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How many people who own a late model G5 (single chip dual core) have sleep problems and how many of those people are having kernel panics? Has anybody gotten their late model G5's to automatically sleep?

[Thorzdad]

If you do some research, you will find that G5s have had wake-from-sleep issues from day-1. Most G5 owners simply never sleep the HD. You are free to sleep the monitor, though.
My G5 can auto-sleep just fine. It's the wake-up where all hell breaks loose.

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Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

If you do some research, you will find that G5s have had wake-from-sleep issues from day-1. Most G5 owners simply never sleep the HD. You are free to sleep the monitor, though.
My G5 can auto-sleep just fine. It's the wake-up where all hell breaks loose.

I did not have a sleep problem until I went to 10.5. But what I have noticed is that if I do not shutdown my machine which allows the daily maintenance routines to run at night the machine remains stable. If I shut the machine down everyday my machine suffers from kernel panics after day or two. I have gotten around this issue by running cocktail which will run the daily routine when I want to.

[Thorzdad]

Yeah, the maintenance routines are pretty much the reason I leave my G5 running. If I DO shut it down, I don't use Cocktail to do them. Terminal, baby.
sudo periodic daily (weekly, monthly)

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Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

Yeah, the maintenance routines are pretty much the reason I leave my G5 running. If I DO shut it down, I don't use Cocktail to do them. Terminal, baby.
sudo periodic daily (weekly, monthly)

Why couldn't apple make this part of the shutdown process? Instead of not allowing our machines to sleep? I am pretty sure the sleep issue is related to the G5 instability issue.

[Big Mac]

G5 DP 2.0, no sleep problems here. Okay, since 10.5 I've occasionally had to manually wake my G5 when it did not wake from the keyboard. Manual wake as in touch the power button to bring it out of sleep. That bug cropped up more often in the earlier 10.5 updates, but now it's very infrequent.

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Originally Posted by Big Mac 

G5 DP 2.0, no sleep problems here. Okay, since 10.5 I've occasionally had to manually wake my G5 when it did not wake from the keyboard. Manual wake as in touch the power button to bring it out of sleep. That bug cropped up more often in the earlier 10.5 updates, but now it's very infrequent.

Is your G5 a dual core or two separate chips? How old is your machine?

[Big Mac]

G5 DP 2.0 - dual processor, Rev. b (June 2004).

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Originally Posted by Big Mac 

G5 DP 2.0 - dual processor, Rev. b (June 2004).

I believe you have a dual chip G5.

[Big Mac]

Yeah, that's what I meant by dual processor rather than dual core.