[Deploying Sakai] External users provided by LDAP cleanup

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

I've raised Priority to Critical and added a comment with Warwick's 
crash information.

cheers,
J-F

On 02/08/2011 05:57, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> I'm getting this on internal users as well. I added a user to a site
> then deleted the user via the Admin Users tool and in Site Info I get:
>
> 2011-08-02 13:54:33,838 WARN http-8081-Processor22
> org.sakaiproject.site.util.SiteParticipantHelper -
> SiteParticipantHelper.prepareParticipants: user not defined
> b52ec79d-940d-4124-9f21-29092796616c
>
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20957
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On 02/08/2011, at 10:46 AM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>
>> Steve
>>
>> Do you have any idea why I'd be getting a "crash" when trying to
>> access "Site Info" for one of the project sites with such users?
>>
>> All I get is "An internal server error occurred. Please try again
>> later." before the list of users spews out into catalina.out
>>
>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
>> <http://warwickchapman.com/>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Steve Swinsburg
>> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Unfortunately this is a known issue:
>>     https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-2973
>>
>>     (and see linked issues)
>>
>>     The tool will probably need a workaround for if there is a user in
>>     a site but no actual user because they have been deleted.
>>
>>     cheers,
>>     Steve
>>
>>
>>     On 02/08/2011, at 8:57 AM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>>
>>>     Well
>>>
>>>     I have 1100 users in this category and now whenever I try to
>>>     visit "Site Info" for sites which all of those users were a
>>>     member of, all I get is "An internal server error occurred.
>>>     Please try again later." and catalina.out gets 1100 messages like
>>>     this:
>>>
>>>     2011-08-02 00:49:25,559 WARN http-8080-Processor24
>>>     org.sakaiproject.site.util.SiteParticipantHelper -
>>>     SiteParticipantHelper.prepareParticipants: user not defined username1
>>>     2011-08-02 00:49:25,559 WARN http-8080-Processor24
>>>     org.sakaiproject.site.util.SiteParticipantHelper -
>>>     SiteParticipantHelper.prepareParticipants: user not defined username2
>>>
>>>     -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094
>>>     <tel:%2B27%2083%207797%20094> | http://warwickchapman.com
>>>     <http://warwickchapman.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque
>>>     <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr
>>>     <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi Warwick,
>>>
>>>         I've been busy and because this doesn't bother users, I
>>>         didn't work on it. :(
>>>
>>>         The only idea I have so far is to remove site subscriptions
>>>         for those users, but I don't know which way is best. I don't
>>>         know which other things should be removed in order not to
>>>         break anything. Haven't tried any way of doing this yet.
>>>
>>>         What do you think ?
>>>
>>>         J-F
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 01/08/2011 11:55, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi J-F
>>>
>>>             I have this same issue now. Did you ever find a solution
>>>             to this?
>>>
>>>             -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094
>>>             <tel:%2B27%2083%207797%20094> | http://warwickchapman.com
>>>             <http://warwickchapman.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque
>>>             <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr
>>>             <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>
>>>             <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at __upmc.fr
>>>             <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>>>
>>>
>>>             wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi all,
>>>
>>>             I have external users provided by LDAP.
>>>
>>>             Some are not in the directory anymore and I'm getting
>>>             messages such as :
>>>
>>>             2010-09-22 15:53:47,008 WARN TP-Processor22
>>>             org.sakaiproject.site.util.__SiteParticipantHelper -
>>>             SiteParticipantHelper.__prepareParticipants: user not
>>>             defined ...
>>>
>>>             2010-09-22 15:54:22,988 WARN TP-Processor14
>>>             org.sakaiproject.site.tool.__helper.managegroupsectionrole.__rsf.GroupListProducer
>>>             -
>>>             org.sakaiproject.site.tool.__helper.managegroupsectionrole.__rsf.GroupListProducer at __7762e799fillInComponent:
>>>             cannot find user with id ...
>>>
>>>             How can I remove those users and at least the data that
>>>             leads to those
>>>             warnings?
>>>
>>>             Help with further cleanup of data related to those users
>>>             is welcome.
>>>
>>>             Cheers,
>>>
>>>             J-F
>>>
>>>             --
>>>             Jean-Francois Leveque
>>>             Australe CTO (local Sakai)
>>>             University Pierre and Marie Curie
>>>             France