Q: Sleep/wake crash OSX Mavericks, Macbook Air 2013

My 2007MBP started having problems waking from sleep immediately after upgrading to Mavericks (10.9.1). Twice I put it to sleep at night and found it with the fans running the next morning and it would not wake from sleep. I did a SMC reset and it seems to have solved the problem. Thanks ViShVa.

I had the same problem with a new Macbook Air 11 - I can't say if it happened with 10.8 as I went straight to 10.9.  Same issues as everyone else, sometime I open the lid and everything is fine other times get black screen, or get to the login screen but have the spinning beech ball.  Really frustraiting.

I tried changing the sleep method a few days ago, and so far no reoccurence.

There a three different options noted for sleep -

     hibernatemode = 0 (binary 0000) by default on supported desktops. The

     system will not back memory up to persistent storage. The system must

     wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on power

     loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.

     hibernatemode = 3 (binary 0011) by default on supported portables. The

     system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and

     will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless

     a power loss forces it to restore from disk image.

     hibernatemode = 25 (binary 0001 1001) is only settable via pmset. The

     system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and

     will remove power to memory. The system will restore from disk image. If

     you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery

     life, you should use this setting.

I am no expert on this but from reading believe the default setting is 3.

This can be checked by using pmset -g which will list the current settings.

I took a chance that changing to hibernatemode = 25 might help.  It takes a little longer to resume from sleep when opening the lid - maybe an additional two seconds, and enough that you can open the lid and still see a black screen for a second or so - but over the past few days, and going in and out of sleep lots of times no reoccurance.

I changed it using the command -   sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

Please use at your own risk, as I am sure that changing this is not suppored by Apple.

Dear abjoc,

in my case settings are as follow:

Active Profiles:

Battery Power                    -1*

AC Power                    -1

Currently in use:

standbydelay         1800

standby              1

halfdim              1

sms                  1

hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage

disksleep            0

sleep                0

autopoweroffdelay    14400

hibernatemode        25

autopoweroff         1

ttyskeepawake        1

displaysleep         10

acwake               0

lidwake              1

Hi, it appears that my settings are already set to 25.

Correct?

Anything else to change to be concern?

Andrea

Dear Andrea,

Looks like yours was already set to 25.  I changed the settings on my Macbook from 3 to 25 - so far this is day 3 and probably 30+ Sleep/Wakes without an issue.

I have a new Macbook Air 11 (mid-2013 spec) - can only think that it might vary between different Macbook models..?

I also reset the SMC & NVRAM - this didn't make a difference when set to 3, but don't know if a combination of SMC and NVRAM reset and change to this setting made the difference.

A few days after I posted this, I went in and changed the energy safer settings, I move the Computer sleep timer up to Never, and my MacPro hasnt crashed or stopped responding since, working perfectly.

I know that is not a complete fix, but in my case is has issues a temp fix till Apple finds the problem and fixes it correcly

thanks for all the comments and support

Same issue - 13" MacBook Air running 10.9.1. Numerous conversations with Apple support haven't resolved the problem. Certainly appears to be a software issue - hope Apple releases a fix soon!

There is an issue bringing my Macbook pro 2013 out of sleep when I have any monitors plugged in either through the HMDI or Thunderbolt ports.  The mbp will not wake until I unplug the monitors. 

That's an interesting observation Bryan29562.  Although I have an iMac, I have a second slave monitor plugged into the Thunderbolt port > HDMI interface.  The configuration is probably unusual in beta testing and the issue is intermittent so may not have been reported reliably but it's certainly something I hadn't considered and probably highly likely as a cause.

I have a MBAir but don't often attach a second monitor to it.  It would be interesting if the situation can be replicated.

I've had to reinstall Mavericks twice since it came out last year. Both times the reinstall cured problems but for a short time. I've now totally dumped Mavericks and operating on Snow Leopard, the last CD OS I own. I would have degraded to Mountain Lion but couldn't on the App store. Here's an article I wrote about my recent decision to never, ever use Maverickshttp://johnbpritchett.blogspot.com/p/coffee-talk.html

I am having the same issue with Mavericks and a mid 2012 mbp non-retina, thought it was due to disabling hibernation, I enabled it again and the issue persists.

my macbook air 13.3 stock 15 low end config actualy played the boot tone whilst the lid was shut i opent the lid and nothig was there mabie this is just a glitch

does anybody have an official response from Apple? Something? A bug number in a tracking system, something?

It is ridiculous, so huge application issue. I have to switch off my macbook every day before go to work and before go home. Otherwise it crashes on a wake up. I had zero problems with Leopard before with the same hardware.

I am also having this issue on a 13inch MacBook Air purchased in October. Have had the issue since I downloaded Mavericks, and can reproduce the error by waiting for the screen to dim and trying to re-wake the computer. Mine wakes up fine if I leave it alone for a while. This issue has caused me to lose data multiple times by forcing a hard restart, and it is driving me crazy!

But, I had an interesting episode of it this morning. I was on a conference call using Skype, when my screen faded to go to sleep, and I swiped the touch pad. The screen went black, as it always does, and I could not wake up the screen. HOWEVER, it did not disconnect the internet or my Skype call, and I was able to continue my Skype call for another 30 minutes with no disruption, other than I could not see the screen.

So, this leads me to believe that the sleep/wake issue has to do with the montior/screen rather than the rest of the system. An interesting experiment to add to this thread.

But please, Apple, give us a fix!!!!

Same problem as everyone else.  MBP 13" early 2011.  Reset SMC and NVRAM and nothing.

Maverics has been nothing short of a disaster for me.  I spend more time working on problems than working.  Like being back to Windows.

Come on Apple, time to do something about this?