Here\'s my environment:
➜ AwesomeProject node --version v6.3.0 ➜ AwesomeProject npm --version 3.10.3 ➜ AwesomeProject react-native --version react-native-cli: 1.0.
This is old question but I understand people run into this even today. Posting what I saw as a solution for me.
I noticed I needed to free-up system resources to be able to open any new simulator instances. I killed few processes, was able to open simulator via Xcode and then via react-native too.
Good luck!