Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Colin,

Thanks for that heads-up. I also know that you're taking steps to try to 
 reproduce the problem more often than once every several months. That 
is probably essential to debugging whatever the problem is.

Can you also detail which version of grouper and other info about the 
execution context in which the problem crops up? Java rev, DB, etc?

Tom

Colin Hudler wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We have an hourly process that reads select groups and memberships from 
> the grouper API and syncronizes them to various places (LDAP, SQL, ). 
> This process has been running for over a year, and evolves over time, as 
> does our groups registry.
>
> A few months ago, for no apparent reason, the provisioner destroyed a 
> large number of members to a large group.  About 40k out of 50k members 
> were deleted in the provisioning target.  The groups registry appeared 
> intact from the web UI.  Subsequent runs of the job corrected it 
> automatically by adding the members back.  It happened again in the same 
> week, and we still did not have sufficient logs to pinpoint the problem. 
>  It has not reoccurred, and I have been trying to duplicate it ever since.
>
> Yesterday the problem finally repeated, and I found that the API 
> returned a truncated membership from getMembers (it returned about 10k 
> members instead of 50k).  Subsiquent calls to getMembers behaved 
> correctly.  Grouper did not log any errors, or anything unusual.  I am 
> also unable to determine what caused it.  I don't have a decent theory, 
> only hypothesis.
>
> I realize that no problem of this kind has ever been reported.  I 
> believe it is tied to this specific group (and one other).  I can 
> provide more information if anyone is interested.