Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints, will attempt to recover by breaking constraint

Question

Below is the error message I receive in the debug area. It runs fine and nothing is wrong except that I receive this error. Would this prevent apple accepting the app? How do I fix it?

2012-07-26 01:58:18.621 Rolo[33597:11303] Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints.
    Probably at least one of the constraints in the following list is one you don't want. Try this: (1) look at each constraint and try to figure out which you don't expect; (2) find the code that added the unwanted constraint or constraints and fix it. (Note: If you're seeing NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraints that you don't understand, refer to the documentation for the UIView property translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints) 
(
    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x887d630 h=--& v=--& V:[UIButtonLabel:0x886ed80(19)]>",
    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x887d5f0 h=--& v=--& UIButtonLabel:0x886ed80.midY == + 37.5>",
    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x887b4b0 h=--& v=--& V:[UIButtonLabel:0x72bb9b0(19)]>",
    "<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x887b470 h=--& v=--& UIButtonLabel:0x72bb9b0.midY == - 0.5>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72bf860 V:[UILabel:0x72bf7c0(17)]>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c2430 UILabel:0x72bfad0.top == UILabel:0x72bf7c0.top>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c2370 UILabel:0x72c0270.top == UILabel:0x72bfad0.top>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c22b0 V:[UILabel:0x72bf7c0]-(NSSpace(8))-[UIButton:0x886efe0]>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c15b0 V:[UILabel:0x72c0270]-(NSSpace(8))-[UIRoundedRectButton:0x72bbc10]>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c1570 UIRoundedRectButton:0x72bbc10.baseline == UIRoundedRectButton:0x7571170.baseline>",
    "<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72c21f0 UIRoundedRectButton:0x7571170.top == UIButton:0x886efe0.top>"
)

Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint 
<NSLayoutConstraint:0x72bf860 V:[UILabel:0x72bf7c0(17)]>

Break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.
The methods in the UIConstraintBasedLayoutDebugging category on UIView listed in <UIKit/UIView.h> may also be helpful.

Answer 1

I would recommend to debug and find which constraint is "the one you don't want". Suppose you have following issue:

Always the problem is how to find following Constraints and Views.

There are two solutions how to do this:

1. DEBUG VIEW HIERARCHY (Do not recommend this way)

Since you know where to find unexpected constraints (PBOUserWorkDayHeaderView) there is a way to do this fairly well. Lets find UIView and NSLayoutConstraint in red rectangles. Since we know their id in memory it is quite easy.

• Stop app using Debug View Hierarchy:

• Find the proper UIView:

• The next is to find NSLayoutConstraint we care about:

As you can see, the memory pointers are the same. So we know what is going on now. Additionally you can find NSLayoutConstraint in view hierarchy. Since it is selected in View, it selected in Navigator also.

If you need you may also print it on console using address pointer:

(lldb) po 0x17dce920
<UIView: 0x17dce920; frame = (10 30; 300 24.5); autoresize = RM+BM; layer = <CALayer: 0x17dce9b0>>

You can do the same for every constraint the debugger will point to you:-) Now you decide what to do with this.

2. PRINT IT BETTER (I really recommend this way, this is of Xcode 7)

   • set unique identifier for every constraint in your view:

• create simple extension for NSLayoutConstraint:

SWIFT:

extension NSLayoutConstraint {

    override public var description: String {
        let id = identifier ?? ""
        return "id: \(id), constant: \(constant)" //you may print whatever you want here
    }
}

OBJECTIVE-C

@interface NSLayoutConstraint (Description)

@end

@implementation NSLayoutConstraint (Description)

-(NSString *)description {
    return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"id: %@, constant: %f", self.identifier, self.constant];
}

@end

• build it once again, and now you have more readable output for you:

• once you got your id you can simple tap it in your Find Navigator:

• and quickly find it:

HOW TO SIMPLE FIX THAT CASE?

• try to change priority to 999 for broken constraint.