A signing identity could not be found

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A signing identity could not be found

Hi,

I've already spent 6 hours about this problem.
but I can't find the solution.

When I look in the Organizer, in the Provisionning Profile section, my provisionning profile has an alert and this message :

"A signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain"

The fact is following.

I worked fine with my new Mac Mini (Mac OS 10.5.6).
And I have another Mac Mini.
But it's Mac OS is 10.4.4, so it can't upgrade Mac OS 10.5.*.
I purchased Mac OS 10.5.4 Family Pack and installed.

To develop iPhone application with old Mac, I exported the private key from new Mac and imported it into old Mac. (double-click in Finder)
In keychain, a pair of certificate and private key is maded.

I downloaded original Provisioning Profiles in Provisioning section of Program Portal and drag into Xcode organizer.

But, in provisioning section of organizer, alert message is displayed as following.
"A signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain"

So, I tried to down and install certificates from Program Portal.
Certificates section/Development tab/WWDR Intermediate Certificate
Certificates section/Development tab/developer_identity.cer
Certificates section/Distribution tab/WWDR Intermediate Certificate
Certificates section/Distribution tab/distribution_identity

But however, it is still in the same state.

Does anybody can help me?

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Dec 25, 2008 1:37 AM

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Answer 1

wasakwasak Author

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Dec 28, 2008 6:37 PM in response to wasakwasak

In Mac OS Family packt, can't test iPhone project in device?
Does anybody know it?

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Answer 2

Jan 17, 2009 6:42 PM in response to wasakwasak

I'm having the exact same problem here.
"A signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain"

Anybody have a suggestion on this?

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Answer 3

Jan 29, 2009 6:59 AM in response to wasakwasak

I had the same issue and finally solved it. One problem was that my Apple Developer ID Organization name was different than the one used to set up the iPhone developer account. I changed that, and then recreated the Keychain certificate using the name that matched the Organization ID in both places (for the Distribution certificate). This may or may not have been the issue as at first it still gave the error.

I then closed and restarted Xcode, and then it worked. Apparently Xcode was holding on to an earlier certificate created, which definitely had the wrong Organization name (it did not match either the Apple Developer or the iPhone program Organization name). Therefore, if Xcode gets this error once, its not reloading or checking the keychain for a new certificate.

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Jan 29, 2009 8:48 PM in response to cisaacson

Had the same problem. Restarting XCode fixed it without changing anything else.

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Answer 5

BJL_Melb

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Jan 31, 2009 3:12 AM in response to Josh Price

Same, restart of XCode and problem has cleared (sdk 2.2.1)

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May 28, 2009 9:18 PM in response to wasakwasak

I notice this months-old question hasn't been answered.

I'm completely stuck on this too. I can't move my development apps to my phone on my laptop.

It works fine on my desktop computer.

Both have the EXACT SAME VERSIONS of MacOSX, and the EXACT SAME VERSIONS of XCODE.

But on the laptop, I get the message "A SIGNING IDENTITY MATCHING THIS PROFILE CANNOT BE FOUND ON YOUR KEYCHAIN"

I've probably wasted 5 hours trying to fix this over the past few weeks.

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Answer 7

K T

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May 28, 2009 10:10 PM in response to AstroBetty

AstroBetty wrote:
I notice this months-old question hasn't been answered.

This note from Apple, originally dated 2008-11-12, is now dated 2009-05-26 with 'minor editorial changes' - perhaps it will help:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/qa/qa2008/qa1618.html

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