"Command /usr/sbin/chown failed with exit code 1" when Archiving

Question

I am trying to archive my first iOS 4.3 Application for iPhone and I always encounter this error:

Command /usr/sbin/chown failed with exit code 1

I have searched through various forums, trying solutions such as changing the Alternate Install Group (which I don't know what to change to), and turning on 'Skip Install'.

Answer 1

As dumb as it sounds, in XCode 5.1.1, all I had to do was quit out and restart XCode just now. I know it's not much of an "answer" but it just worked for me.

Edit: this is still working as of July 2018 for folks. Edit: this is still working as of January 2019 xcode 9.4.1

Answer 2

I was having difficulty with the SetOwnerAndGroup part of Archiving - I was getting /usr/sbin/chown failed, and it was getting 'operation not permitted' on each file it tried to 'chown'.

This was easily tested in the terminal - 'chown' doesn't work, but 'sudo chown' does. Since I had no need to be changing file permissions, the simplest solution was to not do the chown.

The screenshot above shows - I just blanked out Install Owner/Group, and that did it.

Answer 3

When I got this error, rebooting my computer fixed it.