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Jason Davies

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Jul 10, 2019, 4:37:43 PM7/10/19
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Hi smuggers

My venerable Mac Pro (2010) refuses to sleep even when I set it to va
the menu, never mind the settings in Energy Saver. I've looked at what
is Preventing Sleep in Activity Monitor and run pmset -g assertions in
Terminal (which I got from the web). It returns this (see below).

Can anyone help me work this out? Firstly it lists all USB devices (are
they really all telling the Mac to be awake? I'd have thought this was
latent). It says one external media is active but I tried ejecting them
all and it still wouldn't sleep. The NetworkClient seems to be something
to do with IP scheduling (cups). The Photos Agent isn't always in the
list so I'm discounting that.

Any ideas? It's getting a bit ridiculous as the room is warm enough and
I don't like leaving it on 24/7.

Thanks
J

Terminal output follows.

Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 1
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 1
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 1
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
NetworkClientActive 1
Listed by owning process:
pid 874(cloudphotosd): [0x0000a39a000ba78d] 00:02:01 BackgroundTask
named: "com.apple.cloudphotosd.darkwake.sync"
Details: cloudphotosd darkwake power assertion for initial and large
iCPL downloads/uploads
Timeout will fire in 1678 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 135(hidd): [0x0000a3b20009a796] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named:
"com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968240.3"
Timeout will fire in 60 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
pid 296(cupsd): [0x0000006900118191] 11:38:20 NetworkClientActive
named: "org.cups.cupsd"
pid 85(powerd): [0x0000000500088002] 11:40:00 ExternalMedia named:
"com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
Kernel Assertions: 0x10c=USB,BT-HID,MAGICWAKE
id=500 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd300000 owner=IOUSBHostDevice
id=503 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd310000 owner=My Passport 07B8
id=504 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd330000 owner=G-Drive Mobile
USB
id=505 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd340000 owner=VXI USB 7.02
id=506 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.fd350000 owner=CANON DR-2010C
id=507 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.3a200000 owner=Jabra EVOLVE
LINK
id=508 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1a200000 owner=PS2 to USB
Converter
id=510 level=255 0x4=USB mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.00200000 owner=IOUSBHostDevice
id=514 level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=en0 owner=en0
id=515 level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=1970-01-01, 01:00
description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver
owner=BNBTrackpadDevice
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

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Jul 11, 2019, 2:59:02 AM7/11/19
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Is Photos in the middle of syncing your iCloud Photo Library? That could be keeping it awake

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Paul R Owen

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Jul 11, 2019, 3:03:41 AM7/11/19
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Jason,

I’ve had the same problem for many years with my Late 2008 MacPro.

Sometimes it absolutely refuses to go to sleep, either automatically or by selecting the sleep option manually (I prefer to hold down Option + Command + Eject), and the only way to stop it churning away is shut it down. even when I log out of all accounts. At other times it behaves itself. A real mystery.

I gave up trying to fix it some years ago.

Having waited years for the replacement MacPro I was aghast at the cost of the new machine and have now bought a maxed out MacMini (except for SSD which are silly prices once you get above 1TB).

My current challenge is trying to work out how to connect my old Apple monitors (either DVI or mini DVI connectors) to the new MacMini. Looks like I need to buy a Media Hub.

Paul Owen


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Tony Westby-Nunn

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Jul 11, 2019, 3:25:25 AM7/11/19
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Hi,
I am replying from South Africa. I had the problem with a recent update of High Sierra. I then upgraded to Mojave and the problem vanished. I gather there is a glitsh with High Sierra updater.
PS, Mojave is amazing. I publish books and am on my computer about 10 hours a day. I acquired a headache from the screen brightness. Now no more headache with the 'dark view' of Mojave.
Cheers
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Jason Davies

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Jul 11, 2019, 9:30:20 AM7/11/19
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No, it's not always there in Activity Monitor. I asked someone at work and they asked if I was running a printer to be available on the network (from the Terminal dump) and aha, I set that up a couple of weeks ago so it looks like the culprit.

So I'll throw in to the other current thread that wireless printers can prevent your mac going to sleep! (Haven't got home to test it yet)

Thanks
J

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Is Photos in the middle of syncing your iCloud Photo Library? That could be keeping it awake

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Michael Simpson

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Jul 17, 2019, 12:00:44 PM7/17/19
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I had a similar problem sleep refused to work and spent ages looking for something still running until I put the mouse in the sleep bar from the Menu then lift the mouse from the desk, then click it in the air, then switch the mouse off Magic Mouse. Problem solved.
It was simply mechanical, I was obviously moving the mouse slightly while clicking sleep. 
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