Vicnowo

Q: sleep wake problem with Yosemite on my Mac Mini Mid 2012

I have a problem with Sleep Wake on a Mac Mid 2012 Mac Mini running 10.10, I was also a beta test user, and had seen the same problem before the official release. After the Mac Mini goes to sleep, and you try to wake it, it sits frozen, you can not enter your password, after about 5 minutes, the Mac reboots, and you can enter your password, the keyboard works again. I am using the Apple bluetooth MC184LL/A wireless keyboard. This same problem is occurring with the Logitech K760 bluetooth solar keyboard. I am now going to try only a standard USB keyboard, to see if the problem is somehow related to bluetooth? I been sending the reports to Apple about this problem since I started the beta testing from the start of the Yosemite beta test. It seems this is low on the list or is somehow related to my machine only? I have never had any problems with my Mac Mini, and have never done anything to the device (I never opened the Mac).

Any one else with the same problem? Thanks!


Vicnnowo

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10), Wake Sleep Bluetooth Keyboard

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 5:35 AM

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  • by clive from southampton,

    clive from southampton clive from southampton Oct 25, 2014 9:30 AM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 25, 2014 9:30 AM in response to Vicnowo

    I Think I've solved my freezing problem on my Mac mini. I use to use a hdmi to hdmi ccable with external speakers. As soon as I took out the external speaker jack the sleep/wake freezing stopped. So I've bought a dvi-d cable and used it with the supplied apple hdmi to Dvi-d aadapter plugged back in my speakers and problem has disappeared. Over the 2 times I've rebooted and let the mini sleep no problems so far.

    Hope this his helps some of you

  • by geneok,

    geneok geneok Oct 25, 2014 10:48 AM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 25, 2014 10:48 AM in response to Vicnowo

    I confirmed through experimentation that making sure there is only one playback source on my Mac Mini (late 2012) with Yosemite solves my freeze on wake up.  I moved my speakers (Bose 2.1) to my monitor and after waiting three hours, no freeze ups.  I then moved my monitor to DVI and plugged in my speakers and after waiting over night, no freezes.  I was able to enable Power Nap without any freeze ups.  So, for my situation, making sure I do not have two audio output sources seems to fix my problem.

  • by moptopcanada,

    moptopcanada moptopcanada Oct 25, 2014 11:48 AM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 25, 2014 11:48 AM in response to Vicnowo

    Saw this post yesterday as I am having the same issue with my Mac Mini in Yosemite with Bose external speakers. Unplugged my speakers from the 3.5 mm jack and tried to wake this morning with no problems at all. Unfortunately my monitor doesn't have sound output from HDMI, so I'm going to have to figure something else out to get my speakers back working again without using the jack. I may have to try to track down the DVI converter that came with the Mac Mini.

     

    Thanks all for figuring out this problem, and let's hope Apple can fix this problem, know that the root caused seems to have come to light.

  • by Ginger_Benn,

    Ginger_Benn Ginger_Benn Oct 25, 2014 1:13 PM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:13 PM in response to Vicnowo

    Same issue i think on waking from sleep on a mid 2011 mac mini here.

    So far since upgrading to Yosemite I've had x2 freezes on waking from sleep, the mouse is moving on desktop but system completely frozen.

  • by geneok,

    geneok geneok Oct 25, 2014 1:20 PM in response to Ginger_Benn
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:20 PM in response to Ginger_Benn

    If you have two audio sources (e.g. HDMI and speakers plugged in to the headphone socket), try unplugging the speakers.  I was able to get rid of the freeze by plugging the speakers into my monitor's speaker socket instead of the Mac Mini's headphone socket.  It's important to not have more than one audio output showing in your audio preferences.

  • by Ginger_Benn,

    Ginger_Benn Ginger_Benn Oct 25, 2014 1:27 PM in response to geneok
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:27 PM in response to geneok

    Ah ok I will just reading about the audio problem, I have headphones plugged into my headphone socket

    and also HDMI to a monitor. So guess those two together are causing the problem.

  • by Tom in London,

    Tom in London Tom in London Oct 25, 2014 1:35 PM in response to Ginger_Benn
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:35 PM in response to Ginger_Benn

    Well, all the ports on my Mac Mini are in constant use except for the FireWire port, which I only use occasionally.

     

    That's what the ports are for, isn't it? Am I not supposed to use as many of them as I feel like, any time? Are some of them just for decoration?

  • by Ginger_Benn,

    Ginger_Benn Ginger_Benn Oct 25, 2014 1:42 PM in response to geneok
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:42 PM in response to geneok

    Having headphone plugged into my HDMI monitor messes my sound up completely.

    I think I will have turn off sleep and keep headphones plugged into headphone socket.

    Hopefully 10.10.1 update will sort the freeze/audio problem out.

  • by geneok,

    geneok geneok Oct 25, 2014 1:47 PM in response to Ginger_Benn
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    Oct 25, 2014 1:47 PM in response to Ginger_Benn

    At least there's hope. :-)  I was able to switch my Monitor's HDMI connection to DVI using the Thunderbolt to DVI adapter that came with my Mini.  This got rid of the HDMI audio output.  I was then able to plug my speakers into the Mini's output socket.  I know it's not optimal, but then your Mini can go back to sleep. :-)

  • by disco74,

    disco74 disco74 Oct 25, 2014 2:58 PM in response to geneok
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    Oct 25, 2014 2:58 PM in response to geneok

    I see a lot of people focusing on the 3.5 headphone port as being the problem but I am not so sure this is the case. I have a 2011 13" macbook pro connected to a monitor via hdmi, then a cable from the 3.5 headphone jack on the monitor connecting to my external speakers. I am having this sleep/wake problem also and I have nothing connected to the headphone jack on the macbook?

  • by zentraedidotnet,

    zentraedidotnet zentraedidotnet Oct 25, 2014 4:50 PM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 25, 2014 4:50 PM in response to Vicnowo

    I'm having this issue as well. I don't even need my computer to go to sleep fully, simply having the display sleep or display power cycled will occasionally result in the "can move cursor around, can't interact with Mac in any way even remotely" situation. Only solution is to power cycle (yuck) using the physical power button.

     

    I have a 2010 Mac Mini running Yosemite plugged into a receiver and then a TV using HDMI, and I use an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad with it. I had zero problems under Mavericks with this kind of issue. I run a lot of weird random software on it like a VPN, a media server, etc. but this happens even with all of that turned off. It happens both with a Mavericks to Yosemite upgrade install and a bare USB drive Yosemite install.

     

    Really looking forward to some remedy!

  • by Kopsis,

    Kopsis Kopsis Oct 26, 2014 2:59 AM in response to Vicnowo
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    Oct 26, 2014 2:59 AM in response to Vicnowo

    This is definitely not a Mac Mini exclusive problem. I'm experiencing the exact same problem on my wife's late-2011 13" Macbook Pro. Speakers connected to 3.5mm audio out, HDMI display connected via display port to HDMI adapter. Unplugging audio out eliminates the wake-up crashes.

  • by disco74,

    disco74 disco74 Oct 26, 2014 3:12 AM in response to disco74
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    Oct 26, 2014 3:12 AM in response to disco74

    I may have to retract my last post!!! Although I said I was not using the 3.5 socket on my macbook pro, it is in a dock that jacks into the socket but does not connect to anything else.

  • by Captain Beaky,

    Captain Beaky Captain Beaky Oct 26, 2014 3:33 AM in response to disco74
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    Oct 26, 2014 3:33 AM in response to disco74

    I dont think the root cause is anything to do with the 3.5mm jack, maybe its just coincidence. Ive never had anything plugged into the 3.5mm jack, using audio over HDMI instead and my 2010 mini fails to wake up since Yosemite was installed.

  • by Kopsis,

    Kopsis Kopsis Oct 26, 2014 3:45 AM in response to Captain Beaky
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    Oct 26, 2014 3:45 AM in response to Captain Beaky

    The 3.5mm audio jack is far more than a coincidence. I have a 100% failure rate with it connected and a 0% failure rate with it disconnected. There may, of course, be other ways to trigger this bug, but at least one is directly related to use of the audio jack.

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