Failed to delete a user if user has started a chat

KnickKnack

Hi Community,

I'm in the process of preparing a forum for the go-live and I want to cleanup all the users that tested it.
This is easy as long as a user didn't engaged with the chat otherwise when I try to delete such user and his contents the deletion process breaks and the user becomes a zombie user (basically that disappears from the users list but remains attached to the group he was assigned and there are still track of him on the DB)

The log shows:

2021-04-23T14:05:53.452Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges:isUserAllowedTo
2021-04-23T14:05:53.453Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:privileges:isAllowedTo
2021-04-23T14:05:53.455Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.whitelistFields
2021-04-23T14:05:53.456Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.getFields
2021-04-23T14:05:53.458Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:users.get
2021-04-23T14:05:53.468Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] static:user.delete
2021-04-23T14:05:53.470Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.whitelistFields
2021-04-23T14:05:53.471Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:user.getFields
2021-04-23T14:05:53.472Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:users.get
2021-04-23T14:05:53.482Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:messaging.isUserInRoom
2021-04-23T14:05:53.491Z [4567/1009599] - verbose: [plugins/fireHook] filter:messaging.save
[api] Exception caught, error with stack trace follows:
Error: [[error:chat-room-does-not-exist]]
    at Messaging.markUnread (/home/nodebb/backstage_prod/src/messaging/unread.js:34:10)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at async Promise.all (index 2)
    at async Messaging.addMessage (/home/nodebb/backstage_prod/src/messaging/create.js:58:3)
    at async Messaging.addSystemMessage (/home/nodebb/backstage_prod/src/messaging/create.js:77:19)
    at async Promise.all (index 1)
    at async Messaging.leaveRooms (/home/nodebb/backstage_prod/src/messaging/rooms.js:151:3)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async deleteChats (/home/nodebb/backstage_prod/src/user/delete.js:177:3)

I'm currently on 1.16.2 and this looks to me like a bug.
Do you have any idea on how I should clean-up the chat data of these users and then safely operate a "delete user and contents"?

Cheers, Riccardo

PitaJ

Please report this as an issue on GitHub

KnickKnack

@pitaj here you are

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/9503