Macbook Pro crashes when I remove power while hibernated I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro (MacBookPro11,3) running OS 10.9.3 that I want to keep as locked down as possible since I have sensitive company data on it. To that end, I have turned on FileVault, set DestroyFVKeyOnStandby 1 hibernatemode 25, and set a firmware password. I have turned off Wake for WiFi access, Power Nap, and graphics card switching.

This set up works most of the time. However, I have found that it always crashes under the following sequence:


Sleep by closing the lid and then Hibernate while connected to power
Remove power. The display backlight comes on; wait for it to go out. 


Boom, no more waking, now I have to hit the power button to reboot the machine. (If I remove power but immediately open the lid, then fully wake the machine by entering the firmware password and then the FileValut password, I'm fine.)

Of course I'd like a solution that maintains the protection of the data while the computer is sleeping/hibernating, but I'd settle for theories about what the computer is trying and failing to do when power is removed while hibernating so that maybe I can figure out a solution from there.
I ran into a similar issue with my own late 2013 Macbook Pro running 10.9.3. In the end, I had to run the following commands with root privileges:

pmset -a darkwakes 0
pmset -a standby 0
pmset -a standbydelay 0
pmset -a lidwake 0
pmset -a acwake 0
pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25


Once I did that, I found that I needed to wake the laptop by touching the power button (pmset -a lidwake 0 disables the automatic wake-up when you open the lid) but my MacBook Pro now hibernates properly and does not crash.

I have a post on the issues I had with 10.9.2 available here:

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/power-nap-power-management-settings-and-filevault-2/