Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.4

I agree. This update is garbage... MacBook won't wake without hard restart . safari won't open half the pages I navigate to, Chrome will not open at all and neither will firefox, external monitor is not recognized ... Really disappointed with this one!!

Hi, I was very optimistic with yesterday’s security update. I turned sleep back on and left the computer alone. After about 3 hours I heard it restart all by itself with 2 startup chimes, an Apple logo, progress bar and a grey login screen. So sadly didn’t work for me. I don’t understand why pride cannot be swallowed and Apple can’t think of customers who have given them thousands of pounds/dollars to ‘benefit’ from a good user experience.

System-wide power settings:

Currently in use:

standbydelay 10800

standby 1

womp 1

halfdim 1

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

powernap 0

gpuswitch 2

networkoversleep 0

disksleep 0

sleep 0

autopoweroffdelay 28800

hibernatemode 3

autopoweroff 1

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 3

tcpkeepalive 1

acwake 0

lidwake 1

Restoring to defaults and then turning on "prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" doesn't fix it (it does toggle the "sleep" setting, though). I'll try the settings you suggested.

I don't know what else to tell you, I am basically now keep submitting bug reports to Apple to push them to get it fixed. I am also doing this with clean machines and clean install to eliminate non-Apple related software issues.

Does anyone know a rough time frame of when we should expect OS 10.13.5?

Also, I've noticed my startup screen is now grey instead of the usual blurred background when turning the computer on. I'm sure this has been since the last security update. Is this normal?

MotoMcLovin wrote:

Does anyone know a rough time frame of when we should expect OS 10.13.5?

Also, I've noticed my startup screen is now grey instead of the usual blurred background when turning the computer on. I'm sure this has been since the last security update. Is this normal?

It better not be soon because this sleep-wake issue is still on beta 3. It seems each update release fixes something and breaks some new stuff.

10.13 is probably one of the worst OS I've seen. It is enterprise "unfriendly" or even "hostile" and buggy (#iamroot anyone?). I rather fall back to 10.12 if I can choose again.

I am having the same issue. Apple has really hit it out the park with 10.13.4. I had to roll back because they broke external displays, I didn't even have time to notice this issue. Then I installed it because the display issue was fixed, and now sleep is broken.

MotoMcLovin wrote:

Does anyone know if the latest beta 4 version of os 10.13.5 released yesterday has fixed the sleep/wake problem?

Nope. It's the same, freezes on password prompt on wake up from hibernate.

I also want to point out I am still on HFS+ due to File Vault security token issues

Sorry guys, I am on vacation for 2 weeks and is back next week. I will give 10.13.5 a go and the new 10.13.6 beta and report back if this issue is solved.

It did work pretty well on my test Macbook Air 2017, I will have to check if there is a regression between beta 5 and release.

It's absolutely ridiculous that a bug which has a huge impact on such a basic feature has still not been fixed.
I'm using 2 Macs since years and this will be my last ones. I'm an IT professional maintaining > 200 macs and I can therefore say: the quality of the OS and hardware is so close from hitting rock bottom.

mmeskimen - thanks! Update 3 to your post of 6/3/18 tells me all that I need to know -- skip 10.13.5, no progress on the sleep/wake bug, still have to shut down every night. (Reminds me of another OS I used to use). Tried to indicate that your reply was helpful, but the button was desensitized!?

Ok this bug will never get fixed because apple doesn't care at all.

What are our options now ?

MacOS Sierra is no longer available on the app store, I don't have any Time Machine backup for my computer .. but I do have an old mac mini running Sierra. Do you think I might time machine backup this mac mini and restore this backup to my iMac ??

Turned out my computer wasn't going to sleep after all. The problem is that the wifi disconnects after a while when the screen is off, making it look as if it had been in sleep mode. I'll open a new thread for this problem.

My own personal variation on this problem is that I experience the sleep wake failure when I connect my sleeping MacBook Pro (mid-2015) to my Thunderbolt Display and attempt to wake it. High Sierra 10.13.6.