Xcode 5 Indexing | Waiting for xcodebuild

Question

Xcode 5 refuses to index any project. It waits for xcodebuild. I already deleted derived data, deleted the project.xcworkspace file, clean and restarted. The command line tools are installed. It is Xcode 5.0.2 on OSX 10.8.5.

Answer 1

I have had this behavior occur when my machine was also hosting the Xcode 5 Bots Service -- The xcodebuild command line tool was happily running in the background servicing build requests but prevented Xcode's Indexer from being able to do its job...definitely annoying.

• If you are running OS X Server and have the Xcode service running temporarily turn it off.
• Disable any build systems or autonomous testing tools you have running on your development machine. Many of them rely on xcrun and xcodebuild to hook into the development process. One or more of those tools may be taking a perpetual lock on xcodebuild behind the scenes.
• Temporarily remove any Xcode plugins you may have installed.
• If you have worked with a cross-platform mobile development tool, consider looking at any daemons those toolchains install and have running on your machine (Activity Monitor will help with that)
• Launch Activity Monitor and forcibly quit any stray xcodebuild processes -- Be sure to set your Activity Monitor to show all processes, not just 'My Processes' via View > All Processes. Sort alphabetically and see if xcodebuild is reinvoked shortly after you terminate the process.

After confirming that xcodebuild is terminated for all users, relaunch Xcode and see if the Indexer is able to start.

In my case, I had both OS X Server's Xcode Service running as well as a wayward, obsolete 3rd-party Xcode plugin perplexing the Indexer. Removing the plugin and migrating OS X server to a dedicated machine outside of my development environment resolved the issue for me.