MacBook Pro retina wakes to black or grey screen

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Hi all, my 9 month old rMBP has started to wake from sleep to a black or grey screen and I have to force close the system and restart to get a usable desktop back.
It started about a week ago when it woke to a grey screen (like the background when you re-install the system). That happened a few times but in the last day or so it has started to resume to a black screen.
This only happens after it's been asleep for a few hours. If it only sleeps for half an hour it's fine.

I think I'll try a re-install and see if that cures it.
Any other suggestions?
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Well I re-installed ML and it cured things for a few days.
Sadly now it's worse!
It now doesn't wake at all. It's absolutely dead when I try to wake it up from a sleep of a few hours.
No sign of life at all, no keyboard light, no screen backlight.
If I press and release the power button nothing happens at all.
All I can do is do a hard shutdown and then boot from cold - which works fine.

I phoned Applecare who told me to reset SMC and PRAM (I think it was) and they opened a case number in case that doesn't solve the issue.

Should I be looking at anything else?
Thanks.
 

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If resetting the SMC and PRAM does not resolve the problem, it's probably time to make an appointment with your local Apple Store genius bar.
 
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Ok I'll do that after keeping an eye on things for a day or two.
Thanks chscag.
 
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Well it seems the problem is solved but in an unexpected way.

I have uninstalled rEFInd and my problems have gone away!
I have OSX, Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13-04 (both EFI booting) so I installed rEFInd boot manager to get those pretty little icons at startup (and to get rid of one of the screens shown by EFI Boot in the Alt+boot screen).
When refind is installed I get the problem. When refind is uninstalled the waking from sleep problem disappears.

I have conversed with the maintainer of refind and he informs me that a small number of people have already reported this problem to him. It seems that it can happen with later Mac's.
I'm hoping a fix can be worked out as I quite like refind and would like to start using it again.
Anyway, for the moment refind is uninstalled and things are fine.
 

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Thanks for posting back. Instead of using rEFInd, why don't you try rEFIt instead? It's bug free as far as I know and it's also freeware. And yes, it gives you those pretty icons on startup!

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Thanks chscag.
I thought about refit (and indeed may give it a try) however, refind is a modern fork of refit and refit hasn't been maintained for a number of years now.
 
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chscag, I've installed refit and no grey/black screen on wakeup so far :)
 

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OK, great. I've been using rEFIt for years (I know development has stopped) and it just works. It's easy to install and remove. It was a bit hard at first to get its configuration file going the way I like but after a lot of experimenting and reboots, I was successful.
 
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OK, great. I've been using rEFIt for years (I know development has stopped) and it just works. It's easy to install and remove. It was a bit hard at first to get its configuration file going the way I like but after a lot of experimenting and reboots, I was successful.

Yeah, I haven't actually configured it yet, it's sort of running as it came :|
I would like to get rid of some of its menu entries though if you have any suggestions. The refit config page seems a bit fuzzy :Confused:
Thanks again.

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actually chscag disregard the above :)
In order to update to Windows 8.1 I've had to resort to a Bootcamp partition due to graphics driver problems.
 
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For anyone that sees this again, I have a 13" MBP mid 2012, running Yosemite 10.10.3, and I was using rEFIt and got this problem. Didn't try rEFInd, but I am absolutely positive that it is a problem with rEFIt because:
1. When I don't touch any buttons at the black screen, it boots into Ubuntu, which is my default partition to boot into in rEFIt if I had started from cold boot
2. If I "navigate" to the Mac OS X partition using the arrow keys (I know it's the third entry, since it is on the rEFIt menu on startup), and click enter, it wakes correctly to Mac OS X

Not sure if it's a problem in rEFInd as well, but I'm willing to bet since it sounds like other people have this as well, that it is.
 

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