Mac Pro and Wake reason = UHC3 . Please help me.. what is this?

Question

Hey,
i am having a serious issue with my Mac Pro eraly 08 and my wireless Apple Keyboard.
Here are the logs:
20.11.09 12:09:33 kernel System Sleep
20.11.09 12:09:40 racoon[86] IKE Packet: transmit failed. (Initiator, Aggressive-Mode Message 1).
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel Wake reason = UHC3
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel System Wake
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel Previous Sleep Cause: 5
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel USB (UHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel enable - ifnetset_tsomtu failed, 22
20.11.09 12:16:14 kernel enable - ifnetset_tsomtu failed, 22
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel Returning keyboard 0 (IOHIDKeyboard)
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel keyboard not ready?
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel keyboard not ready?
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel hijacked values kea 00000000: ksea 00000000
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel returned kea 00000000: modded ksea 00000000
20.11.09 12:16:15 kernel EIR is not supported.
20.11.09 12:16:17 kernel Ethernet [Intel8254x]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [792d,6f08,0de1,0e00,45e1,4000]
The Mac is waking up randomly and always showing this errorcode. The keyboard is showing a flashing green LED while the mac awakes.
What is this? Anybody familiar with this error?

Answer 1

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