El Capitan Frozen After Sleep

Sorry about my earlier angry post. This is so frustrating. I know there are some of us who do not have VMFusion installed. I'm one of them

El Capitan continues to freeze upon awakening from sleep, seemingly randomly. I have noticed that the screen is dimmer upon freezing and the fan races and the macbook gets hot.

Rebooting leads to an apple logo and progress bar, but then stops at either a dark or light screen and requires another force shutdown or two before it boots up properly.

Might be a red herring but I often seem to have Reminders open. I also have Busycal and 1Password. All are latest versions. I have a Samsung SSD.

Any thoughts would be very welcome.

Daniel

There's a solution that worked for me, but not a good one.

Go to System Settings > Energy Saver , uncheck the option: Put hard disks to sleep when possible.

I hope Apple will fix this annoying bug soon.

I am on a Mac Pro (Late 2013) running OS X El Capitan Ver 10.11.1

My issue is that I am working on my computer and will walk away for an extended period on time. Sometimes I come back and the screen saver is swirling away and I go right back to work. Other times, however, I come back and the screen saver is frozen and the air venting from the top of the harddrive is exceeding hot. The only way to solve the problem is to do a hard restart of the computer. The vented air will be much cooler after the restart.

This was an issue with the previous OS and continues to be an issue with El Capitan.

(PS - Sorry. I just saw that this was a Mac Book Pro thread.)

Same issue here. Using an external monitor, and about one in ten times after sleep, the screen comes up a complete shambles/jambles and the machine is frozen. I must shut down and restart. This started only after updating to El Capitan. I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro.

I've never had this option checked, and I still have the problem.

Update on upgrading to VMware Fusion 8, I had my computer "power napping" over the whole weekend and upon wakeup nothing was frozen. If you have vmware fusion, then upgrading to 8 seems to have corrected the problem or at least made it substantially better .

Well this is odd. Other than updating to 7.1.3 I've not made any other changes to my system. I left VMWare running etc. when I closed the lid on Friday, and opened it a few times over the weekend. And again this morning.

Not frozen.

So either Apple have slid an update in, or VMware has, or it's something else. But for now at least, it's back to normal. Bizarre.

I get the same problem when I leave VMware Fusion 7 OPEN before putting it to sleep. The problem only began after I upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan.

However, since I updated to VMware Fusion 7.1.3 (as of November 23,2015 from 7.1.2), nothing to report.

Cheers,

I too am having this problem. Mine occurs on a 2013 Mac Pro 6 core 32GB 1TB SSD. I thought it was related to putting my MP to sleep each night (I also had discs set to sleep when possible) I have since left it running all night (i.e. no sleep at all) and each morning when I try to start my work day, the display is frozen black with a SBBOD when I touch return on the keyboard or press a mouse button. Due to what's been said herin, I've now shut off the discs to sleep when possible setting just to see where this goes.

This problem is as repeatable as one can be. I've yet to peruse the system log to look for an error that might indicate what it might be (or at least a related symptom). I've done OS level work (Tandem NonStop) but would rather just use my MP as a photography tool. 😟

This is really quite a damning quality issue on Apple. The folks in Cupertino need to be putting more effort into quality than this problem bears out.

I'll report back any results I get from today's settings or if I see anything useful in the system logs.

I've upgraded to VMWare 7.1.3 and unfortunately, the problem is still occurring.

After opening your lid, try pressing "Command+Control" to unlock your mouse pointer.

Let me know if it works.

First off, I have a Mac Pro (the bigcyclinder) NOT a MacBook Pro; so there is no "lid".

Secondly, this did not work. The SBBOD is still there and I had to reboot (as I now have to EVERY MORNING).

But thanks for the suggestion...

Folks: note that in my case (Mac Pro 2013 (NOT a MacBook Pro)), that turning off the "put disks to sleep" option had no effect.

I still have to reboot EVERY MORNING because either the screen is completely locked up or I get a SBBOD upon pressing a key on my keyboard or pressing a mouse button.

As a Mac Developer, I will be opening a case with Apple; this is absolute crap of an OS performance!

Will advise ...

Are you a VMware Fusion user?

Yes, but I only run it when I need to: about once every two weeks. I also use Parallels VM around once a day. I use no other VM env and never leave one running (as some have I have noted in this email trail).