Launch iOS simulator from Xcode and getting a black screen, followed by Xcode hanging and unable to stop tasks

Question

I\'m having trouble running my basic iPhone application (while going through the Stanford iTunes CS193p lectures) in the iOS simulator.

I\'ve been searching for a wh

Answer 1

I've managed to find the fix for this. It was found courtesy of this blog post:

http://vandadnp.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/xcode-4-3-1-cannot-attach-to-ios-simulator/

The solution is to press cmd+shift+, (command, shift and then comma ",").. that loads some options for release or debugging.

Change the debugger from LLDB to GDB. This fixes the issue.