Re: Diagnosing insomnia

Chris Ridd wrote:
On 1/3/06 9:15, in article 46l71lFbepmoU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "zoara"
<me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What else could it be? And why the hell is it intermittent? Last night I
had it playing insomnia again, and I thought that was great as it would
give me chance to troubleshoot properly tonight. But after a quick play
in Safari and MacSOUP looking at the new $SHINY from Apple last night,
and this morning it was sound asleep. What the hell?

I suppose that apps can refuse the OS's request to sleep the machine because
they're "busy" and sleeping would break whatever they're doing, though I
have absolutely no evidence for this wild guesswork.

I'm wildly guessing in the same direction. That's the only sensible
thing that seems to be less. Or maybe it's a hardware problem. Did
anyone just hear ominous thunder?


Did you have VLC running? I *think* I've seen my PB not going to sleep
because VLC was sitting doing nothing in the background.

Nope, no VLC.

I'm going to try to get it to stop sleeping again (a task in itself) and
then quit processes one by one. It's going to involve sitting and
watching the machine quite a lot, I suspect; even 'go to sleep in one
minute' is a long time when you have to repeat it over and over again.

-z-


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