Messages Quit Unexpectedly

Messages icon is bouncing in dock but the program won't open even briefly, immediately crashes. It does appear that notifications are still being I'm using Big Sur 11.6.8.

I continue to receive the following Process: Messages [1186] Path: /System/Applications/Messages.app/Contents/MacOS/Messages Identifier: com.apple.MobileSMS Version: 14.0 (6000) Build Info: Messages_iosmac-1130120002001001~2 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Messages [1186] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2022-08-16 12:14:33.727 -0400 OS Version: macOS 11.6.8 (20G730) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: BA67DDBC-0328-42C7-DD1F-FC6C06DBCE1D

Time Awake Since Boot: 1500 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information: dyld3 mode *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Unable to activate constraint with anchors <NSLayoutDimension:0x600002d8a580 "CKUIWindow_60754894:0x7fc75b7c74d0.width"> and <NSLayoutDimension:0x600002d8a2c0 "UILayoutContainerView:0x7fc75b6a3870.width"> because they have no common ancestor. Does the constraint or its anchors reference items in different view hierarchies? That's illegal.' terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException abort() called

Application Specific Backtrace 1: 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff206f2beb __exceptionPreprocess + 242 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff2042bd92 objc_exception_throw + 48 2 CoreAutoLayout 0x00007fff273cf701 -[NSLayoutConstraint setActive:] + 0 3 CoreAutoLayout 0x00007fff273cf8da +[NSLayoutConstraint _addOrRemoveConstraints:activate:] + 431 4 ChatKit 0x00007fff55cea089 -[CKMessagesController viewDidLayoutSubviews] + 608 5 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446f9e11 -[UIView(CALayerDelegate) layoutSublayersOfLayer:] + 3499 6 QuartzCore 0x00007fff26e09373 -[CALayer layoutSublayers] + 326 7 QuartzCore 0x00007fff26e08cd9 _ZN2CA5Layer16layout_if_neededEPNS_11TransactionE + 619 8 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446f8efc -[UIView(Hierarchy) layoutBelowIfNeeded] + 1263 9 UIKitCore 0x00007fff447519fa -[_UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator _applyBlocks:releaseBlocks:] + 294 10 UIKitCore 0x00007fff44715d12 -[_UIViewControllerTransitionContext __runAlongsideAnimations] + 260 11 UIKitCore 0x00007fff44750f0d -[_UIWindowAnimationController animateTransition:] + 356 12 UIKitCore 0x00007fff44681696 -[UIWindow _adjustSizeClassesAndResizeWindowToFrame:] + 937 13 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446812d5 -[UIWindow _resizeWindowFrameToSceneBoundsIfNecessary] + 238 14 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446ed835 -[UIWindow addRootViewControllerViewIfPossible] + 819 15 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446837ab -[UIWindow _updateLayerOrderingAndSetLayerHidden:actionBlock:] + 222 16 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446eb67c -[UIWindow _setHidden:forced:] + 361 17 UIKit 0x00007fff78291750 -[UIWindowAccessibility _orderFrontWithoutMakingKey] + 84 18 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446eb4c0 -[UIWindow _mainQueue_makeKeyAndVisible] + 42 19 ChatKit 0x00007fff55b5621c -[CKSceneDelegate scene:willConnectToSession:options:] + 2270 20 ChatKit 0x00007fff55d06177 -[CKMessagesSceneDelegate scene:willConnectToSession:options:] + 896 21 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446654b8 +[UIScene _sceneForFBSScene:create:withSession:connectionOptions:] + 1462 22 UIKitCore 0x00007fff44663a2c -[UIApplication _connectUISceneFromFBSScene:transitionContext:] + 1109 23 UIKitCore 0x00007fff44662779 -[UIApplication workspace:didCreateScene:withTransitionContext:completion:] + 295 24 UIKitCore 0x00007fff446625cc -[UIApplicationSceneClientAgent scene:didInitializeWithEvent:completion:] + 358 25 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318c24cf -[FBSScene _callOutQueue_agent_didCreateWithTransitionContext:completion:] + 398 26 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318df780 __94-[FBSWorkspaceScenesClient createWithSceneID:groupID:parameters:transitionContext:completion:]_block_invoke.176 + 102 27 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318b16fa -[FBSWorkspace _calloutQueue_executeCalloutFromSource:withBlock:] + 209 28 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318df45d __94-[FBSWorkspaceScenesClient createWithSceneID:groupID:parameters:transitionContext:completion:]_block_invoke + 354 29 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff203d6806 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 30 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff203d96fd _dispatch_block_invoke_direct + 241 31 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318b1612 FBSSERIALQUEUE_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK + 30 32 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318f91f3 -[FBSSerialQueue _targetQueue_performNextIfPossible] + 433 33 FrontBoardServices 0x00007fff318b15da -[FBSSerialQueue _performNextFromRunLoopSource] + 22 34 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff20678cec CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION + 17 35 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff20678c54 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 180 36 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff206789d4 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 242 37 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff206773fc __CFRunLoopRun + 893

Messages Quit Unexpectedly
 
 
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