Sleep Wake Failure: Reboots only after upgrading to High Sierra

Trying this now.

So frustrated that I finally get a drive with space only to have this sleep/crash issue. So all the time I used to spend constantly deleting things for files I now spend rebooting because of this sleep issue. If I cant get it solved im about to go back to my original SSD

Just sent my latest report to apple after yet another unexpected sleep wake failure restart. I lost count. This message is only to keep the community updated about the lack of progress on the situation. Yesterday I responded to someone's comment about apple's inconsiderate approach to this problem. Apple removed my message!

After yesterday's unwanted reboot (umptieth in a row over the past few weeks) I report new and worrying state, which denied control over two of the three open applications. I had to force shut down the computer.

As some fellow sufferers of the Sleep Wake Failure epidemic in High Sierra, I can only update on related events with my iMac, in the hope that this and possibly other threads will reach critical mass for apple to do something about it.

Also I did agree with comments suggesting possible ways of soliciting apple's action towards resolving this obviously significant problem, but my response was removed by apple. Hopefully, this one survives.

In the meantime, could someone, please help with an explanation why the 'AC power' list in the 'System Power Settings' of System Information shows the following entries:

System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 15

Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0

Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5

presumably timers that can be set, while in the 'Energy Saver' section of System Preferences there are only two controls:

Computer sleep

Display sleep

which do not even match those above.

Thank you in advance for any response.

У меня точно такая же проблема( никакие виды переустановки не помогли.. Я даже полностью переустановил систему, форматировал и установил как новый, все осталось как было, это все началось после обновления на high sierra, до этого никаких проблем не было! В apple ни какая консультация не помогла! Осталось попробовать установить более раннюю macos,..Очень странно(, в работе mac абсолютно никаких проблем нет!

Может кто-то решил эту проблему..?

translation of vladimir2270 (not ideal - mostly the gist of it):

I have exactly the same problem (no resettings? helped). I even completely reset the system, formatted and set as new, everything remained as it was, it all started after an upgrade to high sierra, until then there had been no problems! No consultation with apple helped! Remained to try reverse to an earlier macOS, ... Very strange, at work mac has no problems at all! Perhaps someone solved this problem?

and here is my daily gripe:

Report Version: 26

Hardware model: iMac13,1

Time Awake Since Boot: 33000s

I wish 10.13.3 had solved my sleep/wake issue but I’m afraid it didn’t. Any idea when the next update will be. At the rate we are going it will be time to update from High Sierra. Come on Apple please sort this problem for us.

No I’m afraid this certainly is not the solution to the sleep/reboot issue. Wasted another 4 hours of my life installing High Sierra and then had to go back to Sierra. It’s very sad I’ve spent a large amount of money on Apple products iMac, iPad, Apple TV, iPhones and until recently have been happy with things, but it seems that with their change of leadership things are not the same anymore. iPhone battery problems, iPad that runs like a snail due to software updates, and now this sleep/reboot issue. Please Apple look after the people that pay your wages and don’t ignore problems that won’t go away. 🙁

regretfully I have the same issues since I updated to HS on my iMac (21,5", End 2013). I have tried almost everything posted here but nothing helped. Also V10.13.3 did not solve the issue. It is a shame Apple is not able to fix this. I have this reboot every day ever since HS. 😟

This issue will only be solved on the next upgrade.

It's obvious Apple cannot solve the problem as they would have done so by now.

It's the arrogance of not even acknowledging the problem that really annoys me.

Yes I can also confirm

I have a late 2012 27" iMac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 66M 512 MB graphics and I have over the years installed every update available, including Beta software. It is only with High Sierra that I have experienced any sleep/reboot issue, to be honest I've never experienced any issue at all until High Sierra.

I must have tried at least 6 times to install High Sierra with suggestions on this forum but nothing has worked. I'm very disappointed that Apple won't even admit there is a problem, even if they don't know how to fix it at the present time we wouldn't be waisting lots of time trying to fix it ourselves, after all they are the experts! I suppose the only consolation is that Apple don't charge for the new operating system unlike Windows so we are not obliged to update.

This is a very elaborate hypothesis and I wish it could be correct, as the scourge of Sleep Wake Failure (SWF) is taking its toll on my time and work and I can see I am not alone by far. One unfortunate weakness of the hypothesis seems to be that it represents a single case with El Capitan (as far as I am ware), against the overwhelming majority of experiences, all describing the problem appearing after the High Sierra (HS) update. Without disrespecting the issue you have and the probability (however small) your hypothesis might be correct, it seems to me that it is more likely to be an exception.

There is another discussion thread on this site, perhaps some here are already following it, where another interesting hypothesis was put forward by tingdong from 24th Feb.

Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.2

If anything this could be (to some extend) tested by reducing the amount of load before leaving the computer to eventually go into sleep mode.

Good luck

Hello

Exactly the same problem, after I updated to Sierra. That problem was not occurring before.

I went to Genius bar. They checked all hardware configuration. Nothing.

So the only suggestion: reinstall the OS. So , I did !

Problem is still there. Just waisting time !

So , I guess we should wait a patch from Apple.

My first action was : Changing the setting for 'sleep mode', 'energy' , 'screen saver' , all of them to OFF & Never

And the issue was not solved.

Remove ' automatic backup for time machine' has no effect.

Reduce the size of the 'download folder' has no effect 🙂 That was the solution, for 'freezing'...

So, I'm waiting for a patch from Apples's support !

Sorry, I did not realize I needed to take you literally because it seemed so unlikely. So thinking about it another way, it might be possible that if the computer is woken out of sleep often enough i.e. doing backup it will not crash as often. It often took 8 or more hours of sleep for my computer to show the problem.

The computer should be smart enough to realize the backup drive is not available but then anything is possible although not probable.