Sleep wake failure

Now that's an interesting idea. When I received my Mac mini WiFi would cause huge system errors and laggy cursor movements.

I've recently enabled WiFi again after moving from a wired connection. I'm going to try disabling WiFi, it worked in the past.

Thanks for jogging my memory about this.

Had submitted my supposed success with deleting an old app here before, but that was a one-hit-wonder and the problem occured again after a normal shutdown.

Now i have tried it with the above trick from Bob Bousfield and bingo! The sleep wake works normal now, checked it several times. Other options are related to Spotlight and SystemUIserver, because both cause a lot of wakeup error messages in the system log (starting way too much wakeup events and system crashes with a frozen screen), but WLAN/networking errors are also numerous and AppleTV could also be involved over WLAN.

If that doesn't work for others, try it together with the mentioned SMC reset (i had done this reset before so i don't know if that is important or not).

I don't need WLAN on my Mini, so i'll wait for Apple and hopefully 10.10.1.

I am one signature away from buying over 20 mac devices, but right i do not know if i want this. It s not like they cannot be downgraded, it s just the "head in the sand, nothing happens" attitude that ****** me off. Can we all agree that so far Yosemite is a big disappointment?

No we can't

But you can think what you like, I have upgraded 7 of my Macs so far, a little care and attention and I have 7 Macs that are faster than before.

Don't sign if it worries you, buy something else and don't worry.

This happens every time Apple update OSX so you probably want to avoid them all together. People just love to panic in advance.

Honestly, I would not let this thread put you off. There must be 1000's of other Mac Mini owners having no issues or this forum would be flooded.

I have upgraded my 2 other Macs to 10.10 (after checking in advance that my day-to-day software would run with no issues) and both are working perfectly.

not to confound the sleep/wake problem here, but these may be related and am wondering if other folks have noticed the same thing

two other things that happen:

1. I have to delete and re-create one of my email accounts for it to work (something about the password not being able to be sent securely)

2. the sound preferences revert to default and I have to re-select the ones I want every time

also being discussed here - sleep wake problem with Yosemite on my Mac Mini Mid 2012

Well, would have been nice to hear from Apple at least a beta of 10.10.1 or at least planning to drop an 10.10.01. My retina is a bit sluggish right now, and a bit unstable. Compared to others, it's ok i guess, but still, on Mavericks was thunder-fast.

I have the exact same issue for the first time after installing Yosemite. On resume from sleep, I can see the desktop, and can move the cursor with the mouse, but clicking on icons, etc. does nothing, and the keyboard does nothing. A cold boot works fine. This is a Mac Mini bought in the Summer of 2014. I run no unusual software. I have eliminated all log in items in Preferences/Accounts, reset the NPRAM, have no peripherals (other than standard Apple mini mouse and wireless keyboard), and have shutdown and unplugged to reset. It makes no difference whether a password is required or not - once it goes to sleep, this is the result, and only a forced shut-down by holding the power button and a cold boot give me control back. This problem does not appear if it merely goes into screensaver mode - which I invoke with a hot corner.

Before printing this e-mail, think if it is necessary. Think Green.

I tried do perform this and it has not solved the problem. Thanks for posting.

Just want to say that I had the issue and it went away when I removed WiFi from the options (luckily I don't need it).

Tried and it does not solve this issue. Could be for Maverick but not for Yosemite. My solution for now ----->

As posted here by xanderharrison- sleep wake problem with Yosemite on my Mac Mini Mid 2012

unplugging my external speakers from the headphone socket also stopped the freezing.

Is this a common factor for all the people experiencing the lockup here?

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! 😢😢