Error 0xE800003A Verifying Application Missing Entitlement

gregor1111 · 09-21-2008, 05:54 AM

Hi all,

I am soooo pretty stuck with this I am getting crazy. I always get this 0xE800003A Error when I try to install my distribution build on my IPod Touch (Firmware 2.1) device. I spend nearly 20 hours on this. Recreated all certificates, provisioning profiles a couple of times, studied Apple documentation like 10 times. I also tried fixed and wildcard bundle ID's Cleaned the build directory.....Renamed my ipod and recreated everything from the scratch.... deleted the provisioning profiles on my ipod...

I am pretty sure all my settings for the project and the target are ok but I am still getting the above error.

The only difference of my settings compared to the documentation is this:

In the Apple distributing multiple applications documentation it says:

"5.Confirm that both the Private Key that corresponds to your iPhone Distribution Certificate AND the
public iPhone Distribution Certificate are located in the Keys category of the Keychain application."

In my keychain application only my private distrubution key is showing up in the keys section. The distributing certificate is showing up in the certificate section. Might that be my problem and how do I fix this? I already erased the certificate and created a new one but still id does not show up together with the private key in the keys section.

Maybe this is not the problem at all but I am so stuck I have no idea what else to try and it is very frustrating right now...

Any help and advice is highly appreciated,

Gregor

scottiphone · 09-21-2008, 11:34 AM

If this is an App Store distribution build then it won't install on your device.

If this is for Ad Hoc distribution then make sure you have entitlements and have followed those specific instructions.

If it's a development build then that's a different issue.

Print out the whole document and go step by step.

StatCoder · 09-21-2008, 05:20 PM

When you request the certificate from your Mac it generates the keys in your login keychain. Make sure they are there and were generated when you did the certificate request. Also, naming of the Bundle ID is important. If you do a wildcard app then your Bundle ID should be someting like com.[yourcompany].[anyname]

gregor1111 · 09-22-2008, 05:28 AM

Thank you scottiphone and statbuilder. I think I found my mistake (a really stupid one).

I always thought I have to click "build and go" if I want to create the final product for distribution. I did not check the instructions carefully enough (In the instructions it says just click on "build". I was just so used to clicking on "build an go" during development, that I did not realize the possibility of "just" building something fo another purpose :--)

I hope this post might help if someone makes the same mistake. My build protokoll now shows my embedded mobile provision file and that the distribution build has been signed with my distribution certificate.

I think I am ready to go now....

Thank you again for all your help!

Gregor

mmeshref · 10-22-2008, 09:11 PM

I am facing the same issue, how did you solve it?

scottiphone · 10-28-2008, 12:44 PM

Read the full thread. Download the pdf document from the portal and follow it step by step. You'll want to restart xcode after you've downloaded your provisions.
If this is for distribution just hit the Build button, not the build and go button.

Moonjump · 01-16-2009, 02:56 PM

I've been stuck with the 0xE80003A bug for a week now. I've followed all the advice I can find on the internet, which helped. Before the error appeared straight after the build. Now it happens 5 seconds later.

The only thing I can find wrong is from the Apple Developer Connection - How To is in the Building and Installing your Development Application section, step 4. It says to "Select your Development Provisioning Profile from the ‘Code Signing Provisioning Profile’ setting", but that line does not appear in my Project Info, so I cannot do it.

Any ideas?

Sraet · 01-21-2009, 11:29 PM

Hey Moonjump I am having the exact same problem, just tried setting all of this up today and I for the life of me can not figure out what I am doing wrong. I even saw a post where the Indentifier was mentioned and set it up to match the things made through the portal and that didnt help either. I wonder if something was recently changed and the steps were not updated? This is for Development, not Distribution.

Sraet · 01-22-2009, 12:12 AM

Wow, Turned out this final step appears to be no longer needed. xCode will NOT appear to deploy the profiles automatically any more so you still need to do that through the organizer. But I simply could not get the Hello World app to run on my 2.2 iPhone with the 2.2 SDK. I went and just made a new Navigation project, Changed the Any iPhone OS line to be my iPhone developer entry. Then went and changed the Identifier to match my App ID that I made through the portal, redeployed, got the message that I needed to add a profile, added in the profile I had already made to my iPhone again ( I deleted it when I made the new app ) and the second deploy worked

Hope this helps. I did not have to redo anything, I just could not get the Hello World sample to work on the iPhone, a new project worked fine.

Moonjump · 01-22-2009, 05:56 AM

I've solved my problem now.

I hadn't been following the PDF mentioned by scottiphone, I had been using the How To notes alongside each step. They say the same things, but it turns out they don't include the step for setting up your iPhone for development.

Still got the error after going through the PDF very slowly (after reinstalling Xcode and getting rid of the original certificates), but it was just a case of following the advice all over the net to change the identifier (changed it in the Properties tab of the Target Info).

CarlosT · 01-22-2009, 07:29 AM

I had this problem yesterday, I went to the build menu and clear.., then rebuild and it might work. Worked for me anyway!

tigermain · 02-23-2009, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarlosT

I had this problem yesterday, I went to the build menu and clear.., then rebuild and it might work. Worked for me anyway!

Mine installed to device but wont remote debug (probably a ppc issue) then next time I tried I got the above error.

It was just a matter of Build Menu, Clean All

Sorted it, thanks CarlosT

kgw.iphone · 03-12-2009, 11:00 AM

yes - build clean all - solved 0xE800003A install error

yes - the signing, cert., provisioning steps are complex and error prone -- it took me about a day -- since my app ID expired 3/11 -- had to redo all steps and then had to solve two install errors -- the last being 0xE800003A -- back to where I was on 3/10........ all is working......

good luck all,
Kevin