screen not sleeping

[mikefly]

heya all,

Not super complicated -- my screen is currently set to sleep after 2 minutes -- however, it is not going to sleep.

repair permissions did not help.
batch tasks from mainmenu did not help.

reboot helped - once. then wouldn't sleep again.

Any advice?

MB C2D running 10.4.10

Thanks,

Mike

[mad jew]

What apps are running? What devices are connected? Are we talking just about sleeping the screen or sleeping the entire machine? :)

[mikefly]

just the screen sleeping -- computer sleeps fine.

This happens with and without apps running. (so I suspect apps are not the problem)

Mike

[jeremy.king]

try moving/renaming/deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
reboot
Open Energy Saver preference pane
set value on sleep time
test

[mikefly]

file doesn't show up in preferences -- does show up through search -- renamed, but it didn't seem to take.

will reboot and see what happens.

Thanks,

Mike