Spontaneous sleep

Macbook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.3.
Computer goes to sleep spontaneously, sometimes after less than a minute after wakeup.
To wake up, I have to close the lid and wait a considerable amount of time.
I have tried monkeying with the Energy Saver settings, though that did not seem to have any effect.
I just shut down and rebooted... and so far so good... but is that the true solution?

Hi,
I had the same problem occuring, twice in the same day! I actually waited longer after complete shutdown (just to confirm that it has, in fact, shut down) but a couple hours later I would see that 'sleep' light on and my laptop super hot. I called Applecare today and was told to:
unplug the adaptor, shut my machine, remove the battery, press the power button for 5 seconds (I'm told it resets the PMU... erm... yah. I'm a new Mac user so that really didn't mean much to me...), put the battery back in, plug in the adaptor and start up again. and cross your fingers.
Hopefully that will work out for you guys too. Although I still gotta send in my macbook for replacement covers due to discolouration. Ergh...

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I hope this solves your problem, because I have this problem as we speak, and my Mac has finally gone completely unresponsive on me (it hangs on boot after one too many forced resets).
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So I hope you can diagnose the problem by checking the system logs ... and ultimately monitoring the temperature of the sensors in your Mac. The program I was using could record histories (it made a graph of temp. vs. time) so it became clearly evident what the heck was going on.
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SOLVED : Lenovo X60 spontaneous sleep mode problem.

The problem is the flat panel screen! (either t-conn board and/or backlight). Viewiz HV121X03-100 Part No. 42T0359 FRU No. 13N7205. LCD : Wistron P/N:60.4Q443.001
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Solution replace the flat panel screen (very expensive because it has Wacom digitizer glass on top of the screen and board at the bottom.)
Roan
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Chapel Hill, NC

Hello @Tilia,
I have read your post on how your notebook computer is experiencing an issue with waking up from sleep mode, and I would be happy to assist you in this matter!
To further diagnose this issue, I recommend following the steps in this document on Troubleshooting sleep and hibernate issues in Windows 8. This should help configure your power management settings to effectively use sleep mode on your system.
Additionally, you can also restore your notebook's default power schemes by following the steps below:
Step 1. Click the Start button
Step 2. In the search box, type "Command Prompt"
Step 3. Right-click Command Prompt
Step 4. Click Run as administrator
Step 5. At the command prompt, type powercfg /restoredefaultschemes and press Enter
reference: http://superuser.com/questions/669571/windows-8-1-64-bit-power-schemes-gone
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, and I look forward to your reply!
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Long back-and-forth with Lenovo... any suggestions?

Below is a excruciatingly detailed record of my long struggle with Lenovo's customer support regarding my T61, for which I purchased a warranty that is good until June 26, 2010. This is the result of painstaking documentation all along the way; I have the actual case reference numbers and serial numbers, etc., if it would help anyone from Lenovo who happens across this.
On Monday, April 27, 2009, my T61 (7662-CTO) began
experiencing persistent crashes. The machine would give me a BSOD
(Blue Screen of Death) on occasion while in Windows. Despite repeated
installations of my graphic card's drivers (for the Nvidia Quadro NVS
140m), the problem continued to worsen. Eventually, the machine
refused to even boot up, throwing out a 'memory parity error' BSOD
soon after the Windows boot-up screen. Even my attempts at
reinstalling Windows (Vista Home Premium x86) did nothing to correct
the issues. It was increasingly apparent that I was facing a hardware
problem.
Since my machine remains under warranty, I called Lenovo's tech
support. After a bit of redundant troubleshooting (he asked me to
reinstall drivers that I had already installed multiple times), the
support agent agreed to send out a box and have the machine shipped
out to EasyServ in Tennessee. Reluctantly, I agreed and sent the box
off. This was Lenovo case reference number 1.
The service was amazingly quick, as I had the machine back in just
over 36 hours. That I appreciated. I was less grateful for the state
of the machine upon its return. True, the BSOD/graphics card issues
had apparently been addressed; the form letter returned with the
laptop claimed that EasyServ 'Quality Technician' A. Rios had replaced
the 'PLANAR CARD ASM EXTERNAL VIDEO' --part number 41W1489. Glad to
have my machine back for work, I once again reinstalled Windows Vista.
Yet I soon realized that the machine had another serious problem.
Putting my T61 into sleep was a risky proposition; within several
minutes, all indicator lights would blink off, and the machine would
offer no signs of life. Pushing the power button did nothing.
Replacing the battery did nothing. Whether plugged in or not, the
machine refused to respond. Repeated power button pushes would
occasionally rouse the machine to 'life,' but as soon as it dropped
into sleep mode again, it would eventually drop dead.
Increasingly unhappy, I called Lenovo support again. They apologized
for the continued faulty hardware and sent out another overnight box
for the return freight to Tennessee. I dutifully shipped the T61 out
again--this was case reference number 2. Once again, the machine
zipped through EasyServ very quickly. It came back 2 days later, with
a "Repair Action Report" form that indicated that M. Anderson had
service the machine. Checked off were boxes for "system board/planar"
(though what exact part was replaced was not indicated this time),
"updated BIOS/embedded controller," and "performed PC Doctor
diagnostics to ensure hardware functionality."
Assured that my problems were (finally!) fixed, I set to reinstalling
Windows. I did all the little software installations and tweaks that I
need to get work done on my new machine. But once everything was set
up, another problem popped up its ugly head. When I did anything that
required some processor power (say, watching video online or running a
virus scan), the machine would mysteriously and spontaneously freeze
up and drop itself into sleep mode. When roused from its stupor, the
machine would immediately give up and return to sleep. Aggravated, I
tried yet another fresh install of Windows and was astonished to find
out that Vista refused to install properly, citing an 'incompatible
hardware' error.
Needless to say, I called Lenovo support once again (case reference
number 3). The first technician I spoke to demanded
that I remove the hard drive I had placed into the machine with the
one originally shipped with the T61. I protested that this was the
Seagate Momentus 7200.2 (200 GB), and it was unlikely that it was the
source of the problem (since the original hard drive had been the
Seagate Momentus 7200.1 (60 GB). But apparently having no choice, I
gave in. We ended our call, I opened up the machine, and swapped hard
drives. I also went ahead and pulled out the extra RAM I had put into
the box--anticipating the next technicians' likely protests. When
Windows gave me the same errors as before, I called Lenovo back. I
explained the whole situation, going back to the video card
replacement that started the whole series of issues. When I explained
how I had attempted to reinstall Windows, the technician repeatedly
asked me if I had changed the boot order on the machine. "No," I
answered. "You don't actually need to. The BIOS throws up a 'Press any
key to boot from the CD/DVD drive' prompt." There was a short pause.
"Did you change the BIOS boot order?" I rolled my eyes and eventually
capitulated to the technician's request. After thus proving that I
actually did know how to boot from my DVD drive, the technician asked
about my installation disc. "You don't have the Rescue and Recovery
discs?" he asked, obviously confused. "No," I answered. "The only disc
I received with my laptop was a clean Vista install/upgrade disc."
There was a long pause, after which the technician insisted that I use
the Lenovo-issued R&R discs.
After receiving said discs through UPS (4 days later), I tried things
again. The Lenovo R&R program was able to successfully re-image my
hard drive with Vista Home Premium. But the odd spontaneous sleep
problem remains. Determined to receive the 'incompatible hardware'
error I had received before, I tried reinstalling with the vanilla
Vista disc; this time, the installation proceeded without a hitch, and
this is the OS that's installed now on the machine. Yet the sleep mode
problem remains. After monitoring system temperature during
high-intensity computing (i.e. running virus scan, Windows Defender
scan, and HD online video all at the same time), it seems likely that
there is some sort of overheating issue. The machine (specifically, the "ACPI Thermal Zone," according to the temperature-monitors program I used) occasionally leaps to 97 degrees Celsius and higher, and this seems to correspond
to the shut-downs.
Eager to avoid another EasyServ roundabout, a new technician and I agreed that taking the T61 to a licensed Lenovo warranty service provider would probably be the best option. He offered the Duke Computer Repair shop as my first option. "Great!" I thought, "I'm a Duke student; this should be relatively painless." What the Lenovo rep. DIDN'T tell me was that Duke charged $90 to work on any machine that wasn't bought through their Computer Store. I discovered this when I drove to the Duke repair shop and talked to the people there (who were, admittedly, apologetic and very willing to offer advice). Not excited about shelling out cash to have my warranty honored, I opted to take the laptop to the next nearest authorized Lenovo warranty service provider. This was a 25-minute drive for me, but I had few other options that didn't involve a $90 service charge. Choice received the machine in on Tuesday, May 19th.
The Lenovo-approved warranty service technician here was remarkably helpful and engaged. He WAS able to reproduce the problem; the laptop aborted into sleep when the CPU was pushed, just as it did for me. Roger also ran a full diagnostic, but his diagnostic did not return any hardware failures that he could replace. He 'discharged the capacitors,' holding the power button down for a full 30 seconds (a process similar to what brought the laptop out of its dead state under case reference number 30TQLB5 above. This seemed to resolve things, he explained, and he encouraged me to take the machine home and see how things went. Unfortunately, the issue persists; pushing the CPU to 100% drops my T61 into sleep mode, often repeatedly
I called Lenovo again. The technician demanded that I install the Power Manager and power management driver from Lenovo before we proceed any further. I resisted, convinced long ago that the machine was suffering a hardware issue, NOT a driver issue) and asked to speak to the technician's supervisor. He said, "Fine," and abruptly dropped me to being on hold. Fully fifteen minutes later (I timed this), another technician picked up, entirely unaware that I had spoken to anyone else or that I was "waiting" for a supervisor. I do not know if I was actually in queue to speak to that first technician's supervisor, or whether that technician had grown tired and decided to relegate me to hold music limbo. The second technician decided to open a new case (my fourth case reference number). He, too, demanded that I install the relevant drivers. Relucantly, I hung up and installed the driver and Power Manager utility.
The problem persisted. In fact, after the installation, the machine went into sleep twice during the startup process--before I even reached the Vista desktop. I called Lenovo back. Running through his protocols, the technician asked whether I had updated the BIOS (the second EasyServ service had done this, and I had double-checked this when I got the machine back). He asked again whether I had actually installed the Power Manager and power management driver. I had. The technician then gave me the equivalent of a shrug. "We could send it back to the depot," he offered, referring again to EasyServ. When I explained (again) that the Lenovo-approved warranty service provider had run all the relevant diagnostics, found no replaceable part, and acknowledged that a problem remained. When I asked the technician on the line about a possible system replacement, he was quick to claim that his department--the system support specialists--could not do this. He shrugged me off and suggested that I call the sales department about any sort of replacement or refund. "And will they have access to my case reference information?" I asked, incredulous that he was referring me to sales--two full years after the machine's actual purchase. "I don't know," he answered. "All I know is that I can't do anything else."
It has now been three and a half weeks since my machine first began having major issues. This laptop has been to EasyServ twice and come back each time with new hardware-related issues. It has been taken to a Lenovo-approved warranty service provider, who acknowledged and reproduced the problem but was unable to repair it. I have called Lenovo's customer support number at least a dozen times and spent HOURS giving case reference numbers, explaining and REexplaining my issues, and waiting on hold. I have gotten little actual work done in these past weeks. I have reinstalled or reimaged Windows at LEAST 10 times. My school fieldwork requires me to have a working machine. I also enrolled in lynda.com's online tutorials for the month of May (through Duke University), but these extended, unresolved problems have cost me dearly. If there is anything that anyone on these forums can do, please help. Help me get my warranty honored. Please, help restore my faith in the Thinkpad legacy.
Thanks for your time.
Matt Hauger
IBM/Lenovo customer
Durham, North Carolina
Solved!
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TPFanControl reads the temperatures reported by your ThinkPad's "embedded controller"--which controls the fan speed. You can use it just for monitoring temperatures, you don't have to control the fan with it (read the documentation for the config file).
RMClock, among other things, plots cpu frequency, voltage and temperature vs. time. This can be useful to observe when your cpu is throttling itself to avoid overheating. You can also use RMClock to undervolt your cpu to lower temperatures. But you shouldn't have to do that to prevent the problems you're having.
mprime in torture test mode will stress your cpu and memory. You can run this while monitoring your system temperatures. At the very least, running the mprime torture test should quickly tell you whether your unwanted sleep is indeed correlated with cpu activity.
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Intermittent Kernel Panics - maybe related to iTunes? Something else?

I have been experiencing intermittent kernel panics the past few weeks - the ones where the screen goes grey and you get the message in multiple languages telling you that you have to restart your computer. I have been trying to figure out exactly what is causing them and, thus far, have been unable to come up with a definite pattern. It does seem that I am starting to narrow things down a bit.
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I am guessing I may need to do a clean reinstall, but before doing that I thought I’d call upon the collective wisdom of the members of these forums. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
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We had a kernel panic last week - iTunes (v.7) was running at the time, so was Mail, but I was building a photo album in iPhoto when it happened. After reboot (took a LONG time to boot up) We repaired permissions and went on as normal. Previously, we had a hard shut down due to a power outage (don't ask: yes of course we have a UPS, but the outage had lasted all day. when the power finally came back on, i powered up the computer and launched Mail. Then the power failed again (grrr!), and apparently, after being out all day, the battery in the UPS didn't even have enough charge for me to have time to quit Mail and power down.)
Then we began to have spontaneous Sleep syndrome: the computer would just suddenly sleep during activity. After this happened a few times, we reset the PRAM, ran the maintenance scripts using Terminal, but the problem persisted. In fact, once it went beyond sleep and shut itself down.
This week, we went into the System Errors log and found this:
kernel[0]: IOSMUPwrController:: OverTemp notification
kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
kernel[0]: System Sleep
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So at this point, we're thinking that the computer was overheating. We've since cleared some space on the internal HD (we only had about 5% available) and also physical space around the unit. Haven't had the problem in two days now. Never had a second kernel panic either...
But we have heard that possibly the fan might be failing... we're still under AppleCare warranty and are thinking that we should maybe call Apple to open a trouble ticket just in case.
your thoughts?
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Screen dimming/flickering & power source alternating on 1GHz model

I have a 12" 1GHz Powerbook running 10.5.6 that has developed 2 problems, (possibly simultaneously? I can't say for certain). The first problem being that the screen has started dimming and then coming back to "normal," at rate of about every second, so that it is almost flickering.
The second problem is that when I have it plugged in, (with a McNally power adapter, that I have used for a few years with no problems), it sometimes alternates between showing the icon for using the battery and then back to saying it's running of the cord, and this will go on for a long time, and sometimes it will go from saying that the battery is practically fully charged to saying that it is at only 6%, (always 6%), (it is a relatively new battery also). I recently tried a brand new power cord, and had the same problems. And sometimes when it says there is only 6% battery left, and is not recognizing that it is in fact plugged in, it does prompt me to plug it in before it goes to sleep, but often it does not and just continues to say there is only 6% battery power left and never puts itself to sleep.
Someone suggested it could be a bad logic board, (this was mainly in reference to the screen flicker). Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello,
Powerbook Pro - 10.4.11
I have exactly the same issues, with no solution yet. It does seem like some kind of spontaneous sleep issue, as the sleeping light by the latch goes on.
To save you some trouble, here is what I have done, with NO solution yet.
- Reformat and reload of Tiger
- reset PMU
- reset PRAM
- reset Open Firmware
- test with power adapter only, no battery
- test with battery, no power adapter
Interestingly, when resetting the Open Firmware, I let it sit for half an hour, with no blinking. Note that this mode is not the normal Mac OS X, but a black and white screen. This test seems to indicate that it is a software issue, not a hardware issue? Despite having reformatted and loaded everything from scratch.
Any suggestions for me?
mark

Powermac g5 quad core reboot issue, led etc.

Hey guys. Gals. Whomever. Have a g5 quad core that has been bullet proof solid until recently. Annoying little red led popped up. (under the 1st ram slot, which co-incidentally is empty.) Then a second red one (Under 4th ram slot, 1" or so in from the edge of the board) went on..
When both comes on, nothing happens..
What has been happening is this.. one red led is on, and the computer spontaneously sleeps. I played around a bit with istat pro, and think it may have been because the fans were running full blast, and the temp was still rising. (no coolant leaks, etc). I set the performance to "reduced" and all seems well.. Apple guys suggested re-installing osx with an archived installation to save all my other stuff, and I figured "hey, why not.."
Then it got weird. Computer will NOT restart. If I restart the computer from apparently any state, it simply makes the tone, both led's come on, and it goes to a grey screen with a mac apple on it and does nothing else. Eventually the fans kick on full blast, and I have to hold the power button to turn off. And that is after inserting the disc, running the little prompts, and having the computer restart it self.
I have seen
-file folder w. question mark prior to apple
-flickering of the screen when boots up. (white, then black, then desktop etc)
I have...
-checked vid cable for tightness
-removed all firewire devices (only had one a high speed camera card reader)
-unplugged everything and hit the pvram reset button
-removed the battery on the motherboard
-shut the machine down, stuck the osx disc in, and restarted.
all to no real avail. The machine boots and works fine from cold. Will NOT restart.
If the osx disc is in, it goes to grey screen with apple on it, and after like 20 secs the fans go on full blast, and the dvd winds up to a zillion rpms. Nothing more..
I have a apple wireless aluminum keyboard, and have tried to boot with the cmd option p r ,or o f settings and nothing happens. not sure if the machine recognizes this keyboard early enough in it's boot to be of any use.
Currently
-no led's on.
-reduced performance setting
-can't restart computer
-can't install/reinstall osx
Thoughts????

bought machine new, but come old os in 2005. upgraded to this one and lost original disc in a move. D'oh.
No thermal runway errors..
in fact today no mention of sleep at all.. These may be of interest..
2/18/09 9:19:08 AM [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[111] 2009-02-18 09:19:08.476 DashboardClient[144:10b] (com.iSlayer.iStatpro4.widget) file:///Users/appleuser/Library/Widgets/iStat%20pro.wdgt/scripts/core.js: TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression this.isSectionEnabled) is not object. (line: 528)
2/18/09 9:19:35 AM com.apple.launchd[81] ([0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[111]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 145 PPID 1 DashboardClient
2/18/09 9:19:35 AM com.apple.launchd[81] ([0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[111]) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 144 PPID 1 DashboardClient
2/18/09 9:19:35 AM [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock [144] line 516: TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression this.isSectionEnabled) is not object.
2/18/09 9:19:35 AM [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock [144] line 528: TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression this.isSectionEnabled) is not object.
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That seems to correspond with me manually shutting it down..
I fired it up with the disc in the drive and it went further than before... actually went to grey screen w apple and rotating disc thing. Then the lights came on. I booted it with the plexi shield off.. The plexi light went on (yellow) and when it was all said and done (Hung up) it had more lights on than before..
One light above 1st ram slot
one below ram slot (over temp)
checksum light (as you wrote)
Yellow shield is off light
red light under that one..
I can read the descriptions on most of htem, the red under the yellow got away from me.
I will have to take it in to get fixed.. BUT theproblem is this.. there is no one near me.
I called apple yesterday and they said "XX" ct, which is 2 hrs and a boat ride away...
There are some regular computer techs in town but they have been less than impressive..
Thoughts?

IBook G3 not booting up

I did a clean install from CD of OS 10.4.6. It was late at night, so I started the next round of software updates while I went to bed. Next morning, I saw that while Tte system hadn't really gone to sleep, the screen was dark. I could barely make out a dialog box on the display. Long-to-short: it would not wake up. I have tried zapping PRAM, resetting PMU, permissions/disk repair. The trackpad and keyboard only function when I hold down the Option key on bootup. If I choose the hard drive, I have to try and use a USB keyboard and mouse (in this case a MightyMouse). The display may light up for a few seconds, but then goes dark again. If I boot to the CD, the display is lit up, but the trackpad and keyboard on the iBook still do not function. One wrinkle in this: I was using a Mighty Mouse when doing the intial 10.4.x updates. I hear that the Mighty Mouse has a power down function. Could that be affecting the situation? Another wrinkle: S.M.A.R.T. was reporting that the disk was failing. Is that the end of the discussion? This machine has been opened up more times than I can remember. . .

OK, so I bought an IBM hard drive for the iBook G3, formatted it and installed 10.4. The system would go to sleep about every 5 seconds. I had to use an external USB mouse and keyboard to wake up the system because the system's keyboard and trackpad were not working. However, the keyboard and trackpad DO work if I boot up using the Apple Hardware test CD. The system's display only shows a faint image. I have used a display adapter to connect a VGA monitor to the system and that works. In an attempt to try and fix the constant auto-sleep, I installed 10.2 which is the system that came with the iBook originally. I was able to get the system stable, though the only video available is by using an external monitor. I re-installed 10.4 and the system went immediately back to spontaneous sleep mode. As it stands now, I am have auto-sleep, no video on the laptop display. The brightness control in 10.4 is set to the darkest setting. Changing it does not affect the screen. If I change the setting to its brightest and then restart the system, the setting is back to the darkest setting again.

MacBook Pro spontaneously wakes from sleep after upgrading to Leopard?

For some reason, after I upgraded to Leopard, then whenever I put my MacBook Pro to sleep, it spontaneously wakes up after some time (can be from a few minutes to an hour or two.) I don't know why this is happening, but I know for sure that it's related to Leopard since I put my laptop to sleep every night (it's in my bedroom) and after upgrading to Leopard, it started to just wake up a short while after putting it to sleep.
At first I thought it could be Time Machine, so I disconnected all my external drives, but that didn't seem to work.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Thanks in advance!

I have the same issue. Installed Leopard last night on my first-gen 1.83 MacBook. The next morning the Mac was a little slow in wanting to wake up. After that it stalled on transferring a large file from my G5 and I had to issue a reboot command via the shell to get it out of that. A few minutes later the computer locked up when trying to apple > tab through the application.
I put it to sleep after restarting the Mac from that freeze. A while later while walking out of the house I happened to glance at the Macbook and saw the apple glowing while the lid was shut and then it went back to sleep.
Tonight I put the Macbook to sleep on the way out to dinner. I noted that I had 84% of my battery left. A few hours later when I got home the MB was warm, the apple was glowing and I had 9% of my battery left.
Looks like there is some work to be done asap for 10.5.1

Macbook spontaneously goes into sleep mode and screen off mode

Hi. My Macbook spontaneously goes into sleep mode and screen off mode with varying time between each instance. It usually goes for a few minutes or even hours without doing it and then will go through periods of fluctuation between the modes. I believe this to have started with a minor orange juice accident rather than it being anything software related.
Any ideas as to how I might rectify the problem? Thanks very much in advance,
Danny

When you say it goes into sleep mode ...do you mean you actually see the white pulsing light?
It may be that there is an application running (perhaps in the background) that is keeping your book awake. Printer software sometimes does this for example ...try logging out and seeing if it sleeps like that. If it does, then it very well may be a background process running.
You may find some items in System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items that may be the culprit.

Won't sleep, wakes spontaneously

My new Mac Pro has some odd behaviors. First, when using the keyboard shortcut to make it sleep it sometimes won't respond the first time. Sometimes it sleeps right away. Sometimes it takes a few seconds. Sometimes it won't sleep at all unless I use the menu item.
Another oddity is that it sometimes wakes spontaneously for a few seconds then goes back to sleep by itself.
Are these known issues? Are there fixes known?
Thanks.

Look at your kernel log with the Console.app (in your /Applications/Utilities folder). It might give you a clue who might be waking you machine back up. Look for a line that contains the words "Wake reason". There will be some letters to the right of the equals sign following the wake reason indicating the device that caused the wake.
Here's a list of some of the reason codes, and for that matter it's part of an article about sleep failures.

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