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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

21 replies

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

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

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/thread/6741762?answerId=27351298022#27351298022

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 ...

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

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.

Aug 17, 2015 12:19 PM in response to kyuliawan

Thanks.

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

Error message when trying to open Messages.