Activity Monitor crashes anytime I open the Energy tab

So I restarted my MacBook i5 and upon startup I ran ran my activity monitor and it was working till I clicked on the energy tab. It crashed and continues to crash every time I open app. I get this error message...

Process: Activity Monitor [770]

Path: /System/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor

Identifier: com.apple.ActivityMonitor

Version: 10.14 (1040)

Build Info: ActivityMonitor-1111000000000000~600

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [1]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2023-12-02 17:14:27.9052 -0800

OS Version: macOS 14.1.2 (23B92)

Report Version: 12

Bridge OS Version: 8.1 (21P1069)

Anonymous UUID: E8EF8ACF-AD47-BC31-C151-CFDCD755054A

Time Awake Since Boot: 89 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

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

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 4 Illegal instruction: 4

Terminating Process: exc handler [770]

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MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Dec 2, 2023 05:23 PM

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elevan

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8 points

Posted on Feb 8, 2024 09:52 AM

Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist

i was having this issue and was able to get Activity Monitor to start by deleting the plist.

for what it's worth, the issue started for me after a fresh install of MacOS + loading up a Time Machine backup

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