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Fixing issue where Mac will not recover from sleep

  • February 9, 2026
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We have run into a situation where closing the lid on a Mac Book Pro or even just setting the device to sleep is resulting in a machine that cannot be recovered without holding down the power button.

I’ve looked for changes that might be causing this but the only thing I changed (and have now disabled) was an extension attribute that was reporting PlatformSSO status.

OS impacted are Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma generally on latest versions.

If anyone has any clues on which logs might reveal why this is happening or to help understand what a fix might look like, that information would be gratefully received. 

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Chris_Hafner
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  • February 10, 2026

Interesting question. Just to make sure I understand. You have a number of MacBook pros (General scope and models might be relevant here). It would be great to have some more data as this could be all over the place

 

...in general, go to console, look for “Log Reports” and search around for “Shutdown”. Then Diagnostic Logs for any Kernel Panics. Sorry I don’t have more thoughtful or specific recommendations. Not much to go on here. If you wonder about any JAMF tie in via the extension attribute/inventory process, check /var/log/jamf.log to see if anything is happening there. 

 


Josh-Q
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  • Jamf Heroes
  • February 10, 2026

Agree with Chris...it would be good to know the scope of the issue. You can use the pmset command to look at the power management logs. Might be worthwhile to see the Sleep / Wake events and their cause. You can try running this log command right after it happens to see what it’s saying are the exact sleep triggers and wake triggers.

 

pmset -g log | egrep -i "entering sleep|wake reason|darkwake|sleep.*cause|clamshell|lid|thermal|display is turned off|hang|panic"