its getting quite annoying.


This problem didn't exist on my previous MBP from 2010 with mavericks on it. Please fix this in your next patch Apple. Thanks.

No sound after sleep

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