IBook G4 won't sleep on schedule

I twice tried resetting the PMU as per Apple's instructions (power off then press and release shift, cntrl, option and power buttons) but it hasn't helped. My iBook simply won't sleep when it's scheduled to. The screen darkens when it's supposed to but no sleep.
This is the case both on battery and when plugged in. Both with external keyboard attached and without. Both set at 3 hrs and 1 minute. And it's been happening for several days.
It will only sleep when I close the lid or select sleep from the Apple menu.
Only recent software changes were the latest Apple system updates.
Ideas? Is there something else to reset?
Thanks.

Your method seems to have worked. My clock went back to 7:01 on 12-31-1969 (after I turned off the Airport, that is; the first time I tried this it automatically give me the correct date and time, so I wasn't sure I'd done it right). Then the iBook went to sleep on its own about 30-60 seconds after the screen went dark.
I should note, though, that I didn't wait that extra 30-60 seconds after resetting the PMU the first way. So that first method may have worked, too -- I just assumed it didn't when the iBook didn't go to sleep immediately after the screen dimmed.
Anyway, thanks for the great tip. Any idea why Apple doesn't mention this on its support page on resetting the PMU? Do you know anything else about this issue? Like why the PMU get's screwy to begin with?
Thanks again.

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I haven't plugged in anything new into it or installed any new software. So i don't know what it could be. I tryed zapping the PRAM. Didn't work. I tryed resetting the PMU, but iam not sure if that worked, because my clock wasn't reset. So i don't know what wrong.
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Try resetting the PMU
Best of luck.

IBook Insomnia (Won't Sleep)

Hey All,
Have an iBook G4 1.2 Ghz which is having a sleep issue. Here is what I have tried so far.
-Reset PMU
-http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2083671#2083671
-from this page I deleted the preference files, reboot, repair permissions no good still
-Repaired Permissions, Reboot, Installed Combo Updater 10.4.6, Repaired Permissions, Reboot. No sleep yet
I tried booting to safe mode, and even in safe mode my iBook will not sleep. I have seen some posts elsewhere that say this has been a problem with some recent Tiger point upgrades. I have no idea and any help would be appreciated.
Thanks All
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.25 GB Ram, 120GB 5400 RPM HDD

Here is My Safe Mode Process List:
Active Memory: 46.29 MB
Free Memory: 1.07 GB
Wired Memory: 60.39 MB
Used Memory: 185.27 MB
Inactive Memory: 78.59 MB
Total VM: 2.49 GB
Number of processes: 32
ID Process Name User CPU RSIZE VSIZE
0 kernel_task root 0.60 55.15 MB 969.91 MB
1 launchd root 0.00 492.00 KB 27.68 MB
22 dynamic_pager root 0.00 172.00 KB 26.62 MB
27 kextd root 0.00 3.23 MB 29.91 MB
41 ipfwloggerd root 0.00 176.00 KB 26.60 MB
43 KernelEventAgent root 0.00 740.00 KB 27.57 MB
44 mDNSResponder root 0.00 1,008.00 KB 27.40 MB
45 netinfod root 0.00 572.00 KB 26.94 MB
46 syslogd root 0.00 408.00 KB 26.64 MB
47 cron root 0.00 504.00 KB 26.88 MB
48 configd root 0.00 1.66 MB 29.02 MB
49 coreaudiod root 0.00 848.00 KB 27.71 MB
50 diskarbitrationd root 0.00 1,000.00 KB 27.12 MB
51 memberd root 0.00 600.00 KB 27.65 MB
52 securityd root 0.00 1.43 MB 28.62 MB
54 notifyd root 0.00 456.00 KB 27.20 MB
56 update root 0.00 228.00 KB 26.60 MB
59 DirectoryService root 0.00 2.03 MB 30.05 MB
63 distnoted root 0.00 752.00 KB 27.02 MB
64 blued root 0.00 1.85 MB 36.92 MB
65 lookupd root 0.00 1.07 MB 28.46 MB
70 WindowServer windowserv 9.60 9.24 MB 129.10 MB
71 coreservicesd root 0.00 5.15 MB 32.86 MB
72 ATSServer hardran3 0.00 1.49 MB 72.09 MB
73 loginwindow hardran3 0.00 3.79 MB 95.38 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app
80 pbs hardran3 0.00 1.95 MB 54.93 MB
85 Dock hardran3 0.00 3.27 MB 92.93 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
86 SystemUIServer hardran3 0.20 5.88 MB 112.79 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app
87 Finder hardran3 0.00 6.57 MB 158.61 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
90 UniversalAccessApp hardran3 0.60 3.55 MB 98.63 MB /System/Library/PreferencePanes/UniversalAccessPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources /UniversalAccess.app
95 Activity Monitor hardran3 14.20 9.37 MB 137.41 MB /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app
96 pmTool root 0.30 1.00 MB 36.46 MB
Everything looks normal to me, nothing extra in there. Here is my "usual load" process list:
Active Memory: 136.26 MB
Free Memory: 712.86 MB
Wired Memory: 95.99 MB
Used Memory: 567.14 MB
Inactive Memory: 334.89 MB
Total VM: 5.80 GB
Number of processes: 69
ID Process Name User CPU RSIZE VSIZE
0 kernel_task root 1.20 89.38 MB 1,000.13 MB
1 launchd root 0.00 544.00 KB 27.68 MB
23 dynamic_pager root 0.00 172.00 KB 26.62 MB
27 kextd root 0.00 3.52 MB 29.91 MB
66 ipfwloggerd root 0.00 196.00 KB 26.60 MB
69 KernelEventAgent root 0.00 600.00 KB 27.18 MB
70 mDNSResponder root 0.00 1.04 MB 27.90 MB
71 netinfod root 0.00 584.00 KB 26.94 MB
72 syslogd root 0.00 416.00 KB 26.64 MB
73 cron root 0.00 504.00 KB 26.88 MB
74 configd root 0.00 2.15 MB 29.19 MB
75 coreaudiod root 0.00 944.00 KB 28.05 MB
76 diskarbitrationd root 0.00 1.05 MB 27.12 MB
77 memberd root 0.00 620.00 KB 27.65 MB
78 securityd root 0.00 1.91 MB 28.51 MB
80 notifyd root 0.00 468.00 KB 27.20 MB
87 update root 0.60 228.00 KB 26.60 MB
88 DirectoryService root 0.00 2.09 MB 30.05 MB
91 distnoted root 0.00 884.00 KB 27.02 MB
98 blued root 0.00 1.83 MB 37.05 MB
101 WindowServer windowserv 6.60 28.11 MB 161.07 MB
102 coreservicesd root 0.00 8.62 MB 38.52 MB
104 ATSServer hardran3 0.00 2.07 MB 85.60 MB
105 loginwindow hardran3 0.00 4.09 MB 100.33 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app
130 crashreporterd root 0.00 204.00 KB 26.61 MB
144 sidetrackd root 0.00 1.29 MB 36.79 MB
154 mds root 0.00 4.07 MB 44.16 MB
231 pbs hardran3 0.00 1.92 MB 54.93 MB
233 mdimport nobody 0.00 2.27 MB 39.50 MB
237 Dock hardran3 0.00 5.04 MB 99.46 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
238 SystemUIServer hardran3 0.20 7.93 MB 131.72 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app
240 Finder hardran3 0.00 6.58 MB 158.53 MB /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
243 SideTrackSessionAgent hardran3 0.00 2.96 MB 114.46 MB
244 UniversalAccessApp hardran3 1.20 3.67 MB 114.66 MB /System/Library/PreferencePanes/UniversalAccessPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources /UniversalAccess.app
245 SSHKeychain hardran3 0.00 4.76 MB 120.67 MB /Applications/Utilities/SSHKeychain.app
246 Dashboard KickStart hardran3 0.00 4.12 MB 118.60 MB /Applications/Utilities/Dashboard KickStart.app
247 Adium hardran3 0.00 16.55 MB 175.45 MB /Applications/Adium.app
250 iCalAlarmScheduler hardran3 0.00 3.23 MB 113.78 MB
251 Activity Monitor hardran3 12.10 11.59 MB 139.36 MB /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app
252 mdimport hardran3 0.00 3.65 MB 40.47 MB
258 ssh-agent hardran3 0.00 292.00 KB 26.64 MB
259 pmTool root 0.60 548.00 KB 36.46 MB
263 AirTrafficControl Dashboa hardran3 0.00 7.56 MB 121.19 MB
264 pearLyrics DashboardClien hardran3 0.00 6.07 MB 125.91 MB
265 DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 5.60 MB 119.04 MB
266 ShowOff DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 5.37 MB 120.86 MB
267 iStat nano DashboardClien hardran3 0.00 7.48 MB 121.95 MB
268 k-notes DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 6.50 MB 123.35 MB
269 Weather DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 8.42 MB 120.80 MB
270 k-notes DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 5.85 MB 121.90 MB
271 World Clock DashboardClie hardran3 0.00 6.96 MB 119.96 MB
272 World Clock DashboardClie hardran3 0.00 6.63 MB 119.59 MB
273 Calendar DashboardClient hardran3 0.00 6.50 MB 118.03 MB
307 ntpd root 0.00 380.00 KB 26.86 MB
321 nfsiod root 0.00 192.00 KB 28.61 MB
330 rpc.lockd root 0.00 200.00 KB 26.66 MB
333 automount root 0.00 1.09 MB 29.01 MB
337 automount root 0.00 1.05 MB 28.72 MB
359 Mail hardran3 0.00 10.68 MB 127.48 MB
360 Safari hardran3 0.00 87.06 MB 213.38 MB /Applications/Safari.app
365 AppleSpell hardran3 0.00 2.08 MB 37.73 MB
405 lookupd root 0.00 1.23 MB 28.50 MB
445 loginwindow root 0.00 3.80 MB 65.47 MB
447 ATSServer daemon 0.00 1.97 MB 54.95 MB
452 pbs master 0.00 1.86 MB 54.32 MB
460 Dock master 0.00 5.42 MB 59.34 MB
462 SystemUIServer master 0.00 11.86 MB 138.06 MB
463 Finder master 0.00 10.53 MB 132.73 MB
467 mdimport master 0.00 2.39 MB 39.46 MB
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Ibook insomnia (it won't sleep)

I just recently installed Tiger and now my ibook won't sleep when I request it through apple menu. It will sleep for about 15 seconds and then wakes up on its own. I have checked my energy saver settings and they are set at 10min.
Additionally, when I close the lid it does the same thing sleeping for approx 15seconds and then wakes up. Any suggestions?

i was reading "Troubleshooting Mac OSX Tiger" and it suggested for sleep issues to check the console log and I did so I put my ibook to sleep with the console log open then once it woke up (after a few milliseconds) this is what came up in the log:
Mar 7 23:02:20 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 /Library/StartupItems/SideTrack/sidetrackd: SideTrackSystemPower: System going to sleep, caching user "MaryAnne" UID 501.
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 536870912, partition base 0x8008000, maxio 100000
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 2
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags fc14fc21, gobbling 0 pages
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16111.439 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800] Processing WDH before suspending
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN (Client disAssoc 0)
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 lookupd[433]: lookupd (version 369.2) starting - Tue Mar 7 23:02:21 2006
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 configd[31]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 launchd: Server fa4b in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[433]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Mar 7 23:02:21 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 lookupd[434]: lookupd (version 369.2) starting - Tue Mar 7 23:02:21 2006
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: mappinghibernateflush start
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: mappinghibernateflush time: 88 ms
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: removed hash, pca: 544 pages
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 90 ms
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: pages 128148, wire 17635, act 53928, inact 10417, zf 50, could discard act 19855 inact 26263
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 128148
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: writing 127845 pages
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: image1Size 34865152
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: all time: 6053 ms, comp time: 2036 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: image 159970304, uncompressed 332525568 (81183), compressed 158457076 (47%), sum1 ab32ff20, sum2 44de15aa
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: sleep
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: System Wake
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: Wake event 0020
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: ADB present:84
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16115. 9 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800]:oControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16115. 13 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800]:oControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16115. 17 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800]:oControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16115. 21 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800]:oControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: USBF: 16115. 25 AppleUSBOHCI[0x174e800]:oControlTransfer sync request on workloop thread. Use async!
Mar 7 23:02:33 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: SideTrackUSB error: Trackpad device has been removed, max retries exceeded.
Mar 7 23:02:34 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: SideTrackUSB error: Trackpad underrun, got 17 total bytes.
Mar 7 23:02:35 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "linksys" - 0014bfd5c7e5 - chan 3
Mar 7 23:02:35 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 configd[31]: SecKeychainFindGenericPassword err= -25308 ( =0xffff9d24, secErrStr=User interaction is not allowed. ) (current= linksys)
Mar 7 23:02:38 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 launchd: Server fa4f in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[434]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Mar 7 23:02:38 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 configd[31]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Mar 7 23:02:38 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 lookupd[435]: lookupd (version 369.2) starting - Tue Mar 7 23:02:38 2006
Mar 7 23:02:40 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 /Library/StartupItems/SideTrack/sidetrackd: SideTrackSystemPower: System wake, restoring settings for user "MaryAnne" UID 501.
Mar 7 23:02:40 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 /Library/StartupItems/SideTrack/sidetrackd: SideTrackConfigPush: Setting driver to configuration for UID 501.
Mar 7 23:02:40 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en1 (192.168.1.108); delaying packets by 5 seconds
so is there something alarming going on while my ibook tries to sleep? does the sleeping problem have anything to do with this:
Mar 7 23:02:38 mary-anne-cecilia-p-castanedas-ibook-g4 launchd: Server fa4f in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[434]: exited abnormally: Hangup

Machine won't sleep on it's own.

This may not be a Leopard specific issue, I had it with Tiger also. My eMac and new iMac won't sleep with the HP All-in-One printer software installed. The software has three active apps (one which controls a root process) that won't let it sleep. I can manually sleep it, but the energy saver setting is useless. The display will sleep, but not the machine.
I posted in the eMac category, but this is not machine specific, either, seems to be HP specific.
I trashed the culprit apps, but then I couldn't scan (the device was not found); it did let the machine sleep, though. I tried fixing the permissions after re-installing the latest software from the HP site (a VERY long process), and turning off the printer, still no sleep.
Anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions? I thought maybe if I created an alias for the culprit apps and stored the originals on a removable device, or even a .dmg and only mount it when I need certain printer functions, that may stop them from constantly running.
Any help would be appreciated
Bob
Message was edited by: Robert Treadway

Thanks gws,
My eMac FINALLY achieved sleep last night after about 50 min. I have the sleep timer set for 1 minute, maybe the fact there was a scheduled TM backup kept it awake. I have the printer turned off, and it has been manually slept and re-started since it was turned off, don't know if any of those was a factor.
A few logs from last night/this morning:
Feb 29 23:23:15 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: System Wake
Feb 29 23:23:15 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: Wake event 0020
Feb 29 23:23:15 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "AppleLegacyAudio/AppleTexas2Audio/AppleTexas2Audio.cpp" at line 960 goto Exit
Feb 29 23:23:15 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: ^P
Feb 29 23:23:15 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (OHCI)
Feb 29 23:23:16 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0x4de1,0x0007)
Feb 29 23:34:25 Robert-Treadways-Computer fseventsd[38]: callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) invalid destination port (268435459) for pid 219
Feb 29 23:36:02 Robert-Treadways-Computer Mail[226]: Trying to add a To Do UID (3FA8ABA1-EC04-4B4B-A3D8-B9E27DE7C614) that already exists in the cache and for the same mailbox. Perhaps this should have been an update. Skipping to avoid cyclic reconciliation.
Feb 29 23:36:09 Robert-Treadways-Computer /usr/sbin/ocspd[229]: starting
Feb 29 23:39:04 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Starting standard backup
Feb 29 23:39:04 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Feb 29 23:39:24 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 167.86 GB available
Feb 29 23:39:54 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Copied 3569 files (10.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 29 23:39:55 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 167.84 GB available
Feb 29 23:39:58 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Copied 441 files (32 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 29 23:40:00 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Starting post-backup thinning
Feb 29 23:40:14 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Robert Treadways Computer/2008-01-30-201029: 167.85 GB now available
Feb 29 23:40:19 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Robert Treadways Computer/2008-02-27-231957: 167.86 GB now available
Feb 29 23:40:19 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
Feb 29 23:40:19 Robert-Treadways-Computer /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[236]: Backup completed successfully.
Mar 1 00:00:35 Robert-Treadways-Computer newsyslog[260]: logfile turned over
Mar 1 00:00:35 Robert-Treadways-Computer newsyslog[260]: logfile turned over
Mar 1 00:11:00 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: System Sleep
Mar 1 05:55:37 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: System Wake
Mar 1 05:55:37 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: Wake event 0020
Mar 1 05:55:37 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "AppleLegacyAudio/AppleTexas2Audio/AppleTexas2Audio.cpp" at line 960 goto Exit
Mar 1 05:55:37 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: ^P
Mar 1 05:55:37 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (OHCI)
Mar 1 05:55:39 Robert-Treadways-Computer kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex (PHY regs 5,6:0x4de1,0x0007)
I had anacron installed, but removed it the best I could, it is not needed in Leopard.........
Thanks for the advice, gws, maybe your system would react the same after re-start and/or sleep with printer turned off?
Bob
P.S. Be sure your Mail is not set to check for new mail every 1 minute, that will stop sleep, too
Message was edited by: Robert Treadway

Won't sleep

Hello,
I have an iBook G4 running 10.4.11. Just had the HD replaced (original failed). All seems to be working fine, with one exception: the computer won't sleep according to the Energy Saver settings.
I have it set to display sleep after 3 minutes, HD sleep after 4 min. The display sleep works, but the HD sleep doesn't. I believe all was working prior to HD replacement.
The computer does sleep if I close the lid or command a sleep from the apple menu.
Any thoughts?

Yes, I did search the boards. Most people seem to experience trouble getting the computer to sleep when the close the screen, or w/ intermittent sleep. I didn't see anyone else w/ the particular problem I'm having.
I had thought I might trash the system preferences preferences (systempreferences.plist), but I'm not sure what other carnage that will unleash...

Won't sleep when I close the lid - HELP!

A while ago, my iBook G4 1GHz was knocked off of a table. The display was smashed and the whole display assembly was destroyed. I bought a new (used) display assembly and installed it. Worked fine, but when I closed the lid, the iBook woudn't sleep. I checked the placement of the magnet in the top case and I reset the PMU. Still no sleep. So I contacted the company that sold me the display and got a different one. Still won't sleep when I close the lid. I checked all of the energy settings, reset the PMU and even tried to force sleep with a magnet from another broken iBook. Still no sleep when I close the lid. It will sleep when I choose sleep from the Apple menu (OS Tiger) and when it sits for a while with the lid open, but not when I close the lid. Any thoughts?

My original problem has not been solved. The iBook still won't go to sleep when I close the lid. I have checked out any possible software causes, and have ruled them out. I have checked to make sure no keys were being pressed when I closed the lid. I took a magnet from another iBook top case and ran it down the side of the display to try to force sleep. No effect. I don't have any Firewire or USB devices attached, to that's not it. Apple, this board, PBFixit.com, and my local Apple-affiliated repair center have no idea why I am having this problem. Two display assemblies have experienced this problem. The original display had been destroyed in a drop. Could some internal damage, like maybe to the logic board, result in such a problem? It's odd that I am the only person out there who has had this problem. Weird, to be sure.

New iMac display won't sleep?

Hi, new iMac 24", 10.5.7, set screen saver at 5 minutes, and display to sleep at 10 minutes. Screen saver works, but it will not sleep. I've changed the setting, and rebooted, still no luck.
I tried everything from suggestions, with no help. I found that if I turn off "screen sharing" in system preferences, it will sleep the display for whatever minutes I set. I have to leave "screen sharing" on because I have flat screen tv hooked up to watch video files on, and I use iPhone app to control screen, to hit play and pause, etc. It is set up with a password, and only my iPhone is used when I am watching something. Why should screen sharing stop display from sleeping? I've left screen sharing on since I got this, so I can remotely log in with "back to my mac" from the road, and it never stopped the display from sleeping before? I shouldn't have to turn off screen sharing just to sleep the display? Am I missing something?

This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Allan Jones says "sometimes there is Network activity: launch System Preferences > Energy Saver > "Options" tab and uncheck "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access."
Good Luck!  DALE

Powerbook won't sleep after OS install and update

I replaced the original hard drive with a new drive, installed OS 10.4 from the boot disk, updated to 10.4.11, replaced original apps and user folder via Carbon Copy Cloner. Machine runs great, but won't Sleep, either from Apple menu or closing the lid, wakes up in 1-2 seconds. Had no problems prior to swap.
Airport and Bluetooth are off, nothing plugged into the port. Trashed bluetooth.plist and restarted. Checked Energy Saver, set to "drive sleep when possible". Nothing new showing in StartUp items, or Activity monitor. Same whether battery or plugged in.
The only diiference is that I typo'd my user name. I created a new Sys Prefs/Account, then deleted the old account. I've run Apple Disk Utility Repair/Permissions amd Onyx maintenance. Nothing scheduled to run in CCC or Onyx.
Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks BGreg,
I did Software Update via WiFi. It took multiple passes, as Java would install, Software Update would recheck, and then download the next version. Took about 5 passes, with 2-3 restarts to have everything updated vai S.U.
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Macbook Pro won't sleep properly.

Hello;
I have a problem with my mid 2009 13'' MacBook Pro that won't sleep properly.
Whenever I close the lid, or chose ->Sleep, it takes a few seconds and the system sleeps (fan off, led fading off) , but INMEDIATELY after just a few miliseconds, the system wakes up again (fan on, led on, hdd spinning).
This sequence happens again and again indefinitely (sleeps / wake / sleeps / wake, and so on...)
Then I open the lid and everything works as expected.
So far I tried all this, with no luck:
- I've installed a clean Mountain Lion from scratch.
- The system is untoched: no new apps installed, no new drivers installed.
- All sharings are disabled.
- Bluetooth is disabled.
- Infrared port is disabled.
- There's nothing attached to the computer except from the magsafe cable.
- There are no background processes preventing the system from sleep (checked using "pmset -g assertions")
- There is no disc loaded in the optical unit.
- "Wake for network access" is disabled in Preferences->Energy Saver.
- SMC y PRAM reseted several times.
As you can see, I don't know what else to try...
I would REALLY appreciate any help or suggerence.
Thanks in advance,
Nicolas.

A SMC will not have any results with this, in my past experince. Surprisingly the loginin items is the usual culprit. Try option, command, delete (don't hold these keys ,just press them)and wait till it goes to sleep, and stays that way. Then if it stays aslep try closing the lid. Disconnect all peropherals. Try system preferences>energy saver, make sure comouter sleep is ot set to never, as well as the display on both power adapter and battery. On the same pane, click schedule and make sure the start up or wake is not clicked. Also try a Ssfe boot: Power off, power back on holding the shift key, coninue to hold the shift key till you see the progress bar.This will disable all 3rd party software (it some times fixes some stufff) try the sleep menu under the Apple, or the option,command,delete. Hope this offers some help. If yourMBP is new, less thsn 1 year old, or you have Applecare, I would let them deal with it. You have a warranty,USE IT! All the best
Close all applications/operations.
You ca try a pram reset for the heck of it, in case there is somrthing strange in there that needs to be flushed.
Pram reset: Power off, power on, hold the following keys before the start chime. option,comman,P,R (no commas) and continue to hold the keys till you hear thestart chime 2 times then relesase.Reboot.
Good luck

IMac won't sleep and freezes on shutdown

My iMac has developed an annoying problem. Most nights, when I try to put the computer to sleep, it goes to sleep and the immediately wakes back up. I exit all programs running in the dock and try to sleep it again, but the same thing happens. I will then try to shut it down, but it freezes on the screen that shows the wheel with the lines (sorry for the bad description there). Any ideas?

Here's more on sleep;
This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Good Luck!  DALE

Won't Sleep Automatically

Strange happening: I can manually put the computer to sleep, and when I close the lid it goes to sleep. However... it will not go to sleep at the time set in the Energy Saver Preference Panel. Thoughts?
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This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
First, read things in Apple doc.#25801 on sleep settings.
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to recieve faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Recieve Faxes On This Computer box.
If that does'nt work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Cheers!
DALE

Pro won't sleep automatically

Bought a new pro and used migration assistant to move stuff from my iMac.
Now the Pro won't sleep automatically. It sleeps when I tell it to or on Schedule at 0100 but not after x mins of inactivity.
The iMac it migrated from had no such issues.
Is there any reset I can do to cure the problem?

I have about a 2 year Mac pro (intel) and it will not sleep on its own. I can manually sleep it.
The hard drive cycles up and down about every 2 minutes or so continually and the display remains blank. It will keep cycling the drive until I manually sleep it.
I tried a few times doing the reset thing and once it helped but in a week or so it started to do it again. I went and made up a new user and it seemed to fix it for a month and then it want back to doing it again. It is very annoying. I even updated it to Leopard and it sill did it. I'll try the reset again and see.

Insomnia - - My Mac won't SLEEP

Hi folks,
I just re-installed OS 10.5.4, ... and began to have a couple buggy behaviours:
Primarily, my computer won't respond when I try to put it in SLEEP mode.
Also, there is a funky little 1/4" square that appears in every window that opens. Clicking & dragging over it makes it go away, but it then reappears on the next open window.
p.s. In an attempt to 'fix' these anomolies, I downloaded the upgrade to 10.5.8 but this didn't help.
Any ideas ????? (This is my second post... with no responses).
Thanks,
P

This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is Apple's KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Allan Jones says "sometimes there is Network activity: launch System Preferences > Energy Saver > "Options" tab and uncheck "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access."
Good Luck!  DALE

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