backport extended exception for geant4/vecgeom tracking

[civanch]

PR description:

Backport extended handling of Geant4/VecGeom exceptions from the master in order to address #37373. Here only files are backported from #36717 and #37216 with modifications of code for exceptions. Geant4 trace of exceptions expected with the new Geant4 11.0 is not considered.

PR validation:

private

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @civanch (Vladimir Ivantchenko) for CMSSW_12_2_X.

It involves the following packages:

• SimG4Core/Application (simulation)

@cmsbuild, @civanch, @mdhildreth can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@makortel, @cvuosalo, @rovere, @bsunanda, @fabiocos, @slomeo this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

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[civanch]

please test

[perrotta]

This PR backports a subset of #36717, and its fixes in #37216
@civanch could you please explain in the description what you are backporting here from #36717, and why you are not proposing to backport it all?

A comment about the previous decision of not backporting those two PRs in 12_2_X was written in #36780 (comment)

[mmusich]

@civanch is this supposed to fix #37373 ?

[civanch]

I have tried to extend the description.

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-966e5b/23452/summary.html
COMMIT: bba73af
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_2_X_2022-03-28-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc900
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/37381/23452/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 6 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 42
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3251324
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 11
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3251290
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.004 KiB( 41 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): 0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 177 log files, 37 edm output root files, 42 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[civanch]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_12_2_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_12_4_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[civanch]

urgent

[qliphy]

@civanch In the description, the issue mentioned should be #37373 instead of #37343

[qliphy]

+1