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Shutdown triggers sleep mode problem?
Authored by: Guiyon on Feb 13, '02 08:20:13AM

My iBook has started doing this within the last month or two (never used the shutdown command). Tries to go to sleep and crashes. Can't really get any support for it as it is very random. As for the shutdown command, i tested it on my Sawtooth G4 and it does drop me into Single-User mode. I have not noticed any problems with it.



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Shutdown triggers sleep mode problem?-advice for those troubled with the sleep problem.
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 02, '02 10:46:10PM

I had similar trouble with my TiBook (look under Apple Discussion Forums for "sleep of death". I called Apple support and a very helpful support person talked me through some weird-key combination rebootings and specific typed commands, etc. which fixed it.
He also suggested if it came back to clean up the perferences in:
/User/Username/Library/Preferences
by moving the folder to the Desktop, rebooting, and adding preferences one by one sort of like debugging extensions in Classic.
I'm guessing that one reason this problem is random is that some sort of preference from some application (3rd party?) doesn't get put in the right state during shutdown procedure, which gives the sleep problem. In the Apple forums, people with USB devices and desktops have also had this trouble.
Good luck.



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