Hard freezes on wake from sleep on MBP

Three times now my MBP has frozen hard and I'm blaming Parallels. When I open the lid, everything runs slow and I get the beach ball, starting in Parallels (I also see the clock frozen in Parallels) and gradually all apps. I try to force quit Parallels. No luck. Eventually, the pointer freezes and I'm dead in the water. I'm running 3188 XP Pro through a Boot Camp partition. Anybody seen anything similar? This does not happen every time I wake from sleep and it seems to happen when I change my location from home to work or vice versa.

Steve

 

Do you happen to have afp shares left open in the background?

 

I know exactly what you mean. But no, I always make it a point to make sure I disconnect my shared volumes when I put the machine to sleep. Why Apple hasn't fixed the timeout (or at least put up a dialog asking what to do right away) for shared volumes for *years* now is beyond me.

Steve

 

I don't know why Apple has not fixed it either... My laptop users CONSTANTLY run into that issue.
It was just a thought...

 

Still no solution and it keeps happening. It may be a 10.4.9 thing. I've tried pausing the VM before putting the MBP to sleep with no affect. It still occasionally crashes. The next thing I'll try is not changing the location (from the Apple menu) so quickly on wake from sleep. Maybe changing the networking environment too soon is causing the problem. Other than this, I'm at a loss. I've *never* had freezing hard crashes in OS X, so this is very disturbing.

Steve

 

Or, see if you don't change the location unless Parallels is shut down...

 

Well, I've pretty much confirmed that the problem is not sleep, it's changing the location. I've been using bridged ethernet to get a separate IP address at work. Changing the location when I get home to use my wireless network or vice versa kills Parallels and brings down my entire machine. Ouch. I'd say this is a bug. If anyone else can confirm this, that would be fantastic since I wouldn't be the only one.

Steve

 

Steve,

Thanks for narrowing down the problem. I remember we observed something similar in older PD versions and with older OS X like 10.4.6. We will try to reproduce and fix the problem.

Meanwhile, I would suggest you suspending your VM before changing location and resuming it when the location is changed. This should workaround that nasty hang.

 

Hmm... Interesting... I am going to go test the two scenarios.

 

Well, since this is a BC partition VM, I can't suspend it. I tried pausing it yesterday, but that didn't work. I still got the hang almost right after I un-suspended the VM.

Thanks for responding! I've tried checking the logs, but I haven't seen anything interesting. Is there a certain log that would be helpful?

Steve

 

Hello everybody!

We have investigated this problem. Parallels hangs when you change your network location.
And here is a workaround:
1. Click on desktop to remove focus from Parallels.
2. Change location.

But. The issue remains and we will try to fix it.

Thank you for reporting.

 

Awesome! Thanks for the help!

Steve