Leopard goes into DEEP SLEEP and doesn't want to wake

My wife has been complaining about this type of thing on her ppc mini for a while now. I don't think your alone.

It sounds like some application or process is hanging on wake-up. That means the CPU usage spikes and causes the system to stall.

What apps were running before you put the MBP to sleep? Are you connected to any network shares?

Network shares are one thing to look at, but only if you've got a file open on one--Leopard is WAY better about dropped share connections than any previous MacOS. Perpetual beachball stalls on network volume loss were all too common under 10.3, but now I just get the polite little "connection lost--disconnect?" floating window.

What I have seen that acts similar to that is a flakey mouse driver--before Logitech (marginally) cleaned up their act, I would see exactly that sort of crazy mouse behavior after some wakes from sleep.


Also, a note if anybody runs across this thread looking for a different problem: Since upgrading to Leopard, my G5 tower sometimes refuses to wake when I hit a key on the keyboard. Pushing the power button, however, works fine, so if it seems to be comatose, try that--apparently Leopard sometimes (not always) turns off whatever firmware thing watches for USB input (or maybe kills power to the keyboard).

My 2.16 MBP used to do the same thing; either updates or a clean install fixed it. You might want to be careful about what is running when you sleep your MBP, just in case a program is noncompliant. It would happen to me with nothing running however. Good luck. You might try the Apple support forums.