Leopard Sleep Freeze

If your computer freezes after going into sleep mode... I found if you delete all the WIDGETS this will take care of the problem... Most widgets are for 10.4 and not working on Leopard.
Hope this helps the many of you having problems.

I just wanted to clarify your advice. Do you mean to remove your widgets from the Dashboard, thereby making them inactive? Or do you mean delete your widgets from your computer completely?
While I'm at it, when my computer freezes coming back from sleep, it will often freeze up after the reset leading to a kernel panic that describes a problem with the ATA device. I recently upgraded my start-up drive, and I'm wondering if this problem is 1)purely Leopard-related 2)purely new HD-related or 3)a combination of both. I did (yesterday) reset my PRAM . . . which I should have probably done as soon as I removed and replaced my start-up drive.
Thanks (in advance) for the clarification and any advice!
I just removed the widgets to make them inactive... I had read in another discussion group, that some widgets, like weather widget can cause the system to not wake up after going to sleep... This is what was happening to me after I installed Leopard... I've had issues with an older USB card reader that was not mac friendly... I replaced it with a mac card reader... Also Parallels was a pain in the butt, so I'm now using Leopard Boot Camp with VIsta... That was working great until I downloaded CA Security for windows... Then all **** broke loose so I deleted CA Security and all is running fine. So far as a six month new user of imac and apple products, I find most of my problems are related to third party issues... Except for Apple Aperture which is an awful, outdated and over expensive piece of software.

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The macbook has the following problems:
1. When closing the lid or pressing the power button the computer freezes, the fans start spinning fast it stays like that until it drains the battery. This happens every time.
2. Start-up times are very long, like 3 or 4 minutes. This also happens every time.
3. Now after a fresh snow leopard install it doesn't even start up completely, as it stays with the blue background and I can hear the music of the introductory animation.
The macbook worked ok with the factory installed Tiger. The SL DVD is OK, as its installation has been tested on another Mac. The machine's advanced hardware test passed successfully. Resetting Pram and similar actions were unsuccessful as solving the problem.
I don't know what else to do... please help.

So mine started doing some of the same things. It freezes when it goes into sleep mode. Then it starts to get really really hot and the drive starts spinning fast. It also takes a very long time to boot up. And it's unresponsive sometimes. I've wiped the drive and reinstalled a few times, but it's still like that. I don't know what's wrong.

Leopard completely freezes - is this a known bug?

Greetings,
since I've installed Leopard 10.5.4 on my MacBook Pro the day it came out, I have this weird behavior that sometimes Leopard completely freezes on me, i.e. doesn't accept mouse or keyboard input, nor does any application respond, no crashing or warning prompts.
This happens while I am either doing regular routines or on the Internet and my only chance was to hit the power button. In total 3 times over the past weeks. I can't say which application or setting might cause this. For example it happened when I switched from VMWare to Entourage. Another time after closing XCode or by working in MS Office for Mac.
I know that this decription isn't very specific, but I was wondering if that's a known bug and if anyone else experienced this?
Should I run any system tool after this type of reboot which I believe is everything but best practice?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Alex
Message was edited by: Alex Wied

Is the cache cleaning for you s standard practice after each OS X update? If not i recommend it. Try with Leopard Cache Cleaner or Onyx.
Regards
Simon

Snow Leopard Crash / Freezing Issue - Keyboard Dead - Hard Reboot Required

Good morning,
Been using Snow Leopard on a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac pretty much since the day of launch. Initially was very pleased, no real problems, seemed to run even smoother than regular Leopard, however, recently, my system has developed a bunch of issues, particularly when running word and/or transmission (possibly other apps, but I have noticed with these two so far).
The main problem is, very randomly, the system will lock-up. This can be after 1 hour or 24 hours, there is no real correlation. After the lock up, you are able to use open apps, ie Transmission, Word, Safari, Finder, etc, but they do not function correctly...for example
Word - You can click into documents, but any keyboard strokes are completely ignored.
Safari - You can browse links on default start page, etc, but you cannot create new tabs or type anything into the address bar.
Finder - You can browse folders; but you cannot perform any functions such as dragging to trash, etc.
Also worth noting, it the main menu bar at the top of the screen continues to say either "Word" or "Transmission" etc, regardless of what application you are in. Clicking on any applications icons in the dock has no response unless they were already running.
The system is unable to shut down or log off, and you cannot quit apps. The only option is to do a hard reset via holding down the power off button.
Note: My system is set to never sleep. There is no screensaver.
Any advice would be gratefully received. I'm a fairly new mac user so i'm not aware how to view log files etc., which may identify the problem.
Many thanks in advance.

Just want to reiterate. I am seeing freeze issues with my iMac 2.8 GHZ 4GB ram and wireless keyboard and magic mouse. Had this for two years without problem. When a freeze occurs mouse is reponsive but clicks don't give result. I am unable to open window to force quit apps. It may be related to iTunes but I can't confirm. Happening again now, even as I type this I can't open other appslike console log. I add more later.
Jamie

Leopard Install Freezes at 'About 30 minutes' screen...

Hello,
My wife's black MacBook was having some crazy issues I have never seen before. The finder was incredibly slow, the corners of every single window you opened were black (just the tips of the corners) and it would take around 3-5 minutes to open even a folder, then an additional minute to load any items within.
We decided to copy everything she might want to keep and do a fresh install from our Leopard DVD, however every single time it gets to where it says 'Time Remaining: About 30 minutes' and just freezes (it starts by saying the install will only take 31 minutes). The disc stop spinning and it will eventually put itself to sleep.
I can use all the menus to quit the install from the menu bar but no matter what I have tried, I can't seem to get past that 30 minute mark. I tried reformatting the hard drive and literally starting from nothing but that didn't work either.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.

Have you run the +Apple Hardware Test?+
If it's an Intel processor: [Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509].
Or if it's a PPC, the AHT's on one of the disc(s) that came with your Mac, and is tailored to it's particular hardware. The disk should have +Apple Hardware Test+ and instructions for running it printed in very tiny type.

Sleep freeze when playing games

i have a MAC OS X panther version 10.3.9 and during gameplay, i play world of warcraft, it goes to sleep while i play and thereby freezing the game and then i have to force quit it and start all over and it gets really annoying after a while and i tried cleaning where air get through and it kept going to sleep other players online get mad at me because i always get disonnected Also sometimes it even goes to sleep during regular use I have already email the game developers and they told me to get a temperature monitor and i noticed that it goes to sleep when it reaches a maximum of at least 85 degrees
Does anyone know what i should do?
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

"i played today and i tried putting a fan behind my computer and after thirty minutes it went to sleep while i was gaming online"
I'm sorry to hear that - it doesn't sound good at all that you tried to cool it, but it still overheats. You should click on the "Support" tab at the top of this page, scroll down until on the right side you see "About Your Support Coverage," enter your iMac's serial number in the box, and click the "Go" button to find out how long your first generation iMac G5 is still under warranty.
If still under warranty, call Apple to start a service ticket on it immediately, and make a note of the ticket number they give you. If not still under warranty, and you do not have an AppleCare Protection Plan, you should have it checked out by an Apple certified repair technician to see if it will be covered under the "iMac G5 Repair Extension Program" that I mentioned previously in an above post.
I would be certain of that possibility of free service under the special program, prior to beginning to work on it myself. If you are denied any free service, then it wouldn't matter any more and you can fiddle with it to your heart's content. Remember that with a valuable lcd display, your iMac will still have value, so be careful not to treat it as if it's worthless.
The first gen iMac G5 is user serviceable without impacting the warranty at all, as long as your work is confined to the areas accessed in the Do-It-Yourself Instructions. As an example, since those instructions do not include how to remove the lcd display, your warranty could be voided if you were to remove it. Anything that is listed as user serviceable in those instructions should be relatively easy for most owners to do for themselves, but most people can realize how far there own ability extends by reading those instructions. Good luck.

My iMac 10.6.8 w/ snow leopard keeps FREEZING/CRASHING??

ok lets see if i can type this without my computer freezing.
SO. to begin, i have a iMac 10.6.8 which also has snow leopard. I have recently downloaded many things, that ended up not working so i deleted them. I dont know if thats whats been slowing it down (the downloads still being installed but deleted from trash?) but lately my computer has been very glitchy. I dont have apple care or whatever, so i cant call.
This morning there was a "software update" so i decided, whatever, i'll do it. When i did, i rebooted and now my computer is freezing like a mother.
It is VERY ANNOYING and i dont know how to fix it. It just freezes randomly to. I go on safari for a minute, freeze, then hold power button to reboot.
or i click on another thing, freeze, hold power to reboot.
pretty much everything sets it off. I need to know WHY!? i have had it for a long time and its never been this bad. Another thing that sets it off is runescape. i play it from time to time when im bored, and now it freezes every time. but runescape isnt the only thing that freezes it, it freezes on everything else to. its so frustrating!!!!!!!!
i dont know what to do!?
i have tried these:
-online downloads for mac cleanup
-restart and hold apple+S
-restart and hold apple+option+P+R
-software update
i dont know what else to do. is there something i can download to clean up un-used apps. or unistall items?
i just want to play my games and have my iMac run smoothley. if anyone can help thatd be awsome.
skype me: castrojake
i just want someone who has had this happen, and fixed to help me out.
its an iMac 20 inch Mid 2007
10.6.8 with snow leopard

Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

Leopard sleep problem which seems related to Entourage 2008...

Hi all,
I have a MBP (3,1) running 10.5.2 and I noticed about 3 months ago that if I left the lid open the energy saver triggered sleep wouldn't kick in (very hot laptop next morning syndrome).
I've read a number of other threads on Leopard auto-sleep problems (which pointed to the HP AIO frameworks) but this doesn't appear to be the same issue I have...
If I quit Entourage 2008 then the computer will sleep after the correct period of time - and that's with no other changes to my normal use. Of course I'd like to not have to worry about quitting Entourage each time I might, maybe, just possibly not be back at the computer for a while.
Now in the system log I do keep getting the following strange entries:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Entourage.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Entourage[914]: Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors.
I have no idea what this really does and I do appear to have such a file in the system called X509Anchors...
If I switch Entourage to Offline mode then the entries don't appear in the system log anymore but... the unit still won't sleep. It requires Entourage not to be running it seems.
Having not seen anything else on the discussions forum relating to Entourage 2008 preventing auto-sleep I'm beginning to wonder whether it's just me?!?
Anyone else seeing this effect? And most importantly, does anyone know of a fix?
I have tried the NMS sleep utility stuff and although it worked perfectly whilst I was testing it using Energy saver timings of 1 minute... as soon as I upped the time back to my usual 30 minutes for CPU sleep it failed to work again.
Any help much appreciated.

Ok two things based on the crash report and the steps you took right before the crash:
# Try to disable scrolling acceleration and restart Firefox. Does it continue to crash?
# Try Safe Mode and do the same task as above with email and the pdf [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]
# Also pdf.js may be helpful to read pdfs in the meantime. You can change the default reader in the Preferences/Options > Application menu of Firefox.
# Try to clear out the downloads folder and update flash to version 14 (that should do it)
IF it crashes again please also provide the new crash signatures and we can take a look :-) Sorry for the crashing :-(

Leopard partially freezes up.

I'll return to my brand new 24" iMac to find network activity is dead, the Dock is completely unresponsive (mouseover does nothing, likewise any other attempted interaction), command-tab is dead, the Apple menu can be accessed, but nothing results from it, I cannot bring up force quit either from the KB shortcut or the Apple menu, some programs will have the spinning beachball of death, others that can be accessed (by clicking on their window, if I'm lucky and it's not covered by a hung program's windows) but upon closing a window or quitting the app it too hangs.
This has happened six times now over a two week period.
To summarise: the Mac's networking is unresponsive (other Macs on the same LAN are fine, it isn't anything other than this one Mac), the Dock is totally frozen, Force Quit cannot be accessed, and apps hang when I do anything more serious than look at them.
I can no longer trust this new Mac to stay up and running while I am gone. This is but one of many annoying issues I am having with it. I've been through three wipes of the HD and clean reinstalls of Leopard to try and fix earlier problems (which still continue to occur). This is also my second iMac. The first was declared DOA in under eight hours. So I'm not having a lot of luck here.
Also - these forums appear to be suffering serious issues. It took several tries to try and post this message. I am getting the errors:
"500 Unable to insert thread into the database: No operations allowed after connection closed.
Resin Professional 3.0.23 (built Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:25:17 PST)"
"Not allowed to post messages more than once every 30 seconds." (but I haven't)
Plus upon login I was asked to create a user account???
Oh, and the drafts saved are incomplete. Nothing is working right with these forums.

What are you calling a clean install? This article explains the different installation options available:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
If you mean erase and install, it does sound like you have a hardware issue if you are getting partial freezes with no non-Apple devices connected to the computer and no non-Apple software installed. If any of these conditions is untrue, you have to eliminate all other potential causes this way after backing up your data at least twice to verify you definitely have a hardware issue with the computer. Bad RAM can cause such issues as my FAQ* here explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/badram.html
And can often start without warning because no RAM can be tested for errors accurately. If it reports errors in a test, you can believe it. If it doesn't report errors in a test, you can't believe it.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Sleep Freeze

My MBP is not going to sleep when I close the lid. When I open the lid the computer is froze and I have to do a hard reboot. This is a new development. Any thoughts on this?

My wife has a MBP unibody. Freezes all the time. No mouse movement, no beachball, just a total freeze. Used to happen a lot when clamshell-closed with an external monitor. Also happened frequently when she would leave it, screen saver would activate, then fans would be running high but no response.
I've read a LOT of message boards on the issue. It's frequently hard to narrow things down as so many people have different scenarios - Kingston memory (not me), different OS, different machines, external monitors, etc.
Genius Bar did full hardware diagnostics, found nothing. They did an archive-install, still happened.
So I've installed smcFanControl on the suggestion of a few forums and have eliminated all her freezes except 1. I was hoping that with higher fan speeds and a cooler mac that it wouldn't freeze anymore. If it DID freeze, then I'd see the last termperature in the menubar......but I got unlucky. The screen was asleep when it froze. However, that does still lend credibility to the theory that it is temperature related.
As for 10.5.7 and 10.5.6.....sounds like those of you who archived/installed up to 10.5.6 only don't have the problem. We are 10.5.7, and I'm not about to do another archive-install. However, based on the preponderance of the evidence. this sure sounds like 10.5.7 lets the temp get too hot and the things freezes. I'm going to put a targus cooling-pad under her machine as well to see if I can't get her internal fans to run less and keep it cool. HOpefully that will also continue to decrease the freezes.
We as a group of users really have to narrow this down and then get Apple to roger-up and fix the problem. THis is totally unacceptable. I have an original MBP (not the unibody) and it is a road-warrior. It has taken a lickin' and still tickin. I run it with about 2 GB of free hard drive space, it only has 2GB of memory, but it runs like a trooper I'm afraid to upgrade it because it sounds like the upgrade would be a downgrade.

Macbook Air with Snow Leopard is freezing

I have a first gen, fully updated, Macbook Air currently running Snow Leopard.
Every once in a while, my computer completely freezes. No pinwheel, just a freeze. I can see the cursor, but I can't move it. It happens every few minutes and the freezes last for 10-30 seconds (sometimes even longer).
It doesn't have to do with heat because sometimes this will happen right when I open my computer. And sometimes it will do it after I've been working for an hour or so. Also, it's not limited to the programs that it does it on. It could be Firefox, MS Word, or no program at all.
It's very random, but it's happening more and more often (just happened while typing this question!! about a minute long freeze)

Check your Activity Monitor and see what your CPU power and memory are doing. How full is your hard drive?
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Desktop picture - wake from sleep freeze

It has taken me a long time to find the origin of my wake from sleep problem but it seems to relate to my use of one of my folders for my desktop and/or screen saver. Knowing a system freeze is not good for the long term stability of my system I have not fully tracked down the problem, but I do know that if I set my main monitor (Eizo 240W) to use one of my folders for its screen saver and desktop images I will get a wake from sleep failure. I have a macpro with 10.5.1 and x1900 card with the Eizo and a 17" dell attached. 8 megs of memory, three internal drives. I have trashed the related prefs to no avail. It's not worth a re-install as using the standard Mac images for a backdrop and screen saver seem to work fine. All the images are reasonably small jpgs of about the size of the screen itself. Any thoughts?

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Leopard keeps freezing after 15 minutes

After clean installing with Leopard, my computer keeps freezing up about every 10 or 15 minutes. I thought it was dashboard or spotlight but I'm not so sure. I disabled spotlight but there seems to be something else running in the background. It sounds like something is processing in the background like something is installing or updating because I can hear my hardrive and cpu working. Everything freezes except for my mouse. Any thoughts?

Run Applications / Utilities / Activity Monitor and select "All Processes" from the pull down menu at the top. Click on the CPU column to sort by CPU activity. See if you can determine what process is using up too much processor time.
At the same time, run Applications / Utilities / Console and select "All Messages" in the column at the left. See if any error messages are being thrown when the system gets stuck.
As basic maintenance, reset your Parameter memory (PRAM). PRAM holds copies of certain system settings for rapid access and if it gets out of whack odd things can happen. To reset PRAM, Shut Down the computer. Then reboot while holding down the 4 keys Apple-Option-P-R until you hear the SECOND startup chime, then release them. Your computer will continue to boot up normally.
Also run Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. Select the line in the column on the left showing the name of your main hard drive. Then click on Verify Disk in the panel on the right (if problems are found you will need to boot from your Leopard install DVD and run Disk Utility from there to repair them). If no problems are found, then also click on Repair Disk Permissions in the panel on the right. It may put out some notifications, but if it finishes with "Permissions Repair Complete" you are fine. Then Restart the computer and see if the problem persists. Be patient with both of these. They will take a long time and the progress bar may not advance until the very end.
--Bob

Mac sleep freezes InDesign

When my Mac (10.6.8) wakes from sleep, InDesign (CS4) freezes, and I have to do a force quit.
Any hints on why it is doing this?
Thanks.

When my Mac (10.6.8) wakes from sleep, InDesign (CS4) freezes, and I have to do a force quit.
Any hints on why it is doing this?
Sorry, I was hoping Peter's answer would be it. To diagnose this, garner two pieces of data from Activity Monitor:
1. Wait for InDesign to hang and then select it and choose Sample Process. Save the output. Upload the file to http://pastebin.com/ and post a link here.
2. Next, choose View > Send Signal: Abort (SIGABRT). You will get a crash report. Also upload to pastebin and post a link here.
Though...why do you think upgrading Suitcase would help? You should turn off the Suitcase autoactivation plugin. I think downgrading Suitcase may be the way to go, actually, but talk to Extensis support, they're definitely familar with this issue.
We'll tell you what InDesign is hanging on.

Leopard - Keyboard Freeze?

I installed Leopard last night (Erased and Installed) and thought that everything went fine until I started noticing that my keyboard freezes up every now and then. Keystrokes don't register for about a minute and then everything works fine again. Keystrokes that I enter when the freeze happen do not 'buffer' and are completely lost.
Does anyone know why this may be happening?
Thanks!

I'm having the same problem:
- Keyboard freezes (internal MacBook Pro keyboard or external USB keyboard)
- The mouse continues to work and the system remains otherwise responsive.
- Keyboard eventually comes back.
- These problems are new since leopard
I wanted to add another observation:
My "delete" key continues to work while the rest of the keyboard is unresponsive. Anyone else notice this?
A couple of questions:
1) Does anyone think that this problem happens more when they are using PowerPC vs Universal(Intel) programs? It is hard with an intermittent problem, but I think this might be the case for me.
2) Do most folks who are experiencing this problem have Parallels or VMWare installed?
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