Code 173 no longer triggers receipt generation

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NSBundle *mainBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle]; 
NSURL *receiptURL = [mainBundle URLForResource: @"receipt" withExtension: @""];
receiptData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: receiptURL options: NSDataReadingMappedAlways error: &theError];

This appears to be randomly happening again. Curious if anyone else has been experiencing this problem lately. Found the following related logs in the Console:

default    15:39:49.352585-1000    storeuid    <StoreKitClient: 0x7f8898d2d820>: Using active account. Sandbox: 1, receipt exists: NO, receipt is stub: NO
default    15:39:49.354734-1000    commerce    storeuid[552] starting request app-receipt-create
default    15:39:49.455240-1000    commerce    <CKStoreRequest: 0x7f94a1f64e10> https://p100-sandbox.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/createAppReceipt
default    15:39:49.877166-1000    commerce    StoreSession: StatusCode: 200; <private>; Environment: SB-MR; URL: https://p100-sandbox.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/createAppReceipt
error    15:39:49.879812-1000    storeuid    <ReceiptRefreshRequest: 0x7f889a1616e0>: No receipt data in response
error    15:39:49.879883-1000    storeuid    <ReceiptRefreshRequest: 0x7f889a1616e0>: Error fetching receipt for X - Error Domain=com.apple.commerce.client Code=500 "(null)"
default    15:39:49.880675-1000    storelegacy    StoreLegacy: Failed to renew receipt for application at path X : 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.commerce.client error 500.)'
error    15:39:49.930396-1000    diagnostics_agent    Invalid receipt [0 bytes]

Apple broke this. All developers have the same problem. It's probably not a bug in XCode, more likely would be macOS 12.0.1 Monterey or the App Store. You won't be able to build your app with receipt validation until they fix this - probably in the next update of Monterey.

Again this is no longer working for me. Am I alone with this problem or can anyone else confirm this?

I updated to the release candidates of Monterey 12.1 and Xcode 13.2 and the problem persists. One would think this should be a top priority issue.

Dear @eskimo, could you, please, provide us any support for this issue?

I've been doing the same process for the same app for 9 years, same build, sandbox in-app, etc, etc. Now, without changing anything, I am completely blocked with the error described in this thread. I've tried just everything possible, from new certificates, cancelling and recreating all certificates, etc, etc. But nothing, the app closes during startup, log shows:

• Error fetching receipt for xxxx - Error Domain=com.apple.commerce.client Code=500 “(null)”
• ‘The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.commerce.client error 500.)’

Then the nightmare message App is damaged ... Instead of relaunching the app asking for the sandbox account login as have always happened.

On this thread and a few others, you can see that there are many developers facing the same situation without any alternatives.

Thanks in advance, Fernando

I'm seeing this again now on macOS 12.3.1. After exit(173), macOS brings up the system dialog for app store credentials, then fails with the message "the application is damaged and needs to be redownloaded from the AppStore" for my Xcode builds, and also for my archived TestFlight builds. Until recently, it would fetch the _MASReceipt automatically without a dialog. Does anyone know what might have changed? Whether this is something I broke? Something on Apple's end? Something in my system? Logging in and out of the app store, rebooting, have no effect.

Is there anything that we can do on our end? I'm facing the same problem.

I'm not prompted for a sandbox user anymore. Somehow the system has remembered the sandbox user. Is there a way to remove the sandbox user-data? Maybe that will help.

Until then: the 500 error is clearly something at the App Store end that is broken. You would think that Apple has monitoring in place on errors happening on their services...

+1 ... Building my app with macOS 12.3.1 (M1) and Xcode 13.3.1, and no receipt is retrieved after exiting with 173. Tried App Store log out / log in (sandbox and regular account) as well as reboot to no avail.

This issue started for me today (5/13/22) IMMEDIATELY after Mac Software Update installed Xcode Command Line Tools 13.4. After that ANY MacOS App running in Xcode under does an Exit(173) due to NOT finding any App Store Receipts. I get this message:

“x” is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete “x” and download it again from the App Store.

I am not sure why it installed 13.4 before Xcode 13.4 is released but that is what update automatically installed. I'm on MacOS 12.3.1 (M1) and running Xcode 13.3.1.

I tried rolling back to the 13.3.1 Command line tools but that didn't fix anything.

Only way I can run and develop my mac apps now is to comment out the Receipt check.

Bug report filed - FB10017618

It's working again now.

I still wished this was mentioned on https://developer.apple.com/system-status/ whenever it goes down.

Not working again. No change to macOS version nor Xcode version. Just back to these console messages:

error	11:59:51.470396-0700	storeuid	<ReceiptRefreshRequest: 0x1581c3ee0>: Error fetching receipt for com.moremobilesoftware.divelogdt - Error Domain=com.apple.commerce.server Code=1008 "(null)"
default	11:59:51.471332-0700	storelegacy	StoreLegacy: Failed to renew receipt for application at path /Users/jXXXXXXX/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/<Product>/Build/Products/Debug/DiveLogDT.app : 'The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.commerce.server error 1008.)'

Anyone else seeing it go back and forth and back and forth like this?