MBP Boots Forever/Crashes on First (but not Second) Boot

Question

Hi,
I am experiencing a somewhat odd phenomenon with my MBP:
If I close the lid without sleeping the MBP, the battery might keep on draining and when I open the MBP again later, all battery charge is gone.
If I now reconnect (power) and boot up the MBP, the MBP will not go past the stage where there is a grey background and the "beachball"... I had it in this stage for up to 2 hours, it is just not booting any further. If I do a hard reset (holding power button for 8 sec), the MBP boots normally... So, the MBP crahes on the first boot, but boots (always) successfully on the second boot.
The problem with the current state of things is, that I am regularily loosing work, as the latest files that were open are gone if not saved (which I tend to forget, as closing the lid does not always, and should never, lead to a system crash). I have Word set to auto-save every two minutes, but that does not always work and some other tools do not have that option.
My questions are:
1.) How can I make sure that closing the lid actually sleeps the MBP? (I was researching the problem and found that some people claim that this might be a problem of the Mac not being able to quickly enough dump my 8GB of RAM, and that disabling "safe sleep" via Terminal might solve the problem... it did not help).
2.) How can I prevent the make from freezing on the first boot? (I have also research that, but could not really find somehting specific. I have tried checking disk with disk utility (all OK) and reparing permissions to no avail).
I also had the MBP checked for hardware issues in the Store, and had Mavericks clean installed not long ago (had the same problem with Snow Leopard)...
Could it be my 4GB RAM extension? Or some specific app causing the problem? Any standard procedures to follow to narrow the issue down?
Cheers for any solution or workaround ideas!

Answer 1

Hi,
Thank you for helping me.
pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power                    -1
AC Power                    -1*
Currently in use:
standbydelay         4200
standby              0
womp                 1
halfdim              1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
sms                  1
networkoversleep     0
disksleep            10
sleep                0 (sleep prevented by InternetSharing, coreaudiod, coreaudiod)
autopoweroffdelay    14400
hibernatemode        1
autopoweroff         1
ttyskeepawake        1
displaysleep         60
acwake               0
lidwake              1
     pmset -g assertions
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   PreventDiskIdle                0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   InteractivePushServiceTask     0
   PreventSystemSleep             1
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 48(InternetSharing): [0x0000000800000172] 54:15:44 DenySystemSleep named: "com.apple.InternetSharing"
   pid 176(coreaudiod): [0x0000000100002563] 00:13:32 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0'.noidlesleep"
   pid 176(coreaudiod): [0x00000001000010ee] 31:46:01 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'BoomEngine:0'.noidlesleep"
   pid 50(hidd): [0x0000000a00002554] 00:16:54 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
          Timeout will fire in 3595 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
No kernel assertions.
Can you tell anything from these responses?
I will also reset the SMC now (also I believe to have done that before)...
Kind regards