Unable to validate your application. the package does not contain an info.plist

Question

I have just finished my application. It runs fine on all devices that I tested it on. It archives successfully as well. However, when I try to validate it in the Xcode organizer I am met with the following errors:

-Unable to validate your application: The package does not contain an info.plist

I checked my project files, and I do see an info.plist file.

Answer 1

In my case I had less than 5 GB free space, cleaning up and archiving again solved it.

Answer 2

This unfortunate error message probably means that some key is missing in your info.plist.

I compared my info.plist source-file (right click the file and select view source) with the corresponding file in another project. I then discovered that, in my case, the following key was missing:

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>

I pasted in those two lines in my info.plist file, and then it all worked fine.

Beware that you probably have two info.plist-files in your project (the second one is for the unit test build) and make sure that you compare the right ones.