[Ti] Panicking on wake up

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 6/4/2003 9:54 AM, ursus at mac.com at ursus at mac.com wrote:

>> Hi all
>> 
>> My 1gig TiBook has started crashing when I wake it up. This doesn't
>> happen all the time, but enough to make it obvious that something is
>> amiss.
>> 
>> Is this a known problem with a known fix? I'm running OS 10.2.6.
> 
> You should do a fresh installation of OS X.

BEFORE you do that -- check to make sure that the machine isn't "waking up"
when the screen is closed.

I just dealt with this situation.  Every time I had the machine plugged in
and closed the lid, the computer would wake up and go to sleep every second.
When it was waking up, it was looking for a screen to display on, wasn't
finding one, sending a "screen resize" of (0,0) to all the apps, which then
crashed because they ended up doing a divide by zero.  If I had the screen
saver up (and requiring a password to wake up), things were better because
the screen saver doesn't really care about the size.

The *actual* problem?  The lower right of my keyboard was flexing up *just
enough* so that one of the keys could be pressed by the closed screen,
causing the machine to wake up.

Solution: "straighten" the keyboard in that area so that the screen didn't
hit the keys.

-- 
Glenn L. Austin <><
Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver
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