Screen saver no longer working
Lock screen settings not working. After installing Ventura 13.0.1 Screen Saver no longer activates nor display turns off after setting time to activate and turn off under the lock screen settings.
iMac
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Hola Eric,
Thanks for the reply. I actually found the culprit. It was the "nsurlsessiond" file preventing sleep. I discovered investigating with terminal:
If you can’t spot any obvious culprits in the Activity Monitor, then it’s time to dig a little deeper.
The macOS system supports a feature called power assertions, which programs can invoke if they need to prevent the system from going to sleep.
You can check whether any of these sleep assertions are currently active, by launching your Mac’s Terminal. Open the Terminal by navigating to ‘Applications > Utilities > Terminal’ and then issue the following command:
pmset -g assertions
This command returns quite a bit of information.
The first section is a list of all the different categories of assertions. A 0 next to a category means it isn’t active, but a 1 means that this assertion is currently active.
Below this list, you’ll find information about the specific processes that are invoking any active assertions, although this information does take a bit of deciphering.
Here’s a snippet of the Terminal output:
Listed by owning process:
pid 182(coreaudiod): [0x0000022a00018162] 00:00:08 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: “com.apple.audio.AppleHDAEngineOutput:1B,0,1,1:0.context.preventuseridlesleep”
Firstly, ‘pid’ stands for Process ID, and the number immediately after it is the actual process ID.
You can use this number to identify the process in your Mac’s Activity Monitor, so launch the Activity Monitor and then open either the CPU, Memory, Disk or Network tabs. All of these tabs contain a PID column, so work your way down the list, looking for the same process ID you identified in the Terminal.
Some processes will only appear in certain tabs, so you may need to work your way through several Activity Monitor tabs before you find the process you’re looking for.
Once you’ve located the process, you’ll see its related application in the Activity Monitor’s left-hand column. Simply closing this application may solve your problem and allow your Mac to drift off to sleep again, but sometimes you may need to force-quit the process itself.
I followed this process and located "nsurlsessiond" file and force quit it, after which, voila! the iMac baby doses off with no problem.
I found this from the following link:
https://www.chriswrites.com/mac-refusing-sleep-figure-whats-keeping-macos-awake/
Cheers!
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