Symptoms

Unable to Deploy Package
 

Diagnoses

I am trying to deploy a package to the environment but I am seeing Missing Reference Errors in the Deployment Utility. the missing references are to other items contained in the package. To work around this I deployed a missing reference for one of the errors ( a smartObject for a view) first. this deployed successfully but when I then tried again to deploy the full package it still displays a missing reference for the view smartObject even though it is both in the package and already deployed

Resolution

Deployed first successfully the view that contained the smartobject with a missing reference separately.
Afterwards deployed the entire project and that seemed to solve the issue.