Error creating assembly manifest: access is denied

Question

Hello,

I'm having problems running a Team Build when I give my assemblies a strong name.  The team build works great unless I sign my assemblies.  When I do that I get a "vbc : error BC30140: Error creating assembly manifest: Access is denied."

Here is the error text from the build log:

Target Common:
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Project "D:\Build\Flin Flon\Release\Sources\FlinFlon.sln" is building "D:\Build\Flin Flon\Release\Sources\Common\Common.vbproj" (default targets):

Target PrepareForBuild:
Creating directory "D:\Build\Flin Flon\Release\Binaries\Release\".
Creating directory "obj\Release\".
Target CoreResGen:
Processing resource file "My Project\Resources.resx" into "obj\Release\IRC.FlinFlon.Common.Resources.resources".
Target CoreCompile:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Vbc.exe /noconfig /imports:Microsoft.VisualBasic,System,System.Collections,System.Collections.Generic,
System.Data,System.Diagnostics /nowarn:42016,41999,42017,42018,42019,42032,42036,42020,42021,42022
/rootnamespace:IRC.FlinFlon.Common /doc:obj\Release\Common.xml /define:"CONFIG=\"Release\",TRACE=-1,_MyType=\"Windows\",PLATFORM=\"AnyCPU\""
/reference:C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Data.dll,C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.dll,
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Xml.dll /debug:pdbonly /keyfile:FlinFlonCommon.snk /optimize+ /out:obj\Release\Common.dll
/resource:obj\Release\IRC.FlinFlon.Common.Resources.resources /target:library Common.vb "My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb" "My Project\Application.Designer.vb"
"My Project\Resources.Designer.vb" "My Project\Settings.Designer.vb"

vbc : error BC30140: Error creating assembly manifest: Access is denied.

Done building target "CoreCompile" in project "Common.vbproj" -- FAILED.

Done building project "Common.vbproj" -- FAILED.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Joel

Answer 1

We have been getting the same error on our BuildServer(with CruiseControl) the last week and I've not found much about it on the internet.

Our CruiseControl-task uses MSBUILD to compile the solution and it always fails on a particular project with the exception mentioned above.

I just tried moving all solution files to my development computer and it compiles just fine so there must be something wrong with our BuildServer.

/Johan

 

Answer 2

Try running "sn -k keyPair.snk"  if you get an error then you are having trouble calling the sn.exe utility.  It has something to do with the keys and delayed signing.

For some reason windows ocassionally changes the permissions in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys.

Write access is required for the sn.exe to work and for builds depending on it to work.

I hope this helps.  Took me like 3 days to figure out.

Answer 3

It worked!
Now I can finally start using an automated build.

Thank you very much for your hard work.

Joel

Answer 4

We switched from user to machine based signing and that also solved the problem.

/johan