It's working again this morning. It isn't asking for my user ID and password. I'm going to make a copy of the receipt so if this stops working again as it has in the past I will be able to include it in my project as a build phase.
Feedback ID: FB10211910 this time. Also FB10023318 and FB9760796.
I tried to log on to the App Store to make sure that I was logged on as my iTunes test user. After two-factor authentication I entered my iTunes test user Id and password. App Store posts an alert saying that my iTunes test user has not yet been used with the App Store (BS). The alert has two buttons: "cancel "and "review" If I hit the "review" button the page displays text saying "We've run in to a problem, try again later". A problem? No **** Apple. A problem with XCode and App Store that has been broken on and off for about FIVE YEARS.
And yes, I did file a bug Report AGAIN.
This morning I ran a project. It was fine. Then this afternoon and I got the exit 173 bug AGAIN:
datetime appname[3785:75448] Failed to fetch the MacAppStore receipt.
Alert:
“appname” is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete “appname” and download it again from the App Store.
Seriously this has been screwed up on and off for YEARS. I can't believe that Apple hasn't gotten this critical bug fixed and doesn't acknowledge it or provide a work-around. I guess I'll have to file a bug report again for the nth time but I don't know why since it never helped in the past. AAARRRGGG!
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I was able to fix most of this by deleting the Constraints, checking "Show Title Bar", "Hide Title Text" and "Transparent Title Bar" in the Panel attributes and re adding constraints. There are still some weird things going on - for example in the Window's attributes in the right pane its type is NSPanel but in the pane on the left, Interface Builder thinks it's an NSWindow. Maybe the file is corrupted. Apple is now almost requiring Constraints and or resizing sub-views. This is a case of severe over-kill. Lots of complexity where is's not generally needed.
This is fixed in macOS 12.2. The first time I built and ran my app it exited. But when I launched it again there was a test receipt in the app bundle. It didn't ask for my test user ID and password like it used to. I was logged on to the App Store with these so it looks like it will add the receipt without asking for these credentials.
The many developers that have reported this to Bug Reporter have had their reports updated with "Resolution: Potential fix identified - In macOS 12.2" "Potential" doesn't sound very reassuring. If anyone is using the beta of 12.2 it would be interesting to see if it works.
Today I upgraded to XCode 13.2.1. THIS PROBLEM IS NOT FIXED. It seems likely that this is a problem with the server at the App
Store.
I upgraded to macOS 12.1. This does not include a new version of App Store and it DOES NOT FIX THE EXIT 173 BUG.
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I upgraded to macOS 12.1. This does not include a new version of App Store and it DOES NOT FIX THE EXIT 173 BUG.
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This is still broken TWO YEARS LATER.
I got it - putting a file named "PkgInfo" with the text "BNDLhbwr" in my appname.help/Contents folder turns the .help folder into a package. This is interesting but it doesn't fix the no help book bug. The help Book will only be displayed if the app bundle is in the Applications folder. Also as far as I can tell this is an undocumented "feature" of macOS Monterey 12.0.1.
Is a Pkginfo file just a file with the ".Pkginfo" file extension? Is this documented anywhere?
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Apple broke this and everyone is having the same problem. There are many threads about this.
