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Re: No sleep in Mavericks

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: No sleep in Mavericks
Date 2014-01-01 03:06 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <bihf2jF4nqkU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <1lerdku.1rp1gu030jh04N%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>

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On 2013-12-31, Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
> Since I upgraded (?) my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, it will no
> longer go to sleep on its own (though I can force sleepmanually).
>
> I have been able to check that the reason is that mds_stores.maintenance
> is running a background task, and I gather that this is something to do
> with Spotlight.
>
> But I haven't been able to figure out more than this (even after
> googling). Does anyone know a way of working out precisely what is going
> on? I have tried excluding various items from Spotlight, and also
> excluding some items from my CrashPlan offsite backup. After a longish
> period of time, that process stopped running and normal sleep came back,
> but after a restart the process is again running and preventing sleep.

Enter this command in a terminal window and paste the output in a reply
here, please:

pmset -g assertions

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No sleep in Mavericks dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-12-31 22:16 +0000
  Re: No sleep in Mavericks Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-31 17:48 -0800
    Re: No sleep in Mavericks dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-01 21:07 +1300
    Re: No sleep in Mavericks billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-01 14:56 +0000
  Re: No sleep in Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-01 03:06 +0000
    Re: No sleep in Mavericks dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-01-01 12:40 +0000
      Re: No sleep in Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-01 17:44 +0000
        Re: No sleep in Mavericks dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-01-01 20:36 +0000
          Re: No sleep in Mavericks J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-01 16:04 -0500
            Re: No sleep in Mavericks dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-01-02 09:32 +0000
  Re: No sleep in Mavericks J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-31 22:13 -0500
    Re: No sleep in Mavericks dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-01-01 12:40 +0000

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