[Cdash] Update shows 'Unknown' user when the

[Martin Apel]

Hi Michele,

I have the same problem, but until now I did not investigate this further. So at least you now know, that it's not a problem which only exists
at your site.

Martin

On 11/07/11 01:27, Michele Caramello wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed certain Update.xml submissions to Cdash (using SVN) can
> cause the dashboard to believe a repository operation was done by an
> unregistered user (Unknown). Consequently, dashboard warnings are
> generated as well as back-end errors, Cdash log messages (see the
> first extract below).
>
> << BEGIN LOG CDash error message >>
> Warning reported on 2011-07-08 14:49:16 for build #9552
> (SendEmail): User: Unknown is not registered (or has no email) for the project 1
> << END LOG>>
>
> I have browsed the CDash mailing list archives and found nothing
> matching. There was indeed a report for the same error but it was due
> to other causes
> (http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cdash/2010-July/000824.html).
> I have been chasing this one problem down for a while now and I
> finally got the time to cross check the SVN log with CDash to find out
> those happen when there is a repository deletion (SVN remove).
>
> Further investigation made me actually think this is actually not a
> Cdash issue but actually a real problem in the Update.xml (generated
> by CTest) file and that is not consistent across submissions from
> different machines (in this case I compared recent version of CTest
> for WinXP 32 bits and Ubuntu 10.x 32 bits).
> The 2 machines in fact performs the exact same tasks just on different
> environments and that includes also the update of the repository at
> each run.
>
> Here is more details:
> The Update.xml portion I pasted below shows how CTest's generated
> Update.xml contains "Unknown" for the removed files in the repository.
> This happens on the Linux machine.
>
> << BEGIN LOG Update.xml message from CTest running on a Linux machine
> for a normal svn update and a remove >>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <log>
> <logentry
>    revision="5726">
> <author>USER1</author>
> <date>2011-07-06T22:29:20.049970Z</date>
> <msg> bug :1442 bug fixes</msg>
> </logentry>
> </log>
>         Revision: 5726
>         Author:   USER1
>         Date:     2011-07-06T22:29:20.049970Z
>         Message:   bug :1442 bug fixes
> File: mllite/compass / lsm303dlm_m.c was updated by vbhatt to
> revision: 5726 from revision: 5726
> .* Get file update information: "/usr/bin/svn" log -r 5725:5726 --xml
> "mllite/accel/lsm303a.c"
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <log>
> svn: 'mllite/accel/lsm303a.c' is not under version control
> File: mllite/accel / lsm303a.c was updated by Unknown to revision:
> Unknown from revision: Unknown
> .* Get file update information: "/usr/bin/svn" log -r 5725:5726 --xml
> "mllite/accel/lsm303_a.c"
> << END LOG >>
>
> CDash just reads the info in Update.xml and show "Unknown" next to the
> removed files:
>
> << BEGIN LOG Update.xml message from CTest running on a Linux machine
> for a normal svn update and a remove >>
> Files changed on apps-build  (Linux-c++) as of Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:30:21 PDT
> [Show Activity Graph]
> [Expand all | Collapse all]
>   MPL Updated files (2)
>       mllite/accel
>           lsm303a.c Revision: -1 by Unknown
>         - Removed file
>       mllite/compass
>           lsm303dlm_m.c Revision: 5726 by USER1
>         bug :1442 bug fixes
>   Modified files (0)
>   Conflicting files (0)
> << END LOG>>
>
>
> The particularity is the same problem does not happen for the CTest
> execution from Windows, where the Update.xml simply marks the
> deletions as updates:
>
> << BEGIN LOG Update.xml from CTest run on Windows machine for the remove file >>
> <Updated>
>   <File>lsm303a.c</File>
>   <Directory>mllite/accel</Directory>
>   <FullName>mllite/accel/lsm303a.c</FullName>
>   <CheckinDate>2011-07-06T22:29:20.049970Z</CheckinDate>
>   <Author>USER1</Author>
>   <Log>bug :1442 bug fixes</Log>
>   <Revision>5726</Revision>
>   <PriorRevision>5725</PriorRevision>
>   </Updated>
> << END LOG>>
>
> and therefore CDash shows assigns the deletion of the file to the proper author:
>
> << BEGIN LOG Update.xml message from CTest running on a Windows
> machine for a normal svn update and a remove >>
> Files changed on APPS-XP-BUILD  (Win32-vs8) as of Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:30:19 PDT
> [Show Activity Graph]
> [Expand all | Collapse all]
>   MPL Updated files (2)
>       mllite/accel
>           lsm303a.c Revision: 5726 by USER1
>         bug :1442 bug fixes
>       mllite/compass
>           lsm303dlm_m.c Revision: 5726 by USER1
>         bug :1442 bug fixes
>   Modified files (0)
>   Conflicting files (0)
> << END LOG>>
>
> On top of that, the Update.xml from Windows is a well formed xml
> versus the Linux version seems it is not.
>
> What are the chances this is caused by the different versions of SVN
> running on the 2 machines (stock svn on Ubuntu, CollabNet command-line
> svn client on Windows).
>
> Thanks for bearing with me and reading through this.
>
> Regards,
> Michele
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