Q: Just go to sleep!!!
At the moment I'm really hating my Mac Mini. It has just decided in recent weeks that it does not want to go to sleep. I've tried removing all USB connections but still it wants to stay awake. What happens is it'll go to sleep and then a split second later it'll quickly wake up and then basically continue this process thereafter.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the Terminal report:
Alans-Mac-Mini:~ alan$ pmset -g assertions
2016-07-31 22:26:25 +0100
Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 1
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
NetworkClientActive 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 99(hidd): [0x000091f6000914df] 00:00:54 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
Timeout will fire in 576 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
pid 53(powerd): [0x000000040008012c] 17:17:57 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
Kernel Assertions: 0xc=USB,BT-HID
id=501 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.14200000 owner=Elements 1023
id=502 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.14500000 owner=My Passport 0820
id=503 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1d130000 owner=USB2.0 Hub
id=504 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1d133000 owner=USB2.0 Hub
id=505 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1d134000 owner=USB2.0 Hub
id=506 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1d133400 owner=NovaT 500Stick
id=507 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1d134400 owner=HL-2250DN series
id=570 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBTrackpadDevice
id=571 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler
Alans-Mac-Mini:~ alan$
Here's the Console report:
31/07/2016 22:22:53.024 AirPlayUIAgent[419]: 2016-07-31 10:22:53.023573 PM [AirPlayUIAgent] BecomingInactive: NSWorkspaceWillSleepNotification
31/07/2016 22:22:53.057 TogglDesktop[14511]: receiveSleepNote: NSWorkspaceWillSleepNotification
31/07/2016 22:23:17.000 kernel[0]: Opened file /var/log/SleepWakeStacks.bin, size 172032, extents 1, maxio 2000000 ssd 1
31/07/2016 22:23:17.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37238.992738: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Sleep
31/07/2016 22:23:18.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37239.492789: IOPMPowerSource Information: onSleep, SleepType: Normal Sleep,
31/07/2016 22:23:24.000 kernel[0]: 037241.561166 PRT2@14200000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateOn -> kPowerStateSleep
31/07/2016 22:23:24.000 kernel[0]: 037241.561399 PRT5@14500000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateOn -> kPowerStateSleep
31/07/2016 22:23:24.000 kernel[0]: Previous sleep cause: 5
31/07/2016 22:23:24.000 kernel[0]: 037242.918892 PRT2@14200000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateSleep -> kPowerStateOn
31/07/2016 22:23:24.000 kernel[0]: 037242.918897 PRT5@14500000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateSleep -> kPowerStateOn
31/07/2016 22:23:31.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37250.204525: IOPMPowerSource Information: onWake, SleepType: Normal Sleep,
31/07/2016 22:24:25.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37304.463655: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Sleep
31/07/2016 22:24:26.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37304.965648: IOPMPowerSource Information: onSleep, SleepType: Normal Sleep,
31/07/2016 22:24:33.000 kernel[0]: 037308.099059 PRT5@14500000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateOn -> kPowerStateSleep
31/07/2016 22:24:33.000 kernel[0]: 037308.146483 PRT2@14200000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateOn -> kPowerStateSleep
31/07/2016 22:24:33.000 kernel[0]: Previous sleep cause: 5
31/07/2016 22:24:33.000 kernel[0]: 037308.288851 PRT2@14200000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateSleep -> kPowerStateOn
31/07/2016 22:24:33.000 kernel[0]: 037308.289049 PRT5@14500000: AppleUSBHostPort::setPowerStateGated: kPowerStateSleep -> kPowerStateOn
31/07/2016 22:24:38.000 kernel[0]: ARPT: 37313.510999: IOPMPowerSource Information: onWake, SleepType: Normal Sleep,
31/07/2016 22:25:20.457 WindowServer[207]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 16GB RAM / 512GB SSD
Posted on Jul 31, 2016 2:32 PM