Messages app blows up upon opening
Messages app is blowing up open opening...
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.0
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Messages app is blowing up open opening...
iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.0
Thank you John. "Blow up" ~ it would start to open and then "blow" as in "break, disappear, stop opening, and the malfunction window would open up with the software scripts (that I don't know an iota of...! I copied this in case it was needed:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [26666]
Separately, there was an update for the Beta version of Big Sur and after the hours that stuff takes to load, the problem went away. It works well. SO, I have no idea what happened, nor how did it got fixed. But! I appreciate your itetion of assisting and supporting. Thank you so much!
I understand the Messages app is crashing. If you are using a prerelease version of macOS, then crashes are to be expected. I surmise there is an appropriate place to report an application crash.
Blowing up... as in the app is opening in full screen mode?
Accessibility Preferences > Vision > Zoom?
Or...?
Thank you so much John! Appreciated!
Keep safe!
Messages app blows up upon opening