CoreData 'This NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores. It cannot perform a save operation.'

I have been following these instructions to integrate iCloud support with CoreData and I am getting some errors.

I have this in my AppDelegate:

- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator {
    
    if (persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) {
        return persistentStoreCoordinator;
    }
    
    //NSURL *storeURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"Little_Wedding_Book_Universal.sqlite"];
    NSString *storePath = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [self applicationDocumentsDirectory]] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"appname.sqlite"];
    NSURL *storeURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:storePath];
    
    persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel:[self managedObjectModel]];
    
    NSPersistentStoreCoordinator* psc = persistentStoreCoordinator;
    
    if (IOS_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(@"5.0"))
    {
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
            NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
            
            // Migrate datamodel
            NSDictionary *options = nil;
            
            // this needs to match the entitlements and provisioning profile
            NSURL *cloudURL = [fileManager URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier:@"J9VXW4WCE8.com.company.appname"];
            NSString* coreDataCloudContent = [[cloudURL path] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"data"];
            if ([coreDataCloudContent length] != 0) {
                // iCloud is available
                cloudURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:coreDataCloudContent];
                
                options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                           [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption,
                           [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption,
                           @"appname.store", NSPersistentStoreUbiquitousContentNameKey,
                           cloudURL, NSPersistentStoreUbiquitousContentURLKey,
                           nil];
            }
            else
            {
                // iCloud is not available
                options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                           [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption,
                           [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption,
                           nil];
            }
            
            NSError *error = nil;
            [psc lock];
            if (![psc addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeURL options:options error:&error])
            {
                NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
                abort();
            }
            [psc unlock];
            
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                NSLog(@"asynchronously added persistent store!");
                [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"RefetchAllDatabaseData" object:self userInfo:nil];
            });
            
        });
        
    }
    else
    {
        NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                 [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption,
                                 [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption,
                                 nil];
        
        NSError *error = nil;
        if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeURL options:options error:&error])
        {
            NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
            abort();
        }
    }
    
    return persistentStoreCoordinator;
}

In another view controller I create an instance of my AppDelegate, create an object and call [appDelegate saveContext]; This is where the app crashes. This has always worked perfectly (up until now, adding iCloud support).

-(void)saveContext
{
    NSError *error;
    if (managedObjectContext != nil) {
        if ([managedObjectContext hasChanges] && ![managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
            // Update to handle the error appropriately.
            NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
            exit(-1);  // Fail
        }
    }
}

So it crashes at this method, and the console gives me this message:

'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'This NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores.  It cannot perform a save operation.'

What can I do next?

Edit

Console log below:

Upon launching the app, I get:

2012-08-22 17:39:47.906 appname[24351:707] asynchronously added persistent store!
2012-08-22 17:39:47.955 appname[24351:707] asynchronously added persistent store!

Followed up when the app crashes with:

2012-08-22 17:41:31.657 appname[24351:707] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'This NSPersistentStoreCoordinator has no persistent stores.  It cannot perform a save operation.'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x3749d88f 0x351a2259 0x36bf0fe7 0x36c59287 0xd648b 0x149e0b 0x373f73fd 0x3118ce07 0x3118cdc3 0x3118cda1 0x3118cb11 0x3118d449 0x3118b92b 0x3118b319 0x31171695 0x31170f3b 0x33bb322b 0x37471523 0x374714c5 0x37470313 0x373f34a5 0x373f336d 0x33bb2439 0x3119fcd5 0xd53dd 0xd5378)
terminate called throwing an exception(lldb) 

You are probably calling persistentStoreCoordinator method from two (or more) different threads. Either directly or indirectly.

As written that method is not thread safe.

It may be you have other methods with the same problem. Typically managedObjectContext exists and is written in a similar way.

There are two ways to solve this problem:

• use @synchronize to make those methods thread safe
• move the initialization code out of them and into an init method and modify them to assert/except if the ivar is nil

The second thing that you may also be doing wrong is to modify the context (for example adding new managed objects to it) and then trying to save it, before the store has been initialized.

To solve this make sure you do either one of the following:

• you do not add any managed object to the context unless you know there is already at least one managed object in it (implying the store is loaded)
• if you need to add a managed object to the context without checking that there's one already (for example after you initially create the empty store), make sure the store has been initialized already (for example do it when you get the RefetchAllDatabaseData notification and you notice the database is empty).