Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.2

Logan, only a small addition to jtonn's comment, the SWF problem discussed in this thread involves arbitrary, unintended and complete system reboots. Assuming this not being the situation in your case, it could be related to my previous comment, suggesting that the 10.13.5 also modifies the pmset parameters default values (possibly in an attempt to address the darn SWF). It is unlikely that people have kept records of what the settings were before their updates, but if someone has this could help corroborate my guesses.

If it turns out that an automatic and unannounced change of a setting is used to avoid rather than eliminate the SWF issue, in some cases it may not work and in others, like Logan's for example, it could even make things worse.

Requiring specific parameter value limitations, in order to avoid underperformance or malfunction, at the least should be officially documented, if not completely removed, as parameter ranges should work for all allowed vaulues for all users without product performance deterioration.

I've had my Late 2012 iMac in sleep mode now for 4 days and have just woke it up and apart from it waking up from Safe Sleep Mode, everything has worked as normal, no error message and no random re-start in the middle of the night. From looking through the comments on the last few pages, there is one thing that I have done that has not come up in the last few comments of what people have tried to do. I have switched off the feature that allows my iMac to be woke up from sleep mode by any bluetooth device. I have not re-anabled this feature as I am happy to wait the 30 seconds while it connects to the bluetooth device than risk switching it on and the issues coming back.

I'm not sure what I can put here in-tearms of my settings set-up to help others, so if you have any questions please ask and I'll do my best to reply as quick as I can.

I use Parallels too and I think its "checking for update" don't cause the problem. Instead of this, every time that my Mac (High Sierra 10.13.5) goes to sleep mode I have to reboot later... and almost every time Parallels was running when the failure happened.

Greetings! I am having this issue too. My Mac is 2010 but it's still going strong! I upgraded to High Sierra. Has anyone resolved this issue? I was worried that it was my hard drive failing and I needed a new Mac but it seems that many people are having issues.

Please advise!

Many thanks,

It's really bizarre but I'm not experiencing SWFs anymore. I did anything, I keep waking my Mac up with Watch, and several proceses on course... Parallels with a Windows 10 instance running for instance. Everything is going right now. 😐

I updated to 10.13.6 once it came out last week. I still have Power Nap turned on but I notice that my iMac (late 2013) actually seems to be asleep in the morning before I wake it. Under 10.13.5, I could hear it running although the screen was off while on PN. So, something has changed with this latest update.

Next step will be trying to turn PN off to see if that restores the old behavior that existed under 10.12.x

And another one in less than a week.

Report Version: 26

Hardware model: iMac13,1

Time Awake Since Boot: 80000s

It takes me enormous will power not to express my feelings in a way that would spring moderators into action.

On the otherhand, I sincerely apologise to all that might have been bothered by my postings if I am the sole benefitiary of this wonderful feature.

Ghogoh,

I see that you're still running 10.13.5. I suggest that you update to 10.13.6. I noticed changes in the way sleep behaves after updating. Under 10.13.5, my iMac would often be semi-awake (screen dark, hard drive spinning) when I accessed it in the morning. Under 10.13.6, that is rarely the case. I am still running with Power Nap enabled. Under 10.13.6, it will take about 5 seconds for it to come fully awake to where I can enter my password. Much better than the minute or two that it takes if it goes into Safe Sleep when Power Nap is disabled.

Thank you, Jtonn,

Really appreciate your considerate and quick reply. I have been aware of the 10.13.6 being out of recent, however, I thought it was still in beta only. Strangely, even at this moment, when I 'check for updates', it tells me 'no updates available'. It was a similar situation when I first downloaded the High Sierra - even though there was no notification for an available update, I went enthusiastically to the new OS download page and that was when the swf started. The awful experience for the last six months has made me almost supersticiously hesitant.

Anyway, I shall follow up shortly. Thanks again.

I had this same issue for awhile now. I finally fixed if tonight (I hope). Always double reset, wouldn’t come out of sleep when I opened it up. For some reason one of my USB ports stopped working too. I tried every reset, reinstall, SMC, PRAM, network configuration, energy saver settings, etc. None of it worked.

I did a complete wipe of the hard drive, installed the original OS by booting with internet recovery for facotry OS (Shift+Option+Command+R) and installing Mountain Lion 10.8 (mid-2012 MBP). Next I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5. I have NOT and don’t plan to upgrade up to High Sierra again. As of tonight... my computer is faster, it wakes almost immediately every time (so far) and my USB ports work again. We’ll see if it holds up. I will jusy have to use older versions of a few pieces of software for this machine, but it saved me buying a new one.

Just to keep the ball rolling: same problem on my 27" late 2012 iMac - OS 10.13.6. This is a work computer, so I'm not running anything out of the ordinary: most are core apps, plus Logic Pro and the messaging app "Telegram". Other than that, nothing weird.

It seems to me - and it's an observation, so I could be wrong - that the longer the Mac has been in sleep mode, the more unlikely it is to wake.

In all other respects the machine works fine... but it is irritating and Apple should be looking to fix this.

Here is my tuppence of an update. Following a sudden and disappointing disruption of about a month of SWF-free interval on 10.13.5 and the subsequent resurrection of hope, a week ago, with moving to 10.13.6, kindly prompted by jtonn, I have been without SWF events since. I shall deem this a miracle, since no reasonable explanation has been put forward and my iMac has been running the same applications all the time since the beginning of this sorry saga. Just hope this is not yet another disposable miracle.

Fingers crossed! For any who still have the SWF problem after updating to 10.13.6, I highly recommend turning on "Power Nap" in your "Energy Saver" preferences. There were changes made in that release that have modified the behavior of my iMac when I wake it. It now seems to be "asleep" more often than not when I wake it in the morning. It does take about 5 or 10 seconds to come awake enough with a screen allowing me to enter my password, but that is preferable to the couple minutes when in "Safe Sleep" with Power Nap disabled. Those of you with an SSD may have the advantage as far as your machine becoming responsive.

Sadly, while lying in bed reading last night, I heard the dreaded double chime of restart from my iMac. SWF once again. This was with 10.13.6 installed with Power Nap enabled. 2,100,000 seconds (~24 days) since last restart. That's about when I installed 10.13.6. So disappointing and frustrating. Perhaps, when Mojave is released in a couple months, we'll finally be able to relegate this sorry saga to the dustbin of history.