Electron-forge code signing issue

Environments Windows
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This may be related to the other Code signing post, but it also might not, so I don’t want to muddy the waters of that thread.

I have a proof of concept electron project that uses electron-forge for building, packaging, and publishing. The whole process works on my local Windows PC, with the packages getting signed correctly. On the Travis CI VM I get a generic error:

System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. —> System.Exception: Failed to sign, command invoked was: ‘C:\Users\travis\build\daemonite\test-electron-project\node_modules\electron-winstaller\vendor\signtool.exe sign /debug /f “C:\Users\travis\build\daemonite\test-electron-project\certificate.p12” /p “howisaravenlikeawritingdesk” C:\Users\travis\AppData\Local\SquirrelTemp\tempa\lib\net45\ffmpeg.dll’

This consistently occurs for the same file, ffmpeg.dll.

Unfortunately, the signtool binary that electron-forge provides doesn’t support the /debug flag. Adding it and doing manually calling it will be my next step to try and get more details.

I have checked:

  • That the certificate file is in place and valid, by running openssl pkcs12 -info -passin pass:$CERTIFICATE_WINDOWS_PASSWORD -in certificate.p12 -nodes. I’m not going to include the output of that here, for obvious reasons, but it showed the certificate chain and private key as expected.
  • If adding the cert to the store and using that instead works, per a comment on the other thread above.
    > certutil -p $CERTIFICATE_WINDOWS_PASSWORD -importpfx $CERTIFICATE_P12
Certificate "NSW Education Standards Authority" added to store.

CertUtil: -importPFX command completed successfully.
    Later, during the electron-build command:

    System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. —> System.Exception: Failed to sign, command invoked was: ‘C:\Users\travis\build\daemonite\test-electron-project\node_modules\electron-winstaller\vendor\signtool.exe sign /n “NSW Education Standards Authority” /a /f “C:\Users\travis\build\daemonite\test-electron-project\certificate.p12” /p “howisaravenlikeawritingdesk” C:\Users\travis\AppData\Local\SquirrelTemp\tempa\lib\net45\ffmpeg.dll’

For any Travis staff with build access, my latest builds are:

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Might help in this case.

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Hey,

We got the same issue and same error output here.
Any clue of this resolution ?

Thank!

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No. We don’t have to do many builds, so I ended up doing the Mac builds manually. Essentially: Travis CI doesn’t work for our use case. When/if we start building more often, I’ll check back to see if the problem has been resolved or if we should move elsewhere.

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