fastlane: Inaccurate error "Could not create another Distribution certificate"

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Issue Description

I was trying to setup fastlane match for the first time. I kept having to rerun it because of various errors. Eventually I got to the error “Could not create another Distribution certificate, reached the maximum number of available Distribution certificates.” so I went to https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/list and revoked a distribution certificate and ran fastlane match again. Same error so I deleted another one. Finally I have deleted them all but continue to receive the same error from fastlane so I ran with --verbose and it turns out that was not the error at all.

The actual error was

    "status" : "409",
    "code" : "ENTITY_ERROR",
    "title" : "There is a problem with the request entity",
    "detail" : "You already have a current Developer ID Application certificate or a pending certificate request."

I still don’t quite know what to do with that but at least it is a little more accurate. From https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/659545 I gather that I can’t revoke the developer ID certificate easily and I wish I would have known that before fastlane created more of them.

Command executed

fastlane match developer_id username:"REDACTED" app_identifier:"REDACTED" --verbose

Environment

 swift-driver version: 1.26.9 
✅ fastlane environment ✅
Stack



Key
Value




OS
11.5.2


Ruby
2.7.4


Bundler?
true


Git
git version 2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)


Installation Source
~/.gem/bin/fastlane


Host
macOS 11.5.2 (20G95)


Ruby Lib Dir
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ruby@2.7/2.7.4/lib


OpenSSL Version
OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021


Is contained
false


Is homebrew
false


Is installed via Fabric.app
false


Xcode Path
/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/


Xcode Version
13.0


Swift Version
5.5



System Locale



Variable
Value





LANG
en_US.UTF-8
✅


LC_ALL
en_US.UTF-8
✅


LANGUAGE





fastlane files:
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fastlane gems



Gem
Version
Update-Status




fastlane
2.193.1
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Related: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/19150 https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/18605