Hi,
I am running OS X on non-Apple hardware (Hackintosh). The system runs more or less flawlessly. I understand these forums are probably not the best place to be getting advice for OS X on non-Apple hardware issues. I have sought advice elsewhere and so far had no luck; so I am hoping that someone here may have some advice.
In a nut shell, the computer will sleep and wake without issue, with my energy saver settings set at 20 and 30 minutes for display sleep and computer sleep respectively. Occasionally, however, I would come back to the computer, expecting it to be asleep, and only the screens would be powered off and the computer still powered up.
After root around, I realised that it was a process called bird that was preventing the system from sleeping (by enabling the 'Power assertion' column in Activity Monitor). If that process is left in the 'Preventing Sleep' mode, the system simply will not sleep. Killing/terminating that process then seems to kick it out of preventing sleep mode and the system will go to sleep on time. In other words, when I leave the computer, unless I manually put the computer to sleep, I have to check in Activity Monitor to make sure that the bird process is not in the preventing sleep mode.
The bird process appears to be related to iCloud, which I have enabled, and disabling iCloud Drive and re-enabling it also 'resets' the process.
Has anyone had an issues similar to what I am experiencing? Google doesn't turn up much info so it may be a unique issue to how my Hackintosh is configured. My installation is pretty vanilla though; I haven't changed any of the system files.
I have a thread on InsanelyMac, a Hackintosh forum. For anyone interested and who may be able to offer any advice, you can have a read here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306369-z77x-ud5h-sometimes-doesnt-go-to-sleep/
Thanks
I am running OS X on non-Apple hardware (Hackintosh). The system runs more or less flawlessly. I understand these forums are probably not the best place to be getting advice for OS X on non-Apple hardware issues. I have sought advice elsewhere and so far had no luck; so I am hoping that someone here may have some advice.
In a nut shell, the computer will sleep and wake without issue, with my energy saver settings set at 20 and 30 minutes for display sleep and computer sleep respectively. Occasionally, however, I would come back to the computer, expecting it to be asleep, and only the screens would be powered off and the computer still powered up.
After root around, I realised that it was a process called bird that was preventing the system from sleeping (by enabling the 'Power assertion' column in Activity Monitor). If that process is left in the 'Preventing Sleep' mode, the system simply will not sleep. Killing/terminating that process then seems to kick it out of preventing sleep mode and the system will go to sleep on time. In other words, when I leave the computer, unless I manually put the computer to sleep, I have to check in Activity Monitor to make sure that the bird process is not in the preventing sleep mode.
The bird process appears to be related to iCloud, which I have enabled, and disabling iCloud Drive and re-enabling it also 'resets' the process.
Has anyone had an issues similar to what I am experiencing? Google doesn't turn up much info so it may be a unique issue to how my Hackintosh is configured. My installation is pretty vanilla though; I haven't changed any of the system files.
I have a thread on InsanelyMac, a Hackintosh forum. For anyone interested and who may be able to offer any advice, you can have a read here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306369-z77x-ud5h-sometimes-doesnt-go-to-sleep/
Thanks