aaaand the cause was xcode was still updating...
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this particular terminal note fixed my original issue. And as noted above, was prompted to install additional components. When agreeing, I get a message box which says "An unknown error occurred. See the install log for more details" when i click try again it attempts for split second and then this message comes right back up. Anyone know a work around here?