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My macbook does not want to go to sleep when I close the lid or manually choose sleep from the apple menu.

Things I have tried:

  • resetting the PRAM
  • resetting the SMC

According to PMSET the following assertion did occur:

   PreventSystemSleep                      1

No idea why or where that comes from.

Edit: Apparently cupsd is the problem, but why is it acting up all of the sudden? I haven't changed any of my printer settings lately.

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Reset to default
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Because printers make requests that prevent your computer from sleeping.

These requests can persist until you uninstall the printer. I had this happen to me for about six months and had no clue at all what it was, but the command (in terminal)

pmset -g assertions

… showed it was a printer request keeping my computer awake.

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  • wouldn't purging the print queue help without having to uninstall and install printers? Assuming that there were unfinished print jobs and that's why there were such requests.
    – lupincho
    Apr 10, 2012 at 14:15
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Remove all printers added, re-add them.

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  • Any chance of an explanation as to why this would fix the problem?
    – Mokubai ♦
    Jan 2, 2012 at 10:28

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