my Mac just turned itself on

[AeroBar]

hi,


how is this possible?

I shut down before going to bed - 100% certain, no doubts - and I just woke up a few minutes ago. I was on the other side of the room and the Mac powered up?

regards

 

[Matthew Yohe]

hi,


how is this possible?

I shut down before going to bed - 100% certain, no doubts - and I just woke up a few minutes ago. I was on the other side of the room and the Mac powered up?

regards

Go to console, look for Wake.

It will tell you the reason.

 

[AeroBar]

Matthew Yohe; thanks for answering

I'm looking at CONSOLE - but how do I find WAKE?

 

[AeroBar]

okay I found it


should I post it here? is that okay? is there any "sensitive" information on that?

 

[Matthew Yohe]

okay I found it


should I post it here? is that okay? is there any "sensitive" information on that?

You can post it here. It's all sanitary.

 

[AeroBar]

03/11/2009 01:18:31 shutdown[140] SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1257211111 337878

there is some activity at 06:08 and then........


03/11/2009 06:19:54 kernel System Sleep
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel Wake reason = USB3
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel System Wake
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel USB (UHCI)ort 1 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel Auth result for: 00:18:4d:62:18:0a MAC AUTH succeeded
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel AirPort: Link Up on en1

 

[wesrk]

03/11/2009 01:18:31 shutdown[140] SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1257211111 337878

there is some activity at 06:08 and then........


03/11/2009 06:19:54 kernel System Sleep
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel Wake reason = USB3
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel System Wake
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel USB (UHCI)ort 1 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel Auth result for: 00:18:4d:62:18:0a MAC AUTH succeeded
03/11/2009 06:30:33 kernel AirPort: Link Up on en1

I'm not an expert by any means, but it would seem like something connected to your USB woke your mac up. Seems it was sleeping and not turned off. It happened to me a few times when I was using a wireless keybord and mouse, sometimes I would wake up myself and my mac was up. Didn't know what had happened, until I checked and found out that at some point during the night, for some unknown reason, either the mouse or the kb would wake up the mac. It only happened like twice in a year, but still, it wasn't expected.

 

[c.dub]

Your Mac was in sleep mode, not shut down. During the night, a USB device woke your Mac (hard to say why without known what the device is), then your Mac automatically reconnected to your wireless network.

You can wake a Mac with USB, Bluetooth, or network activity.

 

[AeroBar]

not sleep, shutdown


03/11/2009 01:18:31 shutdown[140] SHUTDOWN_TIME:

don't know which is USB port 3 but I have a keyboard, mouse and portable hard drive