"InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user" from GlobalBlocking
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	thcipriani
	Jan 6 2022, 4:48 PM

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Error

mwversion: 1.38.0-wmf.16
reqId: 724a2982-b541-410b-b5ce-f0350883d26d
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[{reqId}] {exception_url}   InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user or a name that cannot be a local user

exception.trace

from /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/block/DatabaseBlock.php(1177)
#0 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/extensions/GlobalBlocking/includes/GlobalBlock.php(41): MediaWiki\Block\DatabaseBlock->setBlocker(User)
#1 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/extensions/GlobalBlocking/includes/GlobalBlock.php(21): GlobalBlock->setGlobalBlocker(stdClass)
#2 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/extensions/GlobalBlocking/includes/GlobalBlocking.php(40): GlobalBlock->__construct(stdClass, array, array)
#3 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/extensions/GlobalBlocking/includes/GlobalBlockingHooks.php(141): GlobalBlocking::getUserBlock(User, string)
#4 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/HookContainer/HookContainer.php(160): GlobalBlockingHooks->onUserIsBlockedGlobally(User, string, boolean, NULL)
#5 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/HookContainer/HookRunner.php(4160): MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookContainer->run(string, array)
#6 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/user/User.php(1832): MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookRunner->onUserIsBlockedGlobally(User, string, boolean, NULL)
#7 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/user/PasswordReset.php(357): User->getGlobalBlock()
#8 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/user/PasswordReset.php(160): PasswordReset->isBlocked(User)
#9 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/user/PasswordReset.php(130): PasswordReset->computeIsAllowed(User)
#10 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/libs/MapCacheLRU.php(268): PasswordReset->{closure}()
#11 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/user/PasswordReset.php(131): MapCacheLRU->getWithSetCallback(string, Closure)
#12 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(996): PasswordReset->isAllowed(User)
#13 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(707): LoginSignupSpecialPage->getFieldDefinitions()
#14 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(678): LoginSignupSpecialPage->onAuthChangeFormFields(array, array, array, string)
#15 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(662): AuthManagerSpecialPage->fieldInfoToFormDescriptor(array, array, string)
#16 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(419): LoginSignupSpecialPage->getAuthForm(array, string)
#17 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(314): AuthManagerSpecialPage->trySubmit()
#18 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(671): LoginSignupSpecialPage->execute(NULL)
#19 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(1378): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
#20 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/MediaWiki.php(314): MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(string, RequestContext)
#21 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/MediaWiki.php(903): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#22 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/includes/MediaWiki.php(563): MediaWiki->main()
#23 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/index.php(53): MediaWiki->run()
#24 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.38.0-wmf.16/index.php(46): wfIndexMain()
#25 /srv/mediawiki/w/index.php(3): require(string)
#26 {main}

Notes

Seeing this at a low rate on metawiki (< 1×/hr)
Possibly related to T192964: Fatal "InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user" on Special:Contributions for blocked user, but with a different stacktrace

Details

Request URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=*&returnto=*

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	maintenance: add a script for updating outdated blockers	mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking	master	+58 -0

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved	PRODUCTION ERROR	Zabe	T298707 "InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user" from GlobalBlocking
Resolved		Zabe	T299371 Migrate globalblocks table to use central ids instead of usernames
Resolved		• Marostegui	T299827 Add gb_by_central_id column to globalblocks table
Resolved		None	T300988 Recreate views for globalblocks table
Resolved		Urbanecm	T305014 Run PopulateCentralId on metawiki
Resolved		• Marostegui	T370394 Drop gb_by from globalblocks table

Event Timeline

thcipriani created this task.Jan 6 2022, 4:48 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJan 6 2022, 4:48 PM

Adding @Zabe and @Majavah as I see some recent updates to GlobalBlock (5000c74c8b0986967f3e927f67790d5ce126a5af and 9b92b5e93702fc53bbf53e5a9bb2bcde568f09a9) — no idea if they're related to this.

thcipriani added a project: Unstewarded-production-error.Jan 6 2022, 4:51 PM

thcipriani moved this task from Untriaged to Jan 2022 on the Wikimedia-production-error board.

Caused by https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=44894841. It seems the globalblocks table did not get updated while the user got renamed. So there are now entries of a non-existent user.

MariaDB [centralauth_p]> select * from globalblocks where gb_by='QuiteUnusual' limit 5;
+---------+----------------------------+--------------+------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| gb_id   | gb_address                 | gb_by        | gb_by_wiki | gb_reason                     | gb_timestamp   | gb_anon_only | gb_expiry      | gb_range_start                      | gb_range_end                        |
+---------+----------------------------+--------------+------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| 1090467 | 46.148.234.229             | QuiteUnusual | metawiki   | Cross-wiki spam: spambot      | 20210923111108 |            0 | 20220323111108 | 2E94EAE5                            | 2E94EAE5                            |
| 1119708 | 87.74.55.0/24              | QuiteUnusual | metawiki   | Long-term abuse               | 20211006120836 |            0 | 20220406120836 | 574A3700                            | 574A37FF                            |
| 1233665 | 47.234.198.142             | QuiteUnusual | metawiki   | Cross-wiki abuse: harassment  | 20211029134032 |            0 | 20220129134032 | 2FEAC68E                            | 2FEAC68E                            |
| 1343170 | 205.213.208.0/24           | QuiteUnusual | metawiki   | Long-term abuse               | 20211118152550 |            0 | 20220518152550 | CDD5D000                            | CDD5D0FF                            |
| 1343401 | 2001:4454:628:0:0:0:0:0/48 | QuiteUnusual | metawiki   | Long-term abuse               | 20211123120223 |            0 | 20220223120223 | v6-20014454062800000000000000000000 | v6-200144540628FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
+---------+----------------------------+--------------+------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
5 rows in set (0.13 sec)

MariaDB [centralauth_p]>

Change 751992 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking@master] maintenance: add a script for updating outdated blockers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/751992

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 6 2022, 8:52 PM

We very briefly talked about this on IRC. The above patch provides a maintenance script to fix the currently wrong entries in the globalblocks table. The proper solution to this is to migrate the table to use CentralIdLookup instead of usernames.

Change 751992 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking@master] maintenance: add a script for updating outdated blockers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/751992

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.17; 2022-01-10).Jan 7 2022, 1:00 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 7 2022, 1:10 PM

Krinkle renamed this task from InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user or a name that cannot be a local user to "InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user" from GlobalBlocking.Jan 13 2022, 6:41 PM

Krinkle mentioned this in T192964: Fatal "InvalidArgumentException: Blocker must be a local user" on Special:Contributions for blocked user.Jan 14 2022, 4:01 PM

Zabe mentioned this in T299371: Migrate globalblocks table to use central ids instead of usernames.Jan 18 2022, 12:41 AM

Zabe added a subtask: T299371: Migrate globalblocks table to use central ids instead of usernames.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-01-18T09:50:24Z] <taavi> mwscript extensions/GlobalBlocking/maintenance/FixBlockerUsername.php --wiki metawiki "QuiteUnusual" "MarcGarver" # T298707

The error should be mitigated for now until another steward gets renamed. I have created T299371 for the proper fix.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-01-12T11:11:22Z] <zabe> mwscript extensions/GlobalBlocking/maintenance/FixBlockerUsername.php --wiki metawiki "Defender" "Elton" # T298707

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-01-13T18:25:08Z] <zabe> mwscript extensions/GlobalBlocking/maintenance/FixBlockerUsername.php --wiki metawiki "Green Giant" "Cromium" # T298707

Zabe closed subtask T299371: Migrate globalblocks table to use central ids instead of usernames as Resolved.Jul 18 2024, 9:04 AM

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