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My mac pro is an insomniac

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FireSlash

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Nov 11, 2007
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My mac has started waking up at random times. So far I've seen it happen once while I was playing MGS4 (Well away from the keyboard) and another time while I was asleep. I've turned WOL off, but it continues to do it. There are no scheduled wake times. Here's the system.log right after it wakes up.
Jun 15 09:15:26 Eve kernel[0]: System Wake
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmmon: powerStateDidChange flags=0x82 (state 4)
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: Intel8254x -- Link Up -- 00:1f:5b:32:53:1c -- called by interruptOccurred() --
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Advertisement Register (04d) = 0xde1
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Link Partner Ability Register (05d) = 0x45e1
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Gigabit Advertisement Register (09d) = 0xe00
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Gigabit Link Partner Ability Register (10d) = 0x4000
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- PHY Specific Status Register (17d) = 0x6f08
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: Intel8254X -- Negotiated Speed: 100 Mb/s, Duplex: Full, Flow Control: Receive Pause Enabled, Transmit Pause Enabled
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: interface en is coming UP
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: VMNetDisconnect called for port 0xb734000
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: filter detached
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: down
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: detached
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: Freeing hub at 0x13125800.
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: Intel8254x -- Link Down -- 00:1f:5b:32:53:1d -- called by enableHardware() --
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Advertisement Register (04d) = 0xde1
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Link Partner Ability Register (05d) = 0x0
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Gigabit Advertisement Register (09d) = 0xe00
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- Auto-Negotiation Gigabit Link Partner Ability Register (10d) = 0x4000
Jun 15 09:15:30 Eve kernel[0]: -- PHY Specific Status Register (17d) = 0x8000
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: VNetUserIf_Create: created userIf at 0xada2f00.
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: VMNetConnect: returning port 0xada2f00
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: Hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: Allocated hub 0x13125800 for hubNum 0.
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: VMNET_SO_BINDTOHUB: port: paddr 00:50:56:ed:5c:4c
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: Hub 0
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: Port 0
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: got dev 0x7977a04
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: up
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: bridge-en0: attached
Jun 15 09:15:33 Eve kernel[0]: vmnet: VNetUserIfFree: freeing userIf at 0xada2f00.
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Ideas?
 
Exorcist required? It's addicted to the internet?

This is an ethernet connection? That could be waking the Mac Pro. Under energy saver options tab, you can deselect the option to wake for ethernet administrator access. I'm not sure what else to check.
 
hexonxonx said:
Exorcist required? It's addicted to the internet?

This is an ethernet connection? That could be waking the Mac Pro. Under energy saver options tab, you can deselect the option to wake for ethernet administrator access. I'm not sure what else to check.
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Yeah, it's off. Sorry, I use 'WOL' (Wake On Lan) which isn't the same terminology that Apple uses.
 
FireSlash said:
Yeah, it's off. Sorry, I use 'WOL' (Wake On Lan) which isn't the same terminology that Apple uses.
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Looks like you have VMWare. Not very likely I suppose but..

could it be that you have Wake On Lan turned on inside a
virtual machine, and that's the trigger? :)
 
Infrared said:
Looks like you have VMWare. Not very likely I suppose but..

could it be that you have Wake On Lan turned on inside a
virtual machine, and that's the trigger? :)
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VMWare was not running either time. I'll try this just to be safe though.

EDIT: Looks like it's disabled, and greyed out. It appears the VMWare ethernet drivers do not support WOL.
 
Any resolution? I'm having the same problem

I've had my Mac Pro for a couple of months and I'm having the same problem.

I've tried disconnecting all leads except for the power lead butit still starts/wakes.

Can anyone help?
 
If it's something to do with ethernet, maybe just unplug it and turn off airport, etc, so there can't be any outside communication. That will help narrow it down...

However, I would ask about your Bluetooth; is it always available? Have you ever noticed the icon with a squiggly through it? I have a White C2D Macbook and it suffers the same problem, so much so I can never put it to sleep and then in my backpack as chances are it will wake up and just overheat in the bag. My best research has determined it's something messed up with the bluetooth module. I haven't heard if MP's suffer the same problem, and my 3 week old MP has yet to become an insomniac so it might just be MB/MBP related.
 
My Mac pro had this at one point. It would wake itself up several times during the night and scare the crap out of me with the fans going at full speed. I ended up just shutting it off every night because no one could find a solution for it. It ended up being fixed with the next update to OS X, couldn't tell you how or why.
 
wheezy said:
Well, you've flushed all my theories down the John. Bowing out...
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After looking at my event logs I noticed EyeTV was mentoned several times:

"20/10/2008 22:45:37 [0x0-0x15015].com.elgato.eyetvhelper[174] *** eventType: wakepoweron"

The elgato software updates the program guide every hour and will wake the machine, sure enough I disabled this option and my Mac Pro now sleeps soundly!

I hadn't thought about the EyeTV software because I installed it on my Mac Mini and it got transferred using the migration tool when I got the Pro, I only use the elgato software for removing ads from programs I've recorded on the Mac Mini downstairs and have never actually connected the tuner!

Hope this helps others.
 
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