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Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError: Explicit transaction still active; a caller might have failed to call endAtomic() or cancelAtomic().
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[{reqId}] {exception_url}   Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError: Explicit transaction still active; a caller might have failed to call endAtomic() or cancelAtomic().
exception.trace
from /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1694)
#0 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(324): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->approvePrimaryChanges(array, string)
#1 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/includes/MediaWiki.php(671): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->commitPrimaryChanges(string, array)
#2 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/includes/api/ApiMain.php(901): MediaWiki::preOutputCommit(DerivativeContext)
#3 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/includes/api/ApiMain.php(846): ApiMain->executeActionWithErrorHandling()
#4 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/api.php(90): ApiMain->execute()
#5 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.39.0-wmf.23/api.php(45): wfApiMain()
#6 /srv/mediawiki/w/api.php(3): require(string)
#7 {main}
Impact
Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Database_error — user report on en.wiki at 2022-08-16T04:10:00.000Z

[c42d457a-4fe1-4b6f-b69f-0cf0ad0ab0b9] 2022-08-16 04:08:56: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()mediawiki/corewmf/1.39.0-wmf.25+19 -12
SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()mediawiki/coremaster+19 -12
objectcache: Add trace to SqlBagOStuff DBError loggingmediawiki/coremaster+4 -4
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Event Timeline

TheresNoTime created this task.Aug 16 2022, 4:26 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptAug 16 2022, 4:26 AM
TheresNoTime added a parent task: T315271: db1151, db2144 X2 masters error: Could not execute Delete_rows_v1 event on table mainstash.objectstash.Aug 16 2022, 4:27 AM
TheresNoTime updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 16 2022, 4:33 AM
Dzahn subscribed.Aug 16 2022, 4:48 AM

04:46 < cwhite> Explicit transaction still active errors have stopped

TheresNoTime added a comment.EditedAug 16 2022, 4:50 AM

fwiw reporting user mentioned above is indeed now able to save their edit (perma)

colewhite closed this task as Resolved.Aug 16 2022, 4:53 AM
colewhite assigned this task to jcrespo.
colewhite subscribed.

Recovery appears to correlate with restoration of X2 primary db in eqiad. Optimistically resolving.

tstarling reopened this task as Open.Aug 16 2022, 6:09 AM
tstarling triaged this task as High priority.
tstarling added subscribers: aaron, tstarling.

Any kind of problem with x2 was supposed to cause graceful degradation in MediaWiki. The remaining issue is the fact that replication failure leads to an uncaught exception from approvePrimaryChanges().

tstarling added a project: Performance-Team.Aug 16 2022, 6:11 AM
RhinosF1 subscribed.Aug 16 2022, 7:52 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 16 2022, 11:41 PM

Change 823763 had a related patch set uploaded (by Krinkle; author: Krinkle):

[mediawiki/core@master] objectcache: Add trace to SqlBagOStuff DBError logging

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/823763

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 16 2022, 11:41 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 17 2022, 2:50 AM

Change 823763 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] objectcache: Add trace to SqlBagOStuff DBError logging

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/823763

gerritbot added a comment.Aug 17 2022, 2:55 AM

Change 823791 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Starling; author: Tim Starling):

[mediawiki/core@master] SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/823791

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22).Aug 17 2022, 3:00 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 17 2022, 4:49 PM

Change 823791 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/823791

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 17 2022, 5:30 PM
jcrespo added a subscriber: • lmata.Aug 18 2022, 12:05 PM

Preliminary incident report created at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-08-16_x2_databases_replication_breakage CC @lmata

To concrete gaps in my knowledge that I left blank:

  • Who called Amir?
  • Detection- I wasn't around at that time (was it purely page-based, were user reports fundamental, was logstash/mw error rate what alerted SREs?

CC @colewhite

jcrespo added a project: Wikimedia-Incident.Aug 18 2022, 12:06 PM
• lmata added a project: SRE-OnFire.Aug 18 2022, 1:54 PM

@jcrespo thank you for the report! looking forward to our review later, much appreciated.

jcrespo added a comment.Aug 18 2022, 2:43 PM

I checked operations logs and I have answers to my previous questions:

Who called Amir?

He was woken up by the manual page by @colewhite.

Detection- I wasn't around at that time (was it purely page-based, were user reports fundamental, was logstash/mw error rate what alerted SREs?

Icinga was taken seriously right away and procedure was followed. @TheresNoTime brought later user reports to the attention of SREs (which is helpful to have another way to verify user impact) but SREs were already working by then.

Updating report.

thcipriani moved this task from Untriaged to Aug 2022 on the Wikimedia-production-error board.Aug 18 2022, 3:58 PM
jcrespo moved this task from Backlog to Pending Review & Scorecard on the SRE-OnFire board.Aug 18 2022, 6:51 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 19 2022, 1:07 AM

Change 824434 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Starling; author: Tim Starling):

[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.39.0-wmf.25] SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/824434

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2022, 1:07 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 19 2022, 1:24 AM

Change 824434 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.39.0-wmf.25] SqlBagOStuff: use cancelAtomic()

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/824434

Stashbot added a comment.Aug 19 2022, 1:31 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-08-19T01:30:59Z] <tstarling@deploy1002> Synchronized php-1.39.0-wmf.25/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php: fix potential mainstash exception file 1 T315274 (duration: 03m 21s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 19 2022, 1:31 AM
Stashbot added a comment.Aug 19 2022, 1:38 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-08-19T01:37:59Z] <tstarling@deploy1002> Synchronized php-1.39.0-wmf.25/includes/objectcache/SqlBagOStuff.php: fix potential mainstash exception file 2 T315274 (duration: 03m 30s)

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.25; 2022-08-15); removed MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22).Aug 19 2022, 2:00 AM
tstarling closed this task as Resolved.Aug 19 2022, 2:03 AM

My reason for reopening this task is resolved. The patch has been deployed, so a similar failure in future should not lead to user-visible exceptions.

jcrespo mentioned this in T306118: Notify DBA prior to sending db traffic to x2.Aug 23 2022, 9:58 AM
tstarling mentioned this in T316847: Production test of x2 failure modes.Sep 1 2022, 1:04 AM
brennen mentioned this in T383933: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError: Explicit transaction still active; a caller might have failed to call endAtomic() or cancelAtomic()..Jan 16 2025, 8:39 PM
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