I haven't been able to find a definition for this error in relation to codesigning. I'm really quite stumped as of what to do.
The error occurs when attempting to execute this command line:
codesign -s "Developer ID Application: Name (ID)" -fv --deep Application.app/
System:
XCode 6.2 on Yosemite 10.10.3
I've reinstalled XCode, still without any luck. This is for a desktop application.
Apologies if this is a silly question!
A solution I found on the Apple forum worked for me: first, run the following command to find your identity's hex ID:
$ security find-identity -v
1) A048017A43F8C9C993128B0101B81CD07049601E "lldb_codesign"
...
Then you can use that hex identifier to sign:
codesign -s A048017A43F8C9C993128B0101B81CD07049601E /usr/local/bin/gdb
Some other tips I came across while debugging this:
- You have to give the full path to the binary (
/usr/local/bin/gdb
, not just gdb
). It won't look on the PATH, I assume for security reasons.
- You have to run the codesign as root if the directory your binary is in is not user-owned.
passing --timestamp=none
seems to make the crash go away.
I've encountered this in Xcode 8.3.2 when I inadvertently wound up with duplicates of my signing certificates. @kristina's answer gave me the clue; $ security find-identity -v
showed me two entries with identical hashes. I fixed it by deleting the first certificate in the list with that hash, via:
$ sudo security delete-certificate -Z <SHA hash>