Xcode Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1 : errSecInternalComponent

Question

I am trying to add new provisioning profile to my Xcode, to test an app on the device. Here are the steps I followed:

1. Deleted all certificates and provisioning profiles

2. Create/Add IOS Dev Certificate

3. Add My IOS Device Online

4. Create IOS Provisioning Profile

5. Add IOS Provisioning Profile

6. Clean App

7. Build Then Run App

8. Set Codesigning nd Provisioning Profile In Build Settings

9. Lots of Googling > to no successes

Here is the error I get:

CSSM_SignData returned: 800108E6
/Users/alexpelletier/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MyExpense-efnqzvoqwngzcmazaotyalepiice/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/MyExpense.app:     errSecInternalComponent
Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1

Answer 1

Open Keychain Access, then in the File menu select Lock All Keychains.

Then go back to Xcode and clean and rebuild. It will prompt you for your password again to unlock the keychain.

After this, assuming you have no other compile issues, it will succeed!

Answer 2

It seems like a bug in the code signing mechanism, restarting your mac should solve the problem

Answer 3

This occurs when the login keychain is locked. To unlock the login keychain, run:

security unlock-keychain login.keychain

Then try the build or code-signing operation again. The error code in question is described in Apple's docs as an internal error, so it's entirely possible this occurs in other cases too.

Answer 4

Had the same issue on High Sierra/Xcode 9.4.1, all attempts to sign ended in errSecInternalComponent

1. • Go to Keychain Access
   • Go to the login keychain
   • Select the category "My Certificates"
   • Find the certificate you're signing with and expand it to see the key.
   • Double click the key
   • Go to the "Access control" tab.
   • Update key access control to "Allow all applications to access this item"

Alternatively:

run codesign command on mac terminal and "Always allow" /usr/bin/codesign access to key

2. If trying to sign from ssh/CI you also need to run

   security unlock-keychain login.keychain
   

   before trying to sign app bundle

Answer 5

I have met the same problem, I restart my macOS,and it works.

In China,we have a saying between developers:

Little problems,just restart.Big problems,should reinstall.

Sometimes,the above saying will greatly help you!

Answer 6

In case it helps someone else, I encountered an errSecInternalComponent error with codesign because I was running it over an ssh session to my macOS machine. Running the same command from a terminal window on the macOS machine itself worked.

Presumably this is because codesign needs access to the private key from the login keychain.

Running security unlock-keychain login.keychain (as explained by cbracken's answer) from the same session also should work.

Answer 7

If trying to sign from ssh run command:

security unlock-keychain login.keychain

before trying to sign app bundle

or from UI

Update key access control to "Allow all applications to access this item"

Thx to @Equilibrium and @Jon McClung

Answer 8

I had the same issue Found out the problem is with code signing the app.

Opened the developer account and accepted the updated agreement and it worked.  

Answer 9

I ran security unlock-keychain login.keychain and my login password didn't work. So I rebooted, and then just ran Xcode again and it worked. Running the command works as well. Strange issue.

Answer 10

Just try it once using mac terminal but not from ssh session

security unlock-keychain login.keychain

And choose always allow in the prompted dialog. And then you could xcodebuild in the remote session.

Answer 11

As pointed out by @Equilibrium in one of the comments, if you are in command line env. like Jenkins(my case), you might need to pass the password to the security-unlock command mentioned in the solutions.

So instead of using,

security unlock-keychain login.keychain

use:

security unlock-keychain -p <login-keychain-password> <path-to-login-keychain>

where path-to-login keychain can be $HOME/Library/Keychains/login.keychain(my case) or simply login.keychain

Answer 12

for anyone that encountered this issue from jenkins and ssh:

high possibility that you have not granted access to the private key in keychain, i tried but not sure why all of these are not working:

1. security import .p12 file with -A or -T /usr/bin/codesign
2. security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,apple:,codesign: -s -k #{password} #{keychainPath}
3. change all provisioning profile to [UUID].mobileprovision and copy them to '~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles' on jenkins server
4. clean derived data and reboot jenkins server
5. make sure default keychain is login keychain and unlocked it.

finally resolved by:

1.ssh [user]@[jenkinsServerIP] -L 5900:localhost:5900, log into jenkins server

2.open 'vnc://localhost'

this will launch a remote screen, if your jenkins server allow this...

then open keychain.app to grant access of /usr/bin/codesign to the private key

good luck

Answer 13

Right clicking on the private key associated with the codesigning cert in the keychain, and then clicking on 'allow all applications' instead of relying on a prompt fixed it for me, since the build was happening via ssh.

Answer 14

I had to:

1) delete the certificate associated to the project

2) Back to the Xcode and revoke the app certificate

3) The Xcode require a new certificate

4) Lock all KeyChain

5) Clean the project

6) Rebuild

That's it. Hope it helps to anyone.