OS X Mavericks :: 10.9.4 - IMac Waking Up Unprompted While Sleeping
Sep 2, 2014
I am running OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks on a 27-inch Mid 2011 iMac. Prior to upgrading to Mavericks, I would go to System Preferences_Energy Saver and set Display Sleep to 1 minute. This would keep the computer screen turned off at night, but would allow for backups with Carbon Copy Cloner to function. (My Computer Sleep setting is set to Never, Put Hard Disks to Sleep when Possible is checked, and the remaining two items Wake For Network Access and Start Up Automatically after a Power Failure are not checked.
However, after the Mavericks upgrade, my iMac wakes itself up without any prompting. This occurs when there are no other programs running. Even after putting the machine to Sleep from the Apple Tab, it still wakes itself up with no programs running, etc.
I also checked the settings in System Preferences_Accessibility and the Voice Over, Captions, and Speakable Items settings are off.
After running the Terminal Application with the command line syslog |grep -i "Wake reason" I get the following results: syslog |grep -i "Wake reason"Aug 28 00:34:54 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC2 My understanding is that this means that a USB connected device may be waking the system. Accordingly, I disconnected all USB devices (forgot the devices in USB Preferences), except for my Wireless Apple Trackpad. However, the same problem occurs.
Info:
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
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Aug 21, 2014
We have a family iMac that is waking up on its own.
27" Mid-2011
3.4 GHz i7
10.9.4
Pretty clean system, as I don't have a lot of software loaded. My son usually uses it for games, Minecraft mainly.
The last couple days it has been waking up on its own with no prompting. I checked the usual suspects, "Wake for network access" is not clicked, bluetooth is off and there are no sharing services that have been clicked on.
When I check the console, the only message that shows up during the self wake is:
"8/21/14 11:20:06.960 PM Console[309]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored."
This keeps appearing at the time the self-wake up occurs.
Info:
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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