add EventGenerationFailure exit code

[perrozzi]

to catch missing or exceeding LHE events

[perrozzi]

backport of #21328

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @perrozzi for CMSSW_7_1_X.

It involves the following packages:

FWCore/Utilities
GeneratorInterface/LHEInterface

@smuzaffar, @efeyazgan, @Dr15Jones, @perrozzi, @thuer, @cmsbuild, @govoni can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mkirsano, @makortel, @felicepantaleo, @wddgit, @Martin-Grunewald, @agrohsje, @alberto-sanchez, @ebrondol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @slava77 you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from add EventGenerationFailure exit code  #21328

[perrozzi]

+1

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-any-integration/24485/console Started: 2017/11/16 22:58

[Dr15Jones]

please test

[Dr15Jones]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_7_1_X IBs after it passes the integration tests and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_10_0_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @davidlange6, @slava77, @smuzaffar (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[cmsbuild]

-1

Tested at: 02bdc42

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:
bd6cf02
You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/git-log-recent-commits
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/git-merge-result

You can see the results of the tests here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/summary.html

I found follow errors while testing this PR

Failed tests: UnitTests

• Unit Tests:

I found errors in the following unit tests:

---> test testCoralSQLPrinting had ERRORS

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:
bd6cf02
You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/git-log-recent-commits
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/git-merge-result

[cmsbuild]

Comparison job queued.

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-21330/24485/summary.html

Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 12
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 736311
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3410
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 732480
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 421
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0 KiB( 0 files compared)
• Checked 46 log files, 4 edm output root files, 12 DQM output files

[davidlange6]

merge