A few more letters in response to
"Sleep of Death" a
hardware-specific OS 9.2 bug?, More
on the OS 9.x "Sleep of Death" bug, and "Sleep
of Death" discussion continues.
Sleep of Death update
From Cedric Sullivan
Hi again,
I just wanted to update my situation. I have now experienced the
sleep of death in 10.1.5. After a forced restart, I experienced a
bunch of problems. Programs were quitting unexpectantly - sometimes
reported, sometimes not. I developed a really bad problem with
windows when they were dragged (note: I have window buffer
compression enabled). Something else to note, window minimizing
wasn't smooth at one point. Windows would jump from full sized to
minimized in one step (perhaps some took two or three in a few
seconds time) and vice versa for the reverse. My keyboard stopped
working in some programs as well. In the second example, I gave the
window a real shaking. It appears to pick up the background windows
and desktop as well as parts of the window itself. The mouse pointer
also got a bit scrambled/noisy-square.
My System Preferences app froze up on starting it up. This was not
too long after a startup! Anyway, I ran fsck; it found
errors and fixed them. I'd previously used TechTool Pro to rebuild
the directory. It reported some unusual changes, but I'd accepted
them.
Right now my iBook is running fine.
Cedric
Won't wake up on earlier system
From Joel Anderson
Most of the writing about the "Sleep O' Death" seems to say OS 9.2
or later. I've experienced it on 9.0.4 after reformatting the
internal hard drive of the culprit (iMac DV) for other reasons. I
haven't had another problem, yet. (two months) Knock on wood.
LJoel
Sleep of Death and Mac OS X
From Jimmy James Champlin
Charles,
I've had it happen with OS X as well. On an iMac (summer 2001) 500
and a blue G3/400, versions through 10.1.2 wouldn't wake from sleep
when Network Time was enabled. 10.1.3 and later don't have the
problem. Interesting to note that Mac OS 9.1 and 9.2.x will work
properly with network time enabled.
I've also had it happen on a 1400 running 8.6 and 9.1 without
network time enabled.
Jim
Sleep of Death, possible solution
From Alvin Chan
I had that before, but now it's good. I never turn off the iMac
anymore, and the problem went away when I set it to 20 minutes. The
system sleep is disabled (so it is still connected to the Internet),
but the video and hard drive are set to 20 minutes before it sleeps.
20 min was Apple's default. It's gone now and boots all the time
=)
God bless,
Alvin
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