Notary service down again?

When the notary service actually goes down, DevForums tends to light up with complaints. I suspect that this issue in something specific to your product.

Looking at your older thread, it shows that notary responded, but with an error complaining about the format of your submission. Is that case again now?

If so, please post your notary log again and I’ll see what I can figured out.

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This is the notary log and it still contains the same critical validation errors claiming it has no signed executables or bundles. However if I skip notarization and just install it using installer -verboseR -pkg ConcealDistribution.pkg -target / it works just fine and everything installs as expected.

As I mentioned in the older thread I have not changed the structure or format of this PKG and this has been working for months up until a few weeks ago when it suddenly started failing.

{
  "logFormatVersion": 1,
  "jobId": "14cc46bd-10d5-4e9c-9ad6-86c06baad6b2",
  "status": "Invalid",
  "statusSummary": "Archive contains critical validation errors",
  "statusCode": 4000,
  "archiveFilename": "ConcealDistribution.pkg",
  "uploadDate": "2025-11-05T21:53:19.782Z",
  "sha256": "48ba80a95c818ae81cadcca07afed1ef4d0d8c120a87622b200dc9935964ee26",
  "ticketContents": null,
  "issues": [
    {
      "severity": "error",
      "code": null,
      "path": "ConcealDistribution.pkg",
      "message": "Package ConcealDistribution.pkg has no signed executables or bundles. No tickets can be generated.",
      "docUrl": null,
      "architecture": null
    },
    {
      "severity": "warning",
      "code": null,
      "path": "ConcealDistribution.pkg",
      "message": "The contents of the package at ConcealDistribution.pkg could not be extracted.",
      "docUrl": null,
      "architecture": null
    }
  ]
}

As a reminder so you don't have to flip back to the old thread this is the structure of my Distribution PKG when I perform a pkgutil --expand.

	ConcealDistribution
		├── Distribution
		├── ConcealConnect.pkg
		├── ConcealBrowse.pkg
		└── ConcealUpdate.pkg