[Master Task] Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

[srijak]

Please see #21303 to understand why you're running into this

(Edited by @hramos - the original issue text has been replaced with a description of the problem)

Description

This issue describes a class of failures where the iOS build fails with the following output:

Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

This error message is a red herring as the problem is not actually caused by a missing :CFBundleIdentifier entry. What this output means is that your iOS project could not be built successfully.

If you are encountering this issue, please try the following:

1. Upgrade to the latest React Native release.
2. Upgrade to the latest Xcode version.
3. Read through the Getting Started guide if you haven't in a while, and make sure your development environment is up to date.
4. Try building your project again.

If none of these resolve your issue, please read through this thread to learn about what has worked for others. Please refrain from adding "me too" comments unless you have material information that contributes to others' solutions.

[hramos]

I have not yet been able to reproduce this, on 0.45, macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Xcode 8.3.3. I have yarn installed, which means the CLI will use it instead of npm-cli, though I don't see any boost package in my node_modules/. I am able to launch the app on iOS, though I get a RedBox due to #14246.

[WhoJave]

@srijak I also come across this error , Im trying your solution now
it's OK now, tkx :)

[kyle-ssg]

Thanks for the fix @srijak, I was able to reproduce this too since upgrading from 44 to 0.45, even after clearing node_modules and installing via yarn or npm.

[haseebyf]

+1 same here!

Update: downloaded and replaced boost_1_63_0.tar.gz in the .rncache folder. It seem to fix the problem for me.

[mhorowitz]

I just added code in the above rev to improve the logging around this failure. If you see it again, please post the output so we can try to narrow down what's going on here.

[pampang]

I thought I've figured out how to fix this problem.
It turns out that the node_modules/react-native/ios-install-third-party.sh did not run out right (Maybe because the network).

download files list:
https://github.com/google/glog/archive/v0.3.4.tar.gz 
https://github.com/google/double-conversion/archive/v1.1.5.tar.gz
https://github.com/react-native-community/boost-for-react-native/releases/download/v1.63.0-0/boost_1_63_0.tar.gz
https://github.com/facebook/folly/archive/v2016.09.26.00.tar.gz

So, I did the following steps:

0. download the files needed inside the .sh, put it in the ~/.rncache/.
1. copy the downloaded files into node_modules/react-native/third-party/, ran tar -zxf *** to each file.
2. build again, and worked for me.

[barbatus]

I had this issue too, but it disappeared once I used react-native-git-upgrade for the upgrade.

[iineva]

Temporary Solution

Download boost_1_63_0.tar.gz to ~/.rncache/, replace if exist.

[PaulAndreRada]

After trying absolutely everything in this tread and this one https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/7308 I still kept getting the same issue on:
react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.45.1

My build process would just error out and stop, giving me:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following commands produced analyzer issues:
	Analyze /Users/<MASKED>/node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/YGNodeList.c
	Analyze /Users/<MASKED>/node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/Yoga.c

(2 commands with analyzer issues)

The following build commands failed:
	CompileC /Users/<MASKED>/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Build/Intermediates/React.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/third-party.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/Bits.o /Users/<MASKED>/node_modules/react-native/third-party/folly-2016.09.26.00/folly/Bits.cpp normal x86_64 c++ com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler
(1 failure)

Installing build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/<MASKED>.app
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=2):
Failed to install the requested application
An application bundle was not found at the provided path.
Provide a valid path to the desired application bundle.
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

Command failed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:CFBundleIdentifier build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/Mindchat.app/Info.plist
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

I then deleted the ios/ and android/ folders and did react-native eject then tried react-native-git-upgrade for the thousand time, and it worked!

[folivi]

Fixed by removing everything from ~/.rncache/

[m-bigaignon]

The fix proposed by @folivi above worked perfectly for me.

For the record, I stumbled upon this issue today when creating a brand new project with react-native init
react-native : 0.46.1
react-native-cli : 2.0.1

Edit : It would appear that the above fix works on a project using react-native@0.46.1, but not with react-native@0.45.0.

[yuriy-ulantsev]

I had this issue too, but it disappeared once I removing everything from ~/.rncache/ and used command react-native-git-upgrade

[codler]

Reinstall node_modules rm -rf node_modules && yarn

[xareelee]

Have this issue been resolved?

Still encounter this issue with react-native@0.46.4.

[mhorowitz]

My belief is that somehow the files in ~/.rncache/ are corrupted, and so unpacking them doesn't work right, but for some reason the error is not caught. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/scripts/ios-install-third-party.sh will not re-download those files once they exist in ~/.rncache/. If you're running v0.47.0-rc.0 or newer, the debug info at line 22-24 may help confirm.

I believe at this time the correct fix is for the ios-install-third-party.sh script to encode the sha hashes of the files which it will download, and verify the contents of ~/.rncache/ against them before using them. If the hashes don't match, It can retry the download a few times. This should fix the problem for good.

If someone wants to work on this, that would be awesome, or else I will do it when I can. For now, the workaround is to rm -rf ~/.rncache as pointed out by several people above. (thanks!)

[hsuastegui]

I downloaded the library boost_1_63_0.tar.gz, replace it in ~/.rncache/ and extract it in /node_modules/react-native/third-party/boost_1_63_0 and it worked.

[Kosai106]

My fix was a match of some of the above mentioned solutions: rm -rf node_modules && rm -rf ~/.rncache && yarn

[jjerryhan]

This article would be helpful : Handling third party build error on react-native 0.46x

[messiBob]

i have try many ways, but no ways

[hramos]

Duplicate of #14447

[apppro123]

I have the same issue.
But I don't event find the file .rncache in my project. Where do you have that file or do I have to download it myself?

Thank you for the response.

[heyjoy21]

@HazT I guess you have to create new workspace. Do the same thing again & create a new project/workspace. Make sure you have closed Xcode.

[marceloogeda]

@apppro123 the .rncache file is not inside your project. you can found it in ~/

[apppro123]

Thank you. now I have found it.

[ham118]

@heyjoy21

I have tried with the new workspace and done the same things with closed Xcode but still throw below error:

_Installing build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/AwesomeProject.app
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=2):
Failed to install the requested application

An application bundle was not found at the provided path.
Provide a valid path to the desired application bundle.

Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

Command failed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:CFBundleIdentifier build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/AwesomeProject.app/Info.plist
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist_

[apppro123]

I also still struggle with it:

he following build commands failed:
CompileC /Users/ProGram1/OwnAppIOS/ios/build/Build/Intermediates.noindex/RCTText.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/RCTText.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/RCTUITextView.o TextInput/Multiline/RCTUITextView.m normal x86_64 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler

(1 failure)

Installing build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/OwnAppIOS.app
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=2):
Failed to install the requested application
An application bundle was not found at the provided path.
Provide a valid path to the desired application bundle.
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

Command failed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:CFBundleIdentifier build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/OwnAppIOS.app/Info.plist
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

[rvignesh89]

I managed to fix the problem for myself (Not sure if everyone else is facing the same situation though)

TL;DR

The fix is to ensure environment variables are present in the build log

Yeah, I know you are like 🤯. I am too. Let me explain a little more.

So based on the following error I figured that the Info.plist was not present at the location that PlistBuddy was expecting.

Command failed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:CFBundleIdentifier build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/appname.app/Info.plist

When I went into the folder rightfully so, Info.plist was present in build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/schemename.app/Info.plist. So I tried to figure out how run-ios resolves to my schema name which led me to the following code in react-native/local-cli/runIOS/runIOS.js

206:       let productNameMatch = /export FULL_PRODUCT_NAME="?(.+).app"?$/m.exec(buildOutput);
207:       if (productNameMatch && productNameMatch.length && productNameMatch.length > 1) {
208:         return resolve(productNameMatch[1]);//0 is the full match, 1 is the app name
209:       }

Basically the name is being read from an environment variable FULL_PRODUCT_NAME which is exported while the build happens. And since I turned off the env variables logging during build because I found it verbose and annoying, FULL_PRODUCT_NAME was null. But then it still resolves to my scheme name because of this line.

152:     if (!appName) {
153:       appName = scheme;
154:     }

This explains why removing ~/.rncache does not work for some people (including myself) and why recreating the project works for others because by default environment variables must be turned on.

[GreenRidingHood]

this is really weird, every time when i face that error, i am fixing with different suggestions, one time fixed with @dotmike and @sheminusminus, and this time I solved @barbatus suggestion and run react-native-git-upgrade on the terminal

[williamdarkocode]

There are several info.plist files in my ios directory. Which one needs to have a reference to the CFBundleID?

[apsuva]

xcodebuild: error: Unable to find a destination matching the provided destination specifier:
{ id:978DA498-5036-4EFA-A1D2-FF1148CB3948 }

run react-native run-ios --simulator="iPhone 7"

[omi10859]

It's not working, nothing is working
I'm losing my faith in react-native now

[phasedarray]

I found this issue may come out if 8081 port is occupied(In my case it is occupied by McAfee).
Run command sudo lsof -i :8081 to check which process has token the 8081 port.
Or you can run react-native run-ios --port 8082 to specify another port, but you need to change the port in code too.

[JeffKGabriel]

so this issue has plagued me forever
basically the error reporting just defaults to cfbundleIdentifier for many errors, when you run in terminal with react-native run-ios

What I did to fix mine is, run it in xcode and look at the error xcode outputs

• For me it was a project file (png) that i had linked to, but wasnt included in the project files and the build couldn't find it on other computers

I hope it helps a little:)

[enzoferey]

I had a problem related to glog-0.3.4 not finding a file named "config.h" and it was causing the CFBundleIdentifier error.

Solved it with this steps:

1. Close Xcode.
2. cd <Project-Folder>/node_modules/react-native/third-party/glog-0.3.4
3. Run ./configure

My project is a standard react-native init with react-native v0.55.4 (breaking changes of Babel 7 has too many errors with Jest environments right now so I don't want to update yet).

[messiBob]

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This problem maybe cause of your react-native javaScript code incorrect , do not about the CFBoundleID , please keep the enthuasiasm of react-native

[sonnytron]

For what it's worth, I can't get this working for a completely blank project.
Xcode 9.4 or Xcode 10 beta, neither command line tools.
NPM fully updated, latest version of react-native, node, npm and everything.
I do not think it's anyones' build configuration or changes to their JavaScript code.
Because I literally cannot even get an empty new initialized project to build.

[williamdarkocode]

@sonnytron yes screw xcode. But if your're willing to try, rm-rf ios, and react-native upgrade. will reinstall all ios build files, then react-native run-ios to re build. you can even try rm-rf node_modules and npm install

[sonnytron]

@williamdarkocode thank you but that didn't fix it. Literally a vanilla project won't build.

[heberuriegas]

Same problem using ignite latest versions of everything...

[ghost]

If anyone still having the same problem, after running all the proposed methods to no solution, I found that brew upgrade gawk enabled some of the scripts used by react-native to run properly, and then afterward I had no problem running react-native run-ios. My ENV is:

  React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
      CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
      Memory: 228.12 MB / 16.00 GB
      Shell: 5.3 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 10.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.9.4 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.2.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 11.4, macOS 10.13, tvOS 11.4, watchOS 4.3
      Android SDK:
        Build Tools: 23.0.1, 26.0.3, 28.0.0
        API Levels: 23, 26, 27, 28
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.1 AI-173.4819257
      Xcode: 9.4.1/9F2000 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      react: 16.4.1 => 16.4.1
      react-native: 0.56.0 => 0.56.0

[heyjoy21]

@HazT try with sudo

[Tak783]

Heres what I did

1. started by deleting the root folder that I tried to install to and creating a new one with a new name
2. ran react-native init myAppName
3. ran cd myAppName
4. ran npm install
5. ran react-native upgrade
6. ran react-native link

And it worked perfectly, first time.
Was able to run iOS from xCode

[ferdelamad]

run in your terminal: killall -9 node

That solved it for me!

[jeremyis]

I was getting Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist from a brand new React-Native project.

I tried a bunch of the things in this thread and had no luck. Turned out, I was running an old OS X (Sierra instead of High Sierra) and XCode (XCode 8.x instead of 9.4). I upgraded and then everything just worked.

[AugustoAleGon]

For anyone that is having the same issue. What I did was deleted the folder ios and then applied react-native eject.
And voila. react-native run-ios works!

[hramos]

Reiterating what Marc said at the start of the year. This error plainly indicates the project failed to compile or link. You'll need to look further up in your output for a hint of the root cause. I've opened #21303 in order to help people who run into this issue, and will lock this thread to avoid causing more confusion.

Duplicate of #21303