[Drakino]

So I have a bit of a mystery on my hands. I have two machines, an older MacBook Pro, and a new Mac Pro. Both are running 10.5.2, and all the other released updates (firmware, etc). And something is causing them to both wake up from sleep at exactly 7pm. Both are on ethernet, but it's not wake on lan traffic, as it will happen if I set the clock to 6:59pm and put them to sleep. Both do sync Preferences via .Mac, so I'm guessing something common between the two is causing it. However, I did not use the Migration Assistant between the two machines, and instead just copied over some data I wanted on both manually.

Things I have checked thus far:
1. Energy saver on both is set to not wake up at a scheduled time. Both do sleep at a scheduled time, but varying that setting has no effect.
2. Wake on bluetooth activity is off on both
3. Neither have any type of 3rd party alarm software that I am aware of
4. The issue happens even when Login Items for my user is empty
5. The issue happens even under a different admin account. I created a new one, fully shut down, booted, and logged into the other new account, and the machine still woke up at what it thought was 7pm.

The issue does not happen on a clean install of OS X to another hard disk on the Mac Pro, even after enabling .Mac Preference syncing and calendar syncing.

Common applications between the two outside of stock OS X and iLife apps are:
Growl
World of Warcraft
Cisco VPN Client
VMWare (though the MacBook Pro is running the 2.0 beta, while the Mac Pro runs the latest 1.1.2 release)
Shimo
Unarchiver
Perian
Flip4Mac


Console isn't being helpful, all it reveals are the standard kernel sleep and wake messages, no indication of what caused the machine to wake up.

Any ideas? I'm stumped on this one so far, and can't find what is causing this to happen.

[JKT]

Out of interest, does ARDagent crash when your system wakes? I have two problems - my iMac will never go to sleep of its own accord (I always have to do it manually, and nothing I have tried will solve this - power resets, etc) and occasionally it will wake up of its own accord. If it does wake up by itself, ARDagent has always crashed straight away afterwards (according to the crash logs and all messages.log).

[peeb]

This isn't as obvious as being maintenance scripts is it?

[Art Vandelay]

Run the following in Terminal to see if there is a firmware wake setting...

pmset -g sched

[Drakino]

Originally Posted by JKT 

Out of interest, does ARDagent crash when your system wakes?

Nope, not seeing that at all in the logs, either under the all logs, or as an individual file under the crashes.

Originally Posted by peeb 

This isn't as obvious as being maintenance scripts is it?

Not that I know of, any suggestions on where to look? I haven't added anything to either machine via cron or another method that I'm aware of. But clearly something got synced from the MBP to the MP to do this.

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 

Run the following in Terminal to see if there is a firmware wake setting...

pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:
sleep at 2:00AM every day
Scheduled power events:
[0] sleep at 05/15/08 02:00:00 by Repeating


I've got an open issue with Apple from a call yesterday, going to try calling them again later in the week to see what other suggestions they have. A clean install to another disk caused the issue to go away, but I haven't had time to start adding things into the clean install to see what caused it. Booting back to my normal OS X install, and it wakes up when it thinks it is 7pm still. Apple had suggested an Archive and Install, but the Mac Pro system restore disc isn't offering that as an option for some reason.