Appcenter-cli: AppCenter codepush command failing on macOS

[kartikk]

Problem

The appcenter CLI seems to be looking for an item that does not exist in the keychain. Login was done successfully using appcenter login --disable-telemetry --token <codepush_access_code>

Command

appcenter codepush release-react --disabled --target-binary-version <version> --app <app> --output-dir <dir> --deployment-name <name> --disable-duplicate-release-error --description <description>

Error

Error: Command 'appcenter codepush release-react --disabled --target-binary-version <version> --app <app> --output-dir <dir> --deployment-name <name> --disable-duplicate-release-error --description <description>' 
failed with exception "Command failed: /usr/bin/security find-generic-password -a <username> -s mobile-center-cli -g
security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

Enviornment

Appcenter CLI - 2.7.3
OS - macOS(running on CircleCI)
XCode - 12.1.0

[mike-odom]

Same issue here. I'm not sure if it's related, but I just upgrade to 2.7.4 after having not used this system for a month.

security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

The command being run by appcenter is /usr/bin/security find-generic-password -a [my-user-info-redacted] -s mobile-center-cli -g
And running /usr/bin/security find-generic-password -a [my-user-info-redacted] -g shows me:

keychain: "/Users/UserName/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db"
version: 512
class: "genp"
attributes:
    0x00000007 <blob>="appcenter-cli"
    0x00000008 <blob>=<NULL>
    ...

Is that mobile-center-cli supposed to be appcenter-cli ?

[Jamminroot]

Hey @kartikk and @mike-odom, thanks for bringing this to our sight. Please let us some time to investigate this on our side. We'll keep you updated in this issue.

[DmitriyKirakosyan]

Hi guys ,

This seems to be an issue with accessing to keychain.
Could you please try to apply this https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter/issues/1210#issuecomment-737446743 and let me know if it helps.

@mike-odom thank you for the investigation! The command you mentioned uses the old service name "mobile-center-cli" indeed, however it is not related to the problem. It is just a fallback to an old service name if the first command with "-s appcenter-cli" fails. See profile.ts#L59 and osx-token-store.ts#L65.
So basically it is a bug that the actual error gets swallowed by the fallback and you can't see what actually happened. I will add it to our board.

[mike-odom]

It's working well now! Though, I'm not sure if that fixed the issue. I had to unlock the keychain to get appcenter login to work prior to running appcenter distribute. And I think this was done when trying this command before. In between now and then the machine was rebooted to fix another issue with codesign, and that might have helped this as well.

[DmitriyKirakosyan]

Thank you @mike-odom for confirming that this problem is resolved for you.

Please feel free to reopen the issue if any additional help is required.