Xamarin Ios build hangs on signing

Question

We build ios using xamarin, the build hangs on signing and didn't throw any exception about 2.5 hours

Sign and provision profile is good. What could be?

        Target _CodesignAppBundle:
            Codesign Task
              CodesignAllocate: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoo              Entitlements: obj/iPhone/Release/Entitlements.xcent
              Resource: bin/iPhone/Release/App.app
              ResourceRules: <null>
              SigningKey: ECFF24B11990B9BXXXXXXX194A29B83E87776A7B
              ExtraArgs: <null>
            Tool /usr/bin/codesign execution started with arguments: -v --force --sign ECFF24B11990B9BXXXXXXX194A29B83E87776A7B --entitlements /Users/admin/buildAgent_2/temp/buildTmp/SOURCE/App/obj/iPhone/Release/Entitlements.xcent /Users/admin/buildAgent_2/temp/buildTmp/SOURCE/App/bin/iPhone/Release/App.app 

Answer 1

Maybe it requires to unlock the keychain access : a popup waiting for the keychain password is prompted on your server, but you don't see it.

I had to deal with this kind of problem when configuring a Xamarin app on Jenkins CI. If so, just unlock the keychain with a bash script :

KEYCHAIN=/Users/xxx/Keychains/xxx.keychain
security -v unlock-keychain -p mypassword $KEYCHAIN