I also had the first of your problems just today:
ERROR: unable to get the receiver data from the DB
I don't know the reason (maybe somehow the cache got corrupt) but
deleting all of the simulator's Applications folder made the problem go away for me.
rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/7.0-64/Applications/*
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