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Q: Error message when trying to open Messages.

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion (10.8) yesterday. Messages won't open. Reports "An Internal Messages error occurred. There was a problem with Messages. You need to quit and open Messages again."

 

Console shows: 7/29/12 8:53:41.594 PM Messages[834]: [Warning] Bad response from daemon for setup info

 

Anyone have any thoughts on what might be causing this?

 

I did have iChat in a subdirectory within applications, but the install blew it away. Some arcane .plist somewhere?

 

Oh, also I had system prefs in "Utilities" directory and it did not get blown away by the new install. Instead, it remained behind and I had to remove it as root user, leaving the correct system prefs in "Applications."

 

MacBook Pro 2008; 6 gb ram; hybrid SSD/SATA drive; OS X 10.8. Can't think of anything else to include that might be relevant. Ask if I forgot something, and I'll post it.

 

Any assistance that you may provide in resolving this little glitch would be sincerely appreciated. 

 

James Reid

Sierra Foothills

Northern California

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Have a copy of Server 10.7.1 on the

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 9:07 PM

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  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Aug 29, 2012 1:22 PM in response to codefish46
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    Aug 29, 2012 1:22 PM in response to codefish46

    Umm,

     

     

    IMAgent should respawn if you quit it via Activity Monitor.

    It should also appear as soon as you start your Computer as both Messages  and FaceTime use it to "Listen" for people calling you when you computer is On but the relevant app is not started.

     

    It is possible to set FaceTime to Off in the FaceTime Preferences and Messages can be set to "When I Quit Set my Status to Off-line" which does the same thing so IMAgent may not start up.

     

     

    If I check Activity Monitor, imagent (in lower case), is showing as the 200th PID  to start up (Process ID).

    It is listed as belonging to the User (Me).

     

     

     


    9:22 PM      Wednesday; August 29, 2012


    Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

     

      iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),

    "Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

  • by jlinaschke,

    jlinaschke jlinaschke Sep 16, 2012 4:52 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)
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    Sep 16, 2012 4:52 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)

    Oh nice one, this FINALLY did it for me (at least it just did… we'll see if it's repeatable)

     

    Open Activity Monitor in Application/Utilities

    Find the item IMAgent

    Highlight it and use the Quit Button top left

    Confirm Force Quit

    (It will relaunch right away)

    Restart Messages.

    Thanks!

    -Joseph

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Sep 17, 2012 11:42 AM in response to jlinaschke
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    Sep 17, 2012 11:42 AM in response to jlinaschke

    You are welcome.

     

     


    7:42 PM      Monday; September 17, 2012


    Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

     

      iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),

    "Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

  • by kyuliawan,

    kyuliawan kyuliawan Aug 16, 2015 5:17 PM in response to codefish46
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    Aug 16, 2015 5:17 PM in response to codefish46

    Check out this reply for what fixed it for me: (deleting the 'IdentityServices' folder)


    https://discussions.apple.com/message/27351298#27351298

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Aug 17, 2015 12:06 PM in response to kyuliawan
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    Aug 17, 2015 12:06 PM in response to kyuliawan

    Hi,

     

    That's Interesting.

    An Yosemite fix for a Mountain Lion issue.

     

    Reading both Original Posts I am not sure they are connected.

    If it works though ...

     

     

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    8:06 p.m.      Monday; August 17, 2015

     

      iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     Couple of iPhones and an iPad
  • by kyuliawan,

    kyuliawan kyuliawan Aug 17, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)
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    Aug 17, 2015 12:13 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)

    I found it by googling for "IMLocalObject: Could not create server for listener: <IDSDaemonListener: 0x7f88b2575940>", since I was getting those errors, and restarting IMAgent didn't help, so I figured something related to 'IM' would work.

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) Aug 17, 2015 12:19 PM in response to kyuliawan
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    Aug 17, 2015 12:19 PM in response to kyuliawan

    Thanks.

     

     

    3Sigcopy2.png

    8:19 p.m.      Monday; August 17, 2015

     

      iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     Couple of iPhones and an iPad
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