Unexpected Restarts
Problem:
Sometimes, for reasons I don’t understand, my computer restarts while it is asleep. Frustratingly, a 60-second countdown to this tends to happen just after I open the lid, so if I don’t log in quickly, it restarts. This seems… odd. This has been happening intermittantly (sometimes daily, sometimes not for weeks) since June 2016.
Investigation:
I am pretty sure that this is not my computer trying to update itself, since I’ve applied all my patches and updates from the App Store.
I am on OSX 10.11.6
I checked: “System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items” and inspected what was there and removed literally everything, in case one of them is causing it. I did add Terminal.
When I go to: “Apple+Option > System Information > Software > Applications > sort by Obtained From Audit” I see many things… I was briefly disturbed by one which turned out to be my office printer.
I removed Cisco apps from /Applications/Cisco because I no longer need them
Ideas: boot in verbose log, then check the logs
removed old logs from /var/log and then read the remainders
From my system.log:
Dec 29 19:57:55 administrator com.apple.kextd[48]: ERROR: invalid signature for com.cisco.kext.acsock, will not load Dec 29 19:57:55 administrator acwebsecagent[23820]: OpenPlugin returned kdf error: 1
I have no idea whether this might be related.
Also tried:
- Fixing everything that “brew doctor” says
- upgrading xcode to the latest version
More notes:
Now the computer does not restart (as seen by putting “uptime” in my on-console-start, and putting Terminal to open on restart), but all the apps close. 10:10 up 2 days, 13:07, 2 users, load averages: 2.18 2.41 2.29