Codesign check fails Xcode 4

Question

I just created all new dev and deployment certs and I\'m getting this weird error when I try to validate the application in the archive manager:

error: Codesign          


        

Answer 1

Valid But Mismatched Certificates

This error can occur when submitting an application to the Mac App Store. The error occurs because one or more code signatures are valid but not signed by Mac App Store appropriate certificates:

Invalid Signature - The nested app bundle FRAMEWORK at path APPNAME.app/Contents/Frameworks/FRAMEWORK.framework has following signing error(s): valid on disk /Volumes/data01/app_data/dstr/mz_4939925606610311185dir/mz_6704668226144376567dir/eu.miln.beyond.mas.pkg/Payload/APPNAME.app/Contents/Frameworks/FRAMEWORK.framework/Versions/A: satisfies its Designated Requirement test-requirement: code failed to satisfy specified code requirement(s) . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information.

The solution is to re-codesign the application bundle making sure to use a Mac App Store application certificate.

Codesign

Use the codesign -d -vvvv to check the signing certificate is correct.

If you have a complex signed application with mixed certificates or non-Mac App Store certificates, you can use the codesign flag deep to recursively resign the entire bundle:

codesign --force -o library -s '3rd Party Mac Developer Application: Your Organisation (000AAA000A)' --keychain '/absolute/path/to/mac-app-store.keychain' --preserve-metadata=identifier,entitlements,flags --deep '/absolute/path/to/APPLICATION.app'

Note the --preserve-metadata=identifier,entitlements,flags options. These are important to avoid overwriting or changing the associated entitlements and bundle identifiers.

Ideally, the deep flag should not be used but it can be useful to fix problems.