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Xcode 9 beta often fails with "App installation failed, An unknown error has occurred."

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ios, swift
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Reproduce the Xcode 9 beta installation and debugging failure with an ARKit project on a device, then determine whether the behavior is specific to mapbox-arkit-ios; done would require a confirmed project-level cause or a clear external tracking conclusion.

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Description

Xcode 9 betas (at least 2 through 5) often stop with this error when working on ARKit projects when trying to install and debug on the device:

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Opening this for tracking but does not seem to be specific to anything about mapbox-arkit-ios. Once it happens, it often happens for every other install/run attempt so usually simply trying again works. Often a full restart of Xcode avoids the issue for a bit but it'll inevitably come back.

Dominant language
Swift
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Forks
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