Doesn't sleep by itself after Mountain Lion update GA-Z68A-D3H-B3

[modsuperstar]

ive never come across a situation where idle sleep works, but forced sleep doesnt.
its nearly always the opposite


this is help files folder building. can take a while, but should eventually go.

im gonna guess itunes was open playing music, or music was paused.

again, this issue doesnt make sense to me, as its usually the opposite.
sort the above out (close itunes and wait for sdmbuilding to finish), then check console for a wake reason when you try to force sleep

You mention that you've never encountered that situation, but my computer has always had that problem, when using Lion, and now after upgrading to ML. I have a hot corner setup to put my machine to sleep and it does, and somewhat regularly will wakeup from this. But if I go to Apple Menu>Sleep and put the machine to a dead sleep, it will wake up the system, monitors etc, but the OS is always frozen.

I've been walking through this thread to try and find a solution but haven't been so lucky. I was able to fix the external drive issue which is great, but no luck on the sleep wake issue. Also how long does the help rebuild usually take? Anytime I've checked assertions it always seems to be running. I've kept my system up for awhile, so I would figure it wouldn't be running that all the time.

2012-09-13 10:38:56 PM E 
Assertion status system-wide:
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   UserIsActive                   0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   BackgroundTask                 1

Listed by owning process:
  pid 231(helpd): [0x0000000c00000150] 00:06:23 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.helpd.sdmbuilding" 

Kernel Assertions: 0x0004 
 * Kernel Assertion ID = 500
   Created At = 2012-09-13 10:30:55 PM E 
   Modified At = 2012-09-13 10:35:41 PM E 
   Owner ID = 0xffffff8011830000
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (4)

 * Kernel Assertion ID = 501
   Created At = 2012-09-13 10:30:56 PM E 
   Modified At = 2012-09-13 10:35:41 PM E 
   Owner ID = 0xffffff8011834000
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (4)

 

[RehabMan]

both of those are preventing idle sleep.

sdmbuiding is to do with help data for applications, and will eventually go away once its finished building the folder.
a temporary solution would be to force quit the helpd process in activity monitor, but will just rebuild upon restart.
if it doesnt go away after a period of time, you can use the terminal command

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.helpd.plist

which should permanently stop it.


the external disk issue needs to be sorted out before idle sleep will work, and will not sort itself out.
are you using the uefi bios for your board, or the older award bios?

Thanks for this samisnake!

I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out my sleep problems with my desktop, and this task just keeps going in my 'pmset -g assertions'.

I let it run for more than 24 hours just to see if it ever completes. It didn't, so obviously it is buggy or something on my system is buggy (network drivers?)... Interesting I have 10.8.2 installed on my laptop and no problems there with this task.

So, I finally had enough and disabled it. I guess I'll find out later if this is doing something "important."

 

[jamdox]

Bump looking for a solution for the

pid 14589(coreaudiod): [0x000000010000108f] 91:15:47 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "com.apple.audio.'AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,2,1,5:3'.noidlesleep"

problem. I have a hard time believing the system won't go down because I have YouTube paused!

 

[janeman1811]

try please sleep from the app store, works for me, and if I need something to happen when I'm away I just turn it off

 

[thetrystero]

autosleep works for me after killing the sdmbuilding process, but it will not wake from sleep. the console log says "Graphics Suppressed".

This happened only after I installed the EVGA GTX 650. It woke from sleep find when I was using HD4000.

1/6/13 3:57:50.000 PM kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 51/6/13 3:57:50.000 PM kernel[0]: The USB device Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (Port 2 of Hub at 0x14000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: arp_client_transmit(en0) failed, Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en0) failed: Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: DHCP en0: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
1/6/13 3:57:51.000 PM kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control, Debug [796d,0300,0de1,0300,45e1,0000]
1/6/13 3:57:51.540 PM configd[17]: DHCP en0: ARP detect ROUTER failed, arp_client_transmit(en0) failed, Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:52.918 PM configd[17]: network changed: v4(en0+:192.168.1.122) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
1/6/13 3:58:09.000 PM kernel[0]: Graphics suppressed 19230 ms

 

[thetrystero]

autosleep works for me after killing the sdmbuilding process, but it will not wake from sleep. the console log says "Graphics Suppressed".

This happened only after I installed the EVGA GTX 650. It woke from sleep find when I was using HD4000.

1/6/13 3:57:50.000 PM kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 51/6/13 3:57:50.000 PM kernel[0]: The USB device Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (Port 2 of Hub at 0x14000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: arp_client_transmit(en0) failed, Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en0) failed: Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:51.532 PM configd[17]: DHCP en0: INIT-REBOOT transmit failed
1/6/13 3:57:51.000 PM kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control, Debug [796d,0300,0de1,0300,45e1,0000]
1/6/13 3:57:51.540 PM configd[17]: DHCP en0: ARP detect ROUTER failed, arp_client_transmit(en0) failed, Network is down (50)
1/6/13 3:57:52.918 PM configd[17]: network changed: v4(en0+:192.168.1.122) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
1/6/13 3:58:09.000 PM kernel[0]: Graphics suppressed 19230 ms

OK, reinstalled the October 2012 driver and it works like a charm! except that waking from keypress or mouse press takes forever. Hit the power button to wake from sleep. Much faster.

 

[giacomoleopardo]

what about this one?

Assertion status system-wide:
***PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep****1
***CPUBoundAssertion**************0
***PreventSystemSleep*************0
***PreventUserIdleSystemSleep*****0
***ExternalMedia******************0
***UserIsActive*******************0
***ApplePushServiceTask***********0
***BackgroundTask*****************0

Listed by owning process:
**pid 17(powerd): [0x00000005000001a7] 00:03:40 PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep named: "com.apple.powermanagement.delayDisplayOff" (timed out)
Timeout will fire in: 79.7 Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff

Any idea?

EDIT: Solved with

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.powermanagement.delayDisplayOff

 

[Element515]

Can someone help me to get sleep working? I tell the computer to sleep, yet fans and lights remain on. Gigabyte UEFI

Assertion status system-wide:
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 0
UserIsActive 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
BackgroundTask 1

Listed by owning process:
pid 214(helpd): [0x0000000c00000151] 05:02:23 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.helpd.sdmbuilding"
pid 49(mds): [0x0000000c0000012e] 05:02:46 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds"

Kernel Assertions: 0x0132
* Kernel Assertion ID = 500
Created At = 2/26/13 5:36:45 PM EST
Modified At = 2/26/13 5:41:28 PM EST
Owner ID = 0xffffff801156f000
Level = 255
Assertions Set = None (4)

* Kernel Assertion ID = 501
Created At = 2/26/13 5:36:49 PM EST
Modified At = 2/26/13 5:41:32 PM EST
Owner ID = 0xffffff80115cb000
Level = 255
Assertions Set = None (4)

* Kernel Assertion ID = 502
Created At = 2/26/13 5:37:48 PM EST
Modified At = 12/31/69 7:00:00 PM EST
Owner ID = 0xffffff80ef83d000
Level = 0
Assertions Set = None (4)

* Kernel Assertion ID = 503
Created At = 2/26/13 5:37:53 PM EST
Modified At = 12/31/69 7:00:00 PM EST
Owner ID = 0xffffff80ef8f1000
Level = 0
Assertions Set = None (4)

* Kernel Assertion ID = 505
Created At = 2/26/13 10:51:11 PM EST
Modified At = 12/31/69 7:00:00 PM EST
Owner ID = 0xffffff80116eef00
Level = 255
Assertions Set = None (128)

 

[Kris404]

for disabling helpd, try this in Terminal:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.helpd.plist

 

[Element515]

I've never read the pmset commands... Are those two pids listed what is preventing me from proper sleep? I've been changing things all week trying to get it to work... I'll try putting that command through terminal and see what happens. Thanks