Screensaver password puts mb back to sleep before enter pass appears

I have my macbook setup with a screensaver password that must be entered when the screensaver activates or when the computer wakes from sleep. If you wake the computer from sleep and do not enter a password within about a minute, the computer will go right back to sleep. This morning I had a cd in my macbook and woke the machine from sleep. The cd spinning up put the computer in spinning pinwheel mode for several seconds. By the time the cd stopped spinning, the computer had put itself back to sleep before I even saw the dialog box to enter my password. After three tries, I finally shut the computer completely down and restarted. Anyone else noticed this issue? Any solutions?

Resolved through system updates.

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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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