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["Hyzer, Chris" <>]

This is fixed in patch grouper_v2_3_0_ui_patch_46

Thanks
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Morgan 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 4:55 PM
To: Hyzer, Chris 
<>
Cc: 

Subject: RE: [grouper-users] Error: "Cant find creator of ..."

If I understand this right, my grouper daemon is v2.3 patch 80, but my ui 
frontends are running api v2.3 patch 39 and ui v2.3 patch 32.

I haven't touched our Grouper stuff in a while...  :)

Thanks,
        Andy

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Hyzer, Chris wrote:

> What version of grouper do you use and what patch levels?  We can fix this 
> pretty easily if you like... as a workaround you can adjust those database 
> fields if you like...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morgan 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 2:50 PM
> To: Hyzer, Chris 
> <>
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: RE: [grouper-users] Error: "Cant find creator of ..."
>
> Aha, the error message was misleading!  Here is more of the stack trace:
>
> 2018-07-23 11:19:54,612  WARN api.GuiObjectBase:  Cant find creator of:osu 
> : org : is : app : box : temp eligible
> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.SubjectNotFoundException: No results: 
> searchSubject filter:(uid=%TERM%) searchValue: hagimotk
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.provider.LdapSourceAdapter.getLdapUnique(LdapSourceAdapter.java:811)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.provider.LdapSourceAdapter.getSubject(LdapSourceAdapter.java:375)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.subj.SourcesXmlResolver.find(SourcesXmlResolver.java:309)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.subj.CachingResolver.find(CachingResolver.java:143)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.subj.ValidatingResolver.find(ValidatingResolver.java:105)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.SubjectFinder.findByIdAndSource(SubjectFinder.java:504)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.Group.getModifySubject(Group.java:3690)
>         at 
> edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.grouperUi.beans.api.GuiObjectBase.getLastUpdatedByGuiSubject(GuiObjectBase.java:196)
> ...
>
> So it was actually failing to resolve the subject that last modified the
> group.  Digging in with SQL shows:
>
>
> SQL> select name, creator_id, MODIFIER_ID from grouper_groups where id = 
> 'd32649c748ec4cb19e489b0ab5656f8f';
>
> NAME
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CREATOR_ID                               MODIFIER_ID
> ---------------------------------------- 
> ----------------------------------------
> osu:org:is:app:box:temp-eligible
> 02c44e5a77fb4dbf81ce38515e9deed7         d8adf0aa82df489a9c3fe011d8734081
>
> SQL> select subject_id from grouper_members where id = 
> '02c44e5a77fb4dbf81ce38515e9deed7';
>
> SUBJECT_ID
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> lomaxe
>
> SQL> select subject_id from grouper_members where id = 
> 'd8adf0aa82df489a9c3fe011d8734081';
>
> SUBJECT_ID
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hagimotk
>
>
> I understand now why I'm seeing this error.  As one of our former Grouper
> admins, hagimotk will be the modifier for many groups.
>
> What are the options for dealing with this?  Find all occurrences and
> "fix" them?  Stop removing subjects from the subject source?  :)
>
> It would be nice if the error message did not mislead me by using
> "creator" in its wording.
>
> Thanks,
>       Andy
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
>
>> Can you select the row from grouper_groups and see if the auditing member 
>> ids (creator_id, modifier_id) are still the old user (they should still 
>> have a row in grouper_members by
>> "id").  If you want to open a bug with that info we can fix that for you
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 
>> 
>>  
>> [mailto:]
>>  On Behalf Of Andrew Morgan
>> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 2:28 PM
>> To: 
>> 
>> Subject: [grouper-users] Error: "Cant find creator of ..."
>>
>> One of our Grouper admins left the university a while ago, and we recently
>> deleted her account from LDAP as part of our account lifecycle.  We
>> removed her Grouper memberships, but she had direct privileges on a few
>> groups.  I ran the USDU to remove those as well.
>>
>> Even after running USDU, I'm seeing this curious error message in the UI
>> log when I view the Members or Privileges tab of specific group:
>>
>> 2018-07-23 11:19:54,612  WARN api.GuiObjectBase:  Cant find creator of:osu 
>> : org : is : app : box : temp eligible
>> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.SubjectNotFoundException: No results: 
>> searchSubject filter:(uid=%TERM%) searchValue: <username-redacted>
>>
>>
>> However, when I view "More" in the UI for the group, it says:
>>
>> Creator:     Lomax, Erica (lomaxe)
>>
>>
>> (lomaxe is still a valid account, not the person that left).
>>
>> Where is the "creator" in the error message coming from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy Morgan
>> Systems Administrator, Identity & Access Management
>> Information Services | Oregon State University
>>
>