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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Just curious, any updates on this issue?

Thanks,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Hudler 
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> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:38 PM
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> 
> Subject: [grouper-dev] Occasionally Truncated Membership
> 
> 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.