Xcode crashes when distributing product for App Store Connect

App Store Distribution & Marketing App Store Connect
Nickkk OP
Created Dec ’20
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After building the Product Archive, the Organizer window opens, I click Distribute App. Next. Next. Next. Next. Crash. The crash happens before I'm able to export anything, so I cannot even use the Application Loader. The last message above the indeterminate progress indicator I can read before it crashes is "Packaging MyApp ...".

It would be really nice if an Apple engineer could help sort this out, because I already contacted the App Store Connect support and they told me that the only way I can get help is by writing on this forum, searching the Xcode documentation, or using one of the 2 free TSIs I get each year (which I have already used).

Stacktrace (I tried to paste the whole crash report, but I get an error that the message is too long and that I should click on the icon to attach a file instead, but I don't see such an icon):

Code Block 
Process:               Xcode [834]
Path:                  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
Identifier:            com.apple.dt.Xcode
Version:               12.2 (17535)
Build Info:            IDEFrameworks-17535000000000000~23 (12B45b)
App Item ID:           497799835
App External ID:       838360538
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Xcode [834]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2020-12-07 17:22:11.231 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 11.0.1 (20B29)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     3.0 (14Y908)
Anonymous UUID:        7A3F67B1-D68A-4230-40B2-B7EE13B51792
Sleep/Wake UUID:       4913FE52-7DB5-45E0-9396-EFBA2ADD0B5C
Time Awake Since Boot: 47000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       5900 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread:        17  Dispatch queue: ConcurrentQueue: -[IDEDistributionPackagingStepViewController viewDidInstall]_block_invoke
Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Application Specific Information:
Possibly stale failure hints from 2020-12-07 16:21:03 +0000:
  0: Calling block provided by:
 
  0   DVTDispatchAsync (in DVTFoundation)
  1   56-[IDEArchiveProductSource updateArchivesWithCompletion:]_block_invoke_2 (in IDEProducts)
  2   DVT_CALLING_CLIENT_BLOCK (in DVTFoundation)
  3   DVTDispatchAsync_block_invoke (in DVTFoundation)
  4   _dispatch_call_block_and_release (in libdispatch.dylib)
  5   _dispatch_client_callout (in libdispatch.dylib)
  6   _dispatch_continuation_pop (in libdispatch.dylib)
  7   _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke (in libdispatch.dylib)
  8   _dispatch_root_queue_drain (in libdispatch.dylib)
  9   _dispatch_worker_thread2 (in libdispatch.dylib)
 10   _pthread_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)
 11   start_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)
 
 
 
 
ProductBuildVersion: 12B45b
ASSERTION FAILURE in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/DVTFrameworks/DVTFrameworks-17518/DVTFoundation/FilePaths/DVTFilePath.m:912
Details:  url should be an instance inheriting from NSURL, but it is nil
Object:   <DVTFilePath>
Method:   +filePathForFileURL:
Thread:   <NSThread: 0x7fa6c43458e0>{number = 4468, name = (null)}
Open FDs: 115/7168
Hints:   
  0: Calling block provided by:
 
  0   DVTDispatchAsync (in DVTFoundation)
  1   DVTAsyncPerformBlock (in DVTFoundation)
  2   -[IDEDistributionPackagingStepViewController viewDidInstall] (in IDEKit)
  3   -[DVTViewController _viewDidInstall] (in DVTViewControllerKit)
  4   -[_DVTViewController_ViewLifecycleInterpositions viewDidMoveToWindow] (in DVTViewControllerKit)
  5   -[NSView _setWindow:] (in AppKit)
  6   -[NSView addSubview:] (in AppKit)
  7   -[NSView setSubviews:] (in AppKit)
  8   -[DVTBorderedView setContentView:] (in DVTUserInterfaceKit)
  9   -[IDEDistributionAssistantWindowController setDistributionStepViewController:] (in IDEKit)
 10   -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObservingPrivate) _changeValueForKeys:count:maybeOldValuesDict:maybeNewValuesDict:usingBlock:] (in Foundation)
 11   -[NSObject(NSKeyValueObservingPrivate) _changeValueForKey:key:key:usingBlock:] (in Foundation)
 12   _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify (in Foundation)
 13   -[IDEDistributionAssistantWindowController next:] (in IDEKit)
 14   79-[IDEDistributionAutomaticSigningAssetsStepViewController _locateSigningAssets]_block_invoke_2 (in IDEKit)
 15   DVT_CALLING_CLIENT_BLOCK (in DVTFoundation)
 16   _DVTAsyncPerformBlockOnMainRunLoop_block_invoke (in DVTFoundation)
 17   CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK (in CoreFoundation)
 18   CFRunLoopDoBlocks (in CoreFoundation)
 19   CFRunLoopRun (in CoreFoundation)
 20   CFRunLoopRunSpecific (in CoreFoundation)
 21   RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (in HIToolbox)
 22   ReceiveNextEventCommon (in HIToolbox)
 23   _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter (in HIToolbox)
 24   _DPSNextEvent (in AppKit)
 25   -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in AppKit)
 26   -[DVTApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (in DVTKit)
 27   -[NSApplication run] (in AppKit)
 28   NSApplicationMain (in AppKit)
 29   start (in libdyld.dylib)
 
 
 
Backtrace:
  0   -[IDEAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:fileName:lineNumber:assertionSignature:messageFormat:arguments:] (in IDEKit)
  1   _DVTAssertionHandler (in DVTFoundation)
  2   _DVTAssertionFailureHandler (in DVTFoundation)
  3   +[DVTFilePath filePathForFileURL:] (in DVTFoundation)
  4   -[IDEDistributionSymbolsStep runWithError:] (in IDEFoundation)
  5   -[IDEDistributionProcessingPipeline process:] (in IDEFoundation)
  6   -[IDEDistributionPackagingStepViewController _runPipeline] (in IDEKit)
  7   60-[IDEDistributionPackagingStepViewController viewDidInstall]_block_invoke_2 (in IDEKit)
  8   DVT_CALLING_CLIENT_BLOCK (in DVTFoundation)
  9   DVTDispatchAsync_block_invoke (in DVTFoundation)
 10   _dispatch_call_block_and_release (in libdispatch.dylib)
 11   _dispatch_client_callout (in libdispatch.dylib)
 12   _dispatch_continuation_pop (in libdispatch.dylib)
 13   _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke (in libdispatch.dylib)
 14   _dispatch_root_queue_drain (in libdispatch.dylib)
 15   _dispatch_worker_thread2 (in libdispatch.dylib)
 16   _pthread_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)
 17   start_wqthread (in libsystem_pthread.dylib)
 
abort() called
Application Specific Signatures:
(url) != nil
...

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Claude31 OP
Dec ’20

ProductBuildVersion: 12B45b
ASSERTION FAILURE in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/DVTFrameworks/DVTFrameworks-17518/DVTFoundation/FilePaths/DVTFilePath.m:912
Details: url should be an instance inheriting from NSURL, but it is nil

Try an option clean build folder, in case you have a build issue.

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Nickkk OP
Dec ’20
Thanks for your help, but cleaning the build folder didn't help. I already recreated the Archive several times, without success.
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gregvideovillage OP
Dec ’20
Same issue here! Quite a ridiculous bug.

The very silly, no-good fix is to uncheck "Upload debug symbols..." when going through the upload flow, but no one really wants to do that!!!
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Nickkk OP
Dec ’20
Thanks for sharing this workaround. I hope that we won't have to rely on this for too long.
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Shastr OP
Dec ’20
Had the same issue, try clear ALL your local stored provisions and manually add required again in xcode
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Bruji OP
Dec ’20
Thank you GregVideoVillage. Unchecking "Upload debug symbols..." worked!! I mean it's abad fix, I like getting the crash reports already symbolicated, but at least I can get updates in the App Store for Big Sur. I had downloaded older version of Xcode and actually managed to fix the bug by using Xcode 11 command line tools in a script. But when uploading to the store from within Xcode it ignores the set version and uses the latest. Still present in Xcode 12.3.

In a follow up, I have to restart Xcode between uploads as won't find a file on the second try. The file is always the quicklook generator and spotlight MD Importer. As I think it might be what was giving the original bug. It finds it once, but not twice and hence why the URL was empty and the crash that follows.
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MyMattes OP
Jan ’21
"+1", unchecking debug symbols upload helps. Apple, your QA sucks...



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Wiz OP
Jan ’21
Same issue here. I tried reporting it (FB8951560) but it was marked as "unable to diagnose". Perhaps if you tried to report it as well with the info you have, it might help them...
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Etresoft OP
Feb ’21
I'm seeing the same problem. I had been using Catalina to do all of my official builds, but for various reasons I wanted to try it with Big Sur this time. I had noticed problems when exporting Developer ID builds. Every other export would fail on my quick look plug in. I guess I have to re-write my quicklook plugins, eh?
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MyMattes OP
Apr ’21
4 months and one Xcode version (12.4) later, and still no fix...
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