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braney
  Sun Sep 6 07:31:02 2026 -0700
docent: rm38272 is no longer an xfail, the bug it pins is fixed

The nightly run mailed FAIL this morning with 24 ok and rm38272.xfail passing,
which is the signal the makefile was built to give.  cdb348c5512 added the
isGenArk() guard to asForDb() and to two trackDbFilter blocks in hui.c, so
hgTrackUi no longer tries a MySQL connect to a quickLifted GenArk source
assembly.  genome-test picked it up overnight.  Renamed, and the comment now
records the fix rather than the symptom.

The assertions are tighter than they were, and for the same reason rm37389's
were.  "RefSeq mRNAs Track Settings" was the only positive check, and the
451-character broken page carries that heading too, so it never told the two
apart -- the noText on the MySQL warning was doing all the work.  The checks are
now on "Color track by codons" and "Data schema/format description and
download", which come from cfgByCfgType() and extraUiLinks(), two of the three
routines that were handed the bad db, and neither is in the broken page.

Both pages were measured on 2026-09-06, not inferred: hgwbeta still returned the
451-character page with the warning while genome-test returned 2800 characters
with none.  The fix ships in v504.

refs #38252

diff --git src/hg/utils/docent/tests/regress/rm38272.docent.yaml src/hg/utils/docent/tests/regress/rm38272.docent.yaml
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+# #38272 -- hgTrackUi tried a MySQL connect to a quickLifted GenArk source assembly.
+#
+# This is NOT a copy of rm37388. That script covers hgc. This one drives the OTHER page
+# reached from the same lifted track, its track-settings page, which had a path of its own
+# that #37388's per-CGI fix never guarded:
+#
+#     Warning/Error(s):
+#     Couldn't set connection database to GCA_018466835.2
+#     mySQL error 1049: Unknown database 'GCA_018466835.2'
+#
+# specificUi() (hgTrackUi.c:3432) reassigns db to the track's quickLiftDb setting and hands
+# that db to cfgByCfgType(), labelCfgUi() and extraUiLinks(). For a GenArk source the db is
+# a bare accession with no MySQL database behind it. trackHubDatabase() does not catch that,
+# because the source hub is not loaded in this request. hgc got the matching isGenArk()
+# guard in #37388 (921a40c472e); hgTrackUi got it on master in cdb348c5512, where asForDb()
+# and two trackDbFilter blocks in hui.c now test isGenArk() as well. That ships in v504.
+#
+# Both halves were measured on 2026-09-06, not inferred. Broken, the page came back 451
+# characters: the warning box, the nav chrome, the track name, a display-mode row, "Remove
+# from QuickLift", and nothing else. That is where specificUi() is called, at hgTrackUi.c
+# :4202, just after the "Remove from QuickLift" link at :4118. Fixed, the same page is 2800
+# characters. hgwbeta still gave the 451-character page that morning, so the two were seen
+# side by side.
+#
+# The assertions are on text that exists only past the point where the broken page stopped.
+# "RefSeq mRNAs Track Settings" is deliberately NOT one of them: the 451-character page
+# carries that heading too, so it never told the two apart. "Color track by codons" comes
+# from cfgByCfgType() and "Data schema/format description and download" from extraUiLinks(),
+# which are two of the three routines that were handed the bad db.
+#
+# It reproduces from scratch with no session at all -- open GenArk GCA_018466835.2 at
+# CM089257.1:80,200,000-80,360,000, leave the default tracks alone, QuickLift to hg38, click
+# the gear on RefSeq mRNAs. The script that checks any server that way is at
+# /hive/groups/browser/redmineNotes/38252/claude/repro_37388_hgTrackUi.js.
+#
+# This script uses the braney/crash1 session instead, because that is the cheap way to the
+# same state and rm37388 already depends on it, so preflight covers it either way.
+target: genome-test
+db: hg38
+reset: true
+fast: true
+steps:
+  - loadSession: {user: braney, name: crash1}
+  - expect: {noText: "Could not find session", rows: [xenoRefGene]}
+
+  # The track's own settings link, which is the gesture a user makes to configure a lifted
+  # track. hgTrackUi has no track image, so there is no row to assert on: the checks are on
+  # the page text.
+  - click: 'a[href*="hgTrackUi"][href*="xenoRefGene"]'
+
+  - expect:
+      text: "Color track by codons"
+      noText: "Couldn't set connection database"
+  - expect: {text: "Data schema/format description and download"}