Scheduling shut down & start up

I have a Mac Mini G4 that will no longer shut down or start up as scheduled. Any ideas about why this feature would stop working? Thanks!

chizzle03-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards.
Generally an external device will cause sleeping problems. Have you added an eyeTV or any device like that?
The first step would be to disconnect all peripherals except the keyboard and monitor and see if the problem goes away. If so, add devices back one at a time until you find the offending unit.
Luck-
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Scheduled shut down, start ups Not Working

Hi,
I am a technician in charge of 9 iMacs (Core 2 Duo's) and 13 eMacs (not sure what kind), in a media suite in a college, that are all running 10.4.11. I have tried to set them all up so that they start up at 9am each weekday and shut down at 6pm, but only a few of them will do this.
So instead of sitting at my desk and hearing 22 simultaneous Bonggggsssss each morning, I hear about 6, and then the rest are just sleeping after the evening before. They are all set to receive their time from Apple (Europe). (They are also connected to a college network that allows for network accounts, and I can access each one using Apple Remote Desktop, the latest version). At the time of the proposed shut down, they are all at the login screen, with no running apps, or at least none that i'm aware of.
How can I fix this? I can't find anyone with the same problem.

Thanks Hans,
It is not an issue with sleeping the machines, but actual start ups and shut downs.
I will try setting the preferences so that the machines never sleep, to see if there is a conflict between the sleep times and the shut down. I would rather that the machines were actually turned off overnight rather than sleeping.
The article suggests a lot of things that contribute to the machines not sleeping, and the one that jumped out at me was if the machines are connected to a network - which they all are - but that wouldn't explain why some of them shut down as expected, and some of them don't.
Unfortunately, we have students using the machines all day so there isn't a chance to check the procedures!

SCM / APO shut down start up; (restore) activities,procedures,best practice

Dear ALL,
What are the generic steps that need to be followed from a Functional Consultant perspective?
I am not sure if this must be part of a Basis thread
Anyone can share & enlighten the forum on this
Some of the steps module wise are
FUNCTIONAL steps
1.    DP
1.1 Downloading of CVC's
1.2 Backup of all infocubes / remote query cube
1.3 Download of Planning book data
2.     SNP PPDS
2.1   Download Product Master, PPM, Resource data of '000'
2.2   Download 'all order data' from the product overview
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0. Complete off line back up of the system
1. Lock users except admin
2. Stop CIF
3. Stop live cache
What are the restore steps
Anything missed out functionally / technically is welcome
Points would be awarded

Hi Sridhar,
During shut down & start up of APO system, functional part
involvement is mandatory and it is not an isolated work of
basis alone.
Moreover, in addition to the steps that you have mentioned,
the following are some of the steps that you can follow it up.
1) DP:-
Before shut down:-Copy of data to other simulation versions
from active versions if required. Locking users, Postponing or
rescheduling of jobs accordingly
After shutdown:- Time series consistency checks
Validation of data, Scheduling jobs, unlock users
2) SNP PPDS:-
Before shut down:- Jobs postponement or rescheduling,
Informing users to take the necessary deliveries from stos
from snp for execution
After shutdown:- Download of planning data and validation,
Scheduling of jobs, Order conversions,
3) Technical Steps:- (CIF / Livecache)
Before shutdown:- Rescheduling of integration model jobs
if any,
After shutdown:- Scheduling of integration model jobs,
releasing locked users, Livecache consistency checks,
Delta report, Monitoring and clearing inbound/outbound
queues etc.,
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R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

IMac doesn't do scheduled shut down

It's been getting hot here in the afternoons, and last week I came home from work and found my Al iMac 20" shut down. It was very hot in here, even after 8pm, so I figured it probably overheated and shut itself down.
I've heard of overheating problems with Al iMacs, so I decided to schedule it to automatically shut down every weekday morning at 7:15, just after I go to work. This morning was the first weekday morning since I set it. When I got home at 5, it was sleeping, but not shut down. I checked to verify the settings, and it is properly set. The system clock is also correct. Is there some trick to get it to shut down?

I have the same problem. But if i change international settings from swedish to english the scheduled shut down settings i made in swedish shows as scheduled sleep in english. So if i turn to scheduled sleep the computer shut down instead. Weird!!! Maybe you can try to choose sleep instead of shut down or try to do the setting in the root account.

Auto save when scheduling shut down?

Is there a script or application that would allow me to have every program save and close before the system automatically shuts down when scheduled in energy saver?
I work for at a video production studio and we often have to leave the computers on over night to transcode, render or export.
Is it possible for running programs such as final cut pro, compressor, and dvd studio pro to auto save when closing during scheduled automatic shut down?

Sounds to me like scheduled shut down in your environment is not ideal. Why not just let the machines remain on? They'll go to sleep normally (unless you've disabled that) once all activity is done, and sleep mode uses very little power.

Schedule shut down is at radom time

Hi
I have set-up a schedule to shut down at 3am. it works some times, but most of the time it doesn't as I wake-up and the PB is on, and them like today at 10am or so, the schedule shut down quicks in prompting me?
My tab isn't locked, as mentioned in other post.
Not a big issue, but that means something is wrong somewhere, and my PB lack some sleep as well.
Thank you in advance

lune:
Lots of questions. I'll try to get to at least a few now.
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When working in Disk Utility, both for Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions, you want to select the Manufacturer's ID, instead of the volumne name. You want to work with the volume on the HDD, as the directory is built into the HDD.
Would you say that I should consider the idefrag solution to keep things running smoothly?
Here's what Apple says About disk optimization with Mac OS X. That said, I do a complete disk optimization at least monthly, sometimes twice. I use Tech Tool Pro. It's one of the best all round utilities out there. DriveGenius is supposed to be pretty good, too, but I am not personally familiar with it. It is the one utility that I have heard reported to do repartitioning on the fly successfully.
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Schedule shut down

I keep setting my settings for my computer to shut down at 10:45PM and wake up at 4am. It never does it, every time I get up in the morning before 4am, the computer is still running. I've checked to make sure I wanted it to shut down and not sleep, every thing checks out, it just won't shut down unless I manually shut it down myself.

Hit there,
One thing that may be preventing the automatic shutdown is that the computer is asleep at the scheduled time. The article below has more information.
Computer must be awake for scheduled shut down to occur in Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3902
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Shut Down/Start Up - Slow...

Ok, today seems to be a day of sorting out issues with my Mac.
I am noticing that when I shut down or restart, it hangs a while, and then the spinning clock thing appears for a good 20 seconds, and then it kind of restarts. I am also experiencing blue screen hang when it starts up.
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Hi jfedor, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Since your problem is different, feel free to start a new topic, as it will get more attention, and you problem(s) can be addressed specifically.
Here's the link if it's hard to find where to do it...
http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=758
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Shut down // start up problems

i am having power related problems on the intel mini and i want to know how widespread this is before i confront apple support. btw i love the mini--this is my 2nd mini. i have had a power on problem with a mini even on the day of purchase and it was exchanged graciously at the apple store in white plains this past july.<this was a power button failure issue>
here's whats happenning....1>it misbehaves on shut down or restart by software. there gets to a point where the screen is black but the white light on the box stays on and the vents in the back are still warm. my workaround is to manually shut down about a minute after the software shut down by holding down the power button on the back of the mini.
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thanks. i hadn't thought about the surge protector.
keyboard and mouse are bluetooth.monitor is digital 24". i have an external powered usb hub which runs my time machine external drive. i keep everything else unplugged from the usb hub during startup and shutdown because my ipod shuffle caused startup problems in the past.
i had similar troubles with my first mini when it was plugged directly into a wall socket. the surge protector seems to help--at least i can cold start the mini without unplugging it.
i have a genius bar apptmt this evening and i will see what gives. i am glad i made apple put in their own overpriced ram so i never voided the warranty. maybe i will buy a care plan to cover myself when i am there. but i so want to raise this mini from 2 to 4 gig now that mem is so cheap. if i can get this problem stabilized...
my very first mini was powerpc and the ipod shuffle, according to genius bar, caused its demise due to usb 1.1 and usb2.0 handshaking problems. i still have it somewhere and plan to install a harddrive to get it going.
thanks again guys.
and i'd like to ask others again if this problem is more common.

Weird ipad shut down/start up behavior

Shut down is normal (the speed at which it shuts down is different sometimes). When i start it up, though, it sometimes gives the same twirl that it gives at shutdown, and then it shuts off again. I then have to start it up again for it to turn on.

I actually have an idea as to why this is happening and I hope Apple will address this in their upcoming software update.
If you put your iPad to sleep via the sleep/power button and then wake it up to get to the lock screen, if you don't swipe to unlock right away, you'll notice that the screen will go to black in a very short period of time - literally a few seconds.
I believe what's happening is that, depending on what apps you've been running, when you go to power down the iPad (rather than just put it to sleep), if there is something in memory that the iPad is trying to clear out before shutting down, the screen will go to black (much as it does when it's on the lock screen) before the iPad has the chance to finish shutting down. When you then hit either the home button or sleep/power button, the iPad reawakens and finishes the shut down process.
This is observable behavior in all iPads and is definitely a software issue. A lot of people don't see it happen because many never power down their iPads. Plus, when it happens, this behavior happens sporadically and is almost impossible to duplicate on demand, hence the uselessness of taking to the Genius Bar. However, since it's a software issue, there really isn't anything they could do about it anyway.
The only fix is to see it addressed in the upcoming update in November. Keep your fingers crossed.

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