MacBookPro3,1 goes to sleep when VNC client attaches

[wfaulk]

I am running InsomniaT 2.0 on a SnowLeopard MacBookPro3,1 that is also running the Vine VNC server (not Apple's builtin VNC server). I use InsomniaT to leave the MBP closed when I head off to work. When I try to connect to the VNC server from a remote machine, it accepts the password and then goes to sleep.

[Archimedes Trajano (trajano)]

Interesting, did you confirm that sleep was disabled? type insomniat on the command prom;pt

ping the laptop w/ the lid closed as well

[wfaulk (wfaulk)]

Yes, sleep was disabled. I have been using it for a few weeks without problem. I have ssh'd into the computer while the lid was closed. I tested the VNC connection while I was sitting next to the computer and as soon as I enter my password in the VNC client, I can hear the computer go into sleep mode. I have not seen it go to sleep with InsomniaT installed, other than once when I left it unplugged, and I want it to sleep in that situation.

I didn't think to check the VNC connection with the lid open, in case there's something else odd going on.

[Archimedes Trajano (trajano)]

Can you verify that in your "Energy Saver" preferences that the system sleep for the power adapter is set to "Never"

[wfaulk (wfaulk)]

Yes. Never sleep on power adapter.

This must have been the first time that I tried to connect to the system using VNC since I upgraded to SnowLeopard, as the Vine server simply doesn't work. The new beta version doesn't seem to work, either.

This may just be a bug in Vine, but it's weird that it would cause InsomniaT to be bypassed.

[Archimedes Trajano (trajano)]

InsomniaT only intended to bypasses one event actually -- that's the lid close event. Any other sleep events are not really tested since that's not what I intended it to do. Doing system sleep on the apple menu will still sleep the system apparently (I think that's a feature not a bug :) )

Vine may be raising an event to cause sleep as well.

From your last note it sounds like it is a problem with Vine. Should I close this bug? You can open it against Vine if they have a link on Launchpad

[wfaulk (wfaulk)]

Yeah, good point about them triggering some other sleep event, and I agree. The fact that it will still go to sleep if the battery runs out is the main reason I switched.

Yeah, you can close the bug.