Stuck on "Next break in less than a minute"

[olshevski]

Since updating from Monterey to Ventura 13.1 BreakTimer doesn't show breaks after the system sleep. In the menu it just shows "Next break in less than a minute", but the break never starts not after a minute, nor in a longer time. Even if I press "Start break now" nothing happens.

If I relaunch the app, it starts showing breaks, but after the first sleep (the longer one, e.g. overnight), it seems to never be working.

[letharion]

This happens to me as well. The app appears to get stuck when attempting to initiate the pause. Indeed, restarting the app does solve the problem.

Also, nothing gets written to the logs at this points, so there's little debugging information available.

Edit: One day later, the machine has been sleeping all night and today the problem didn't manifest. I'll keep looking for how to repro the issue.

[letharion]

Today I noticed again the app doesn't start any breaks, and it's stuck in "Next break in less than a minute"-state.

The last few logs sadly don't help much:

[2023-02-06 13:20:02.596] [info] GONG_START_PLAY
[2023-02-06 13:20:02.596] [info] Send event GONG_START_PLAY []
[2023-02-06 13:20:02.598] [info] BREAK_LENGTH_GET
[2023-02-06 13:41:09.697] [info] GONG_START_PLAY
[2023-02-06 13:41:09.698] [info] Send event GONG_START_PLAY []

[adrianh]

+1 to this happens to me too.

[tom-james-watson]

If the app ever gets into that state, quitting and reopening will fix it.

[kristiannotari]

+1 to this happening to me too on Ventura 13.3.1.

It seems to be inconsistent, like sometimes it gets stuck, sometimes it doesn't. I have my MacBook Pro with its shell closed all the time and plugged to a docking station delivering power, and it usually keeps working normally. Went for launch for circa 1 hour locking the screen and then the problem happened again. Over night it happens often too. Otherwise working like a charm. If I lock the screen for shorter periods it keeps working correctly

[torpesco]

Another "me too". I've randomly had this issue, though not as much recently. I've seen no pattern to it.

[kristiannotari]

In a similar discussion I had to check the "prevent Mac from sleep when display is off" option under screens -> advanced. You can read more about that here: #222 (reply in thread)

Hopefully this helps to solve this issue too when dealing with docked Macs for long times, not sure about overnight though.

[letharion]

For what it's worth I also use the composer primarily docked and with the lid closed at all times, which might mean the sleeping happens a lot.

[torpesco]

The app did this to me today. It was working on Friday. I don't think I've had a break reminder today. Is there some kind of diagnostics I could gather when this happens? Process samples using Activity Monitor, or anything else?

[cletter7]

I have the same issue, it works for some time and then gets stuck in "Next break in less than a minute" state.

[ershov]

This is regularly happening to me too.

[wuwendell]

+1 on this issue. If I inspect the last few lines of the log,

[2023-06-21 11:53:50.748] [info]  BREAK_POSTPONE
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.057] [info]  ALLOW_POSTPONE_GET
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.080] [info]  SETTINGS_GET
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.085] [info]  ALLOW_POSTPONE_GET
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.107] [info]  GONG_START_PLAY
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.109] [info]  Send event GONG_START_PLAY []
[2023-06-21 12:18:58.111] [info]  BREAK_LENGTH_GET
[2023-06-21 12:38:59.337] [info]  GONG_START_PLAY
[2023-06-21 12:38:59.340] [info]  Send event GONG_START_PLAY []
[2023-06-21 17:31:24.974] [info]  SETTINGS_GET

Notice the large period of inactivty between 12:38 and 17:31. I had left my Mac to get lunch, so the display presumably turned off and it automatically went to sleep. I returned and continued working only a few minutes after the display (and probably Mac itself) went to sleep, but it got stuck in the "Next break in less than a minute" state, and the next break never initiated, and I did not notice until 5pm in the day. I clicked various buttons, including Disable, Enable, Restart break period, and Start break now, all before clicking Settings. As seen in the logs, only the settings button triggered any log actions. When I clicked Disable in this bugged state, the screen would still display the "time until next break" as "less than a minute" rather than completely removing all the aforementioned buttons and the time until next break.

[ershov]

Hi,
A little update on the issue here.

I've installed the Break Timer on another Mac (Pro, M1) with the latest OS and it works like a charm. That's while it's consistently getting stuck on my Air M2.

Any ideas where to look at to compare what's different on these two machines?

[wuwendell]

Can confirm I also have the M2 chip Mac.

[bovae]

Facing the same issue :(

MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Pro chip
MacOS Ventura 13.4.1

[eyalyoli]

same here mac pro 13" i7 OS Sonoma v14

this might be related
electron/electron#4465

also turns out you need to reset the timer
using these hooks

I see it's used in the code but looks like to monitor that you are "away" not to reset the timer

[eyalyoli]

I would suggest adding under app ready event this part:

...
import { BreakTime, tickInterval } from "../../types/breaks";
...

app.on('ready', () => {
   ...
  electron.powerMonitor.on('suspend', () => {
    clearInterval(tickInterval);
  });
  electron.powerMonitor.on('resume', () => {
    initBreaks();
  });
  ...
})

[Fl0rent]

same here

MacBook Pro 14" with M2 Pro chip
MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2

[NourMaka]

MacBook Pro 14" with M1 Pro chip
MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2

Also with the same issue; restarting the app does the trick but it'll get stuck the next day or so

[happydutch]

Same here. BreakTimer works once, but subsequent times it is stuck on the "less than a minute" indicator. Cannot force a break.

Zorin OS 17 Core (Ubuntu-based)

Update: it is stuck now at

[lhalbers]

This issue occurs for me on a Lenovo T14s running Windows 11. The break timer is stuck in "Next break in less than one minute" indefinitely.

[dougmcmillan]

I'm also seeing this

MacBook Pro
M3 Pro
Sonoma 14.3 (23D56)