From Genius: 11" Sleep Crash is Flash Related

[slifty]

Met with a Genius today because I've been experiencing the same issues that many of you have noted where my 11" air will sometimes "shut down" if I leave it closed for more than a few minutes. I have to hold the power button and then it boots, and chrome tells me that it suffered a crash.

The Genius told me that this is a known issue among airs which is rooted to more recent versions of flash (I'm running 10.2.156 according to whatismyflash.com). He promised that they are working on a fix, which was good to hear.

I believe it simply because this is a new issue for me (i.e. it may well have been introduced after I upgraded flash), and it would explain why the problem is intermittent (Sometimes I close the lid with open browsers that have flash, sometimes I don't.)

TL;DR - Apple knows that the airs instant start is crashing on occasion, they say it is the fault of flash, and they're working on a patch.

 

[kylewith]

So is there a temp solution. ie. Unistalling Falsh?

 

[jenzjen]

If you have the abilty, clean install your OS so you're flash and everything other plugin / addon free. See if the problem still happens.

 

[slifty]

If you have the abilty, clean install your OS so you're flash and everything other plugin / addon free. See if the problem still happens.

Yeah :-/ I use the thing too much these days to afford that. However this is driving me nuts.

I don't believe the original report any longer.

Anyone else facing this issue at all?

 

[slifty]

Just to follow up on this -- I believe the latest patch may have solved this issue.

Since making the patch a few days ago I haven't once had the black screen of sleep death.

I also started turning off my window fans... But that's surely unreleated