{"id":6513,"date":"2012-11-06T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:48:30","slug":"mac-freezes-waking-from-screen-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/mac-freezes-waking-from-screen-saver\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Freezes Waking From Screen Saver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since updating to Mountain Lion, or perhaps later versions of Lion, I&rsquo;ve seen a bug where the Mac <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/3949663?start=0&amp;tstart=0\">freezes when coming out of the screen saver<\/a>. There&rsquo;s no way to unlock the screen. It has not actually kernel panicked, as applications continue to run and I can ssh in, however the Mac is essentially unusable until it&rsquo;s been shut down&mdash;via ssh, as that&rsquo;s a bit cleaner than using the power button. This problem didn&rsquo;t occur every time I used the screen saver, but at its peak it was happening nearly once a day.<\/p>\r\n<p>I tried different screen savers, but that didn&rsquo;t help. What did help was disabling the screen saver entirely (setting it to &ldquo;Start after: Never&rdquo;) and instead using Energy Saver&rsquo;s &ldquo;Display sleep&rdquo; setting to lock the screen. (I had been using this before, but with Energy Saver set to kick in after a longer delay than the screen saver.) Using these settings for nearly a month, the problem has not recurred.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, I&rsquo;m still seeing various display waking problems that have been happening since Lion. Sometimes both screens remain blank (but with the backlight on) until after I&rsquo;ve entered my password and pressed Return. Other times, the internal display wakes but the external one doesn&rsquo;t. In that situation, the workaround is to unplug and replug the display. The window positions get all messed up, then <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/moom\/\">Moom<\/a> fixes them automatically.<\/p>\r\n<p>All of this is to say that I still think that 10.6.8 was the pinnacle of Mac OS X reliability.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since updating to Mountain Lion, or perhaps later versions of Lion, I&rsquo;ve seen a bug where the Mac freezes when coming out of the screen saver. There&rsquo;s no way to unlock the screen. It has not actually kernel panicked, as applications continue to run and I can ssh in, however the Mac is essentially unusable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,30,210,17,155,1227],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-snowleopard","tag-mountainlion","tag-moom","tag-top-posts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14704,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}