Wednesday, January 7, 2009

CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required

"CodeSign error: a valid provisioning profile is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'Device - iPhone OS 2.2"

This error will appear when you update your provisioning profile in iPhone SDK 2.2
or after the expiration of developer certificate and that you have a new provisioning profile from the developer portal

This is the solution (which is modified from http://www.furmanek.net/54/iphone-sdk-22-codesign-error/)

Suppose you have copied your provisioning profile called "iPhone_Development.mobileprovision" to the Library folder and build & go an old iPhone project called "MyApp", and this annoying error appears

(1) cd ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/

(2) find out the UUID of the provisioning profile
strings iPhone_Development.mobileprovision | grep "<string>.*-.*</string>"

output is like this
<string>xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx</string>

(3) copy that UUID between the string tag

(4) close xcode and go to your project
cd ~/Projects/MyApp/MyApp.xcodeproj

(5) Use a text editor to open the project.pbxproj
find the string PROVISIONING_PROFILE

paste the UUID that you copied from step (3) and put it in both Debug and Release Sections (do multiple finds) for the following line
e.g.
PROVISIONING_PROFILE = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx";

(6) Launch XCode and open the project and build & go again


Updates :
Deleting all of the lines "PROVISIONING_PROFILE" in project.pbxproj will also fix the problem for iPhone SDK 3 or above




41 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 January, 2009 06:47

    You're my hero !!!!!!

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  2. Anonymous18 January, 2009 16:04

    Thanks so much. This came up in a Google search for the error string and it's been a great help -- the last step I needed before getting my app to run on my iPod Touch. The only info to add is that users should do multiple finds for PROVISIONING_PROFILE, as my pbx file had four separate instances that needed fixing.

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  3. Anonymous21 January, 2009 12:35

    Very very helpful.

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  4. Anonymous24 January, 2009 04:58

    A million thanks. I was putting off trying to fix this problem, and you just saved me countless hours of frustration. I even cleaned up a bunch of old, useless PROVISIONING_PROFILE lines while I was there.

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  5. Anonymous27 January, 2009 12:19

    The PROVISIONING_PROFILE settings may be vestigial. New projects don't acquire them and simply deleting them fixed it for me; your mileage may vary. Nice of Apple to exclude these from the Info panes. >:-(

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  6. Anonymous29 January, 2009 07:39

    Thank you! That helped me a lot :D

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  7. Anonymous30 January, 2009 12:25

    I can't imagine how long this would've taken me to fix without this post. Your blogging is much appreciated.

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  8. Anonymous02 February, 2009 04:23

    Awesome, thank you so much!!!

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  9. Anthony Picciano04 February, 2009 06:26

    Add me to the "exceptionally grateful" list. The problem apparently still exists with SDK 2.2.1. I had to update the provisioning profiles to add a developer and all heck broke loose until I found this.

    I can stop restoring iPhone now.

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  10. WaveMotionEngine07 February, 2009 14:44

    Doood.... Deleting all of the lines fixed it for me. Thanks a million!

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  11. Anonymous08 February, 2009 08:18

    I have the same problem but I can't find the project.pbxproj file. Where is it?

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  12. Anonymous08 February, 2009 12:19

    It worked!!!! Thank you so much. Now, if you could help me with CSSMERR_TP_NOT_TRUSTED error message that would be perfect. Thanks again.

    Adrian

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  13. Daniel Drysdale09 February, 2009 20:18

    You're a life saver this has been screwing me up for a few days now.

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  14. Anonymous22 February, 2009 15:37

    I'm also very grateful for your post. I can't believe Apple has made it this hard just to change provisioning profiles! I can't wait until I start pushing out beta copies of my app...

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  15. Anonymous01 March, 2009 04:32

    legend.

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  16. Anonymous13 March, 2009 01:16

    Fantastic! So glad I found this...

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  17. Small business web site design03 April, 2009 14:59

    nice collection

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  18. Chuck Smith18 April, 2009 06:06

    Wow, I was going crazy until I found this and now I finally can test my app on my iPhone again. Thanks so much!!

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  19. web design India20 April, 2009 14:09

    Nice post

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  20. Aunty Jack24 April, 2009 17:48

    Thanks a ton... fixed the problem beautifully. I wouldn't have had a chance of finding it if you hadn't posted this.

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  21. Anonymous02 May, 2009 03:16

    In the project file it appears that there are 2 sets of build configs (PBXProject, PBXNativeTarget). When my partner modified the provisioning profile and updated the project for it, it appears that it affected only one of these 2 sets.

    So when I did "Get Info" on the target object in the project window, I saw an incorrect/vestigial entry in the Build tab for the code signing identity with the old profile UUID. When I just selected the correct one in the menu, it worked. I have no explanation for how it worked like that in my partner's setup...

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  22. José Pedro Dias05 May, 2009 19:37

    Worked with me. Using XCode for OS 3 beta 4. Thank you!

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  23. Anonymous14 May, 2009 17:37

    Thanks a lot! I have to use it a lot, please keep this site online :)

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  24. Unknown29 May, 2009 11:42

    incredible awesome post searched the web for hours without avail first class!

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  25. Anonymous01 June, 2009 07:40

    It worked for me too, Much Thanks !

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  26. Anonymous23 June, 2009 03:49

    Thanks for this. Definitely helped when changing profiles.

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  27. Zut24 June, 2009 18:56

    Add me to the "exceptionally grateful" list, too!!! Spend hours before finding your extrem helpful link. THX!

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  28. Unknown16 August, 2009 12:55

    I love you! i love internet! :-))))))))

    4 hours lost in my live and in this post i find the solution!!

    Thanks!!!

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  29. Arash Payan02 September, 2009 16:01

    Thank you so much! I lost a whole bunch of time over this, and kept creating and recreating new certificates and provisioning profiles to try and solve it.

    I just deleted all the PROVISIONING_PROFILE lines and it started compiling! Thank you!

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  30. Anonymous08 September, 2009 06:25

    Thank you thank you thank you.

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  31. Christopher Minson25 November, 2009 04:44

    Thanks so much - you just saved me a huge amount of work. You're a god!!!

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  32. victor18 December, 2009 22:23

    Does not work with iphoneOS 3.1.2. Anyone accomplished deleting PROVISIONING_PROFILE worked with xcode 3.1.4 and iphoneOS 3.1.2? Im on 10.5.8 iAtkos. thanks

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  33. Joseph Johnson Jr.23 December, 2009 03:51

    Worked for me too, thanks :-)

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  34. Filippo26 December, 2009 20:19

    YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!!!
    You saved me so many hours.... umbelivable!
    Thanks!!!

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  35. Wayne04 January, 2010 22:19

    I also had to change lines of the form:
    "CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "Don't Code Sign";

    to

    "CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "iPhone Developer";

    as it appeared there were duplicated sections and it did not seem possible to do so from within xcode. (don't ask why as this was for a 3rd party project I downloaded from a book)

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  36. Adam Krell11 March, 2010 05:44

    Thank you!!! This has saved me twice.

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  37. Anonymous20 April, 2010 23:22

    Works like a charm! Wonderful. I wasted one day in fixing this & finally found this to work.

    Thanks a ton.

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  38. Robert Gilbert06 July, 2010 08:53

    Works on IOS4 also...

    I would note that on yourApp.xcodeproj you have to right click and "Show Package Contents" to see the project.pbxproj file.

    Also, I didn't delete the lines with PROVISIONING_PROFILE in them. I had...

    "PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "";

    ...and replaced "" with my correct profile.

    Thanks a million!!!

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  39. iPad Application Development23 September, 2010 19:20

    Thanks for the nice information. I am sure, I will tweet this to my twitter account. This will help a lot of users.

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  40. Anonymous28 March, 2011 01:36

    Select xcodeproj in xCode 4. Under "Build Settings", find the "Code Signing" section and choose your developer certificate. Swoosh! The error disappears

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  41. wiinnova17 July, 2019 14:47

    Nice Post. Thanks for sharing

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