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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.xfail.docent.yaml src/hg/utils/docent/tests/regress/rm38272.xfail.docent.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bdf545e80e..00000000000
--- src/hg/utils/docent/tests/regress/rm38272.xfail.docent.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# #38272 -- hgTrackUi tries a MySQL connect to a quickLifted GenArk source assembly.
-#
-# THIS IS AN XFAIL, and it is NOT a copy of rm37388. That script covers hgc, where the fix
-# landed and works. This one drives the OTHER page reached from the same lifted track, its
-# track-settings page, which still does what #37388 described:
-#
-#     Warning/Error(s):
-#     Couldn't set connection database to GCA_018466835.2
-#     mySQL error 1049: Unknown database 'GCA_018466835.2'
-#
-# Measured 2026-09-05 on genome-test, v503, from session braney/crash1: follow the lifted
-# RefSeq mRNAs track's own settings link and the page comes back 451 characters long, with
-# that warning box, the track name, a display-mode row, "Remove from QuickLift" -- and
-# nothing else. Same error string as #37388, different CGI.
-#
-# #37388 is Closed and out on the RR, so nobody is watching this. Its fix was per-CGI:
-# 921a40c472e guarded the one call in hgc (hgc.c:4984, `!trackHubDatabase(liftDb) &&
-# !isGenArk(liftDb)` before hAllocConnTrack) and the branch in getTrackHtml. hgTrackUi has
-# a path of its own that was never guarded -- specificUi() (hgTrackUi.c:3432) reassigns
-#
-#     char *liftDb = cloneString(trackDbSetting(tdb, "quickLiftDb"));
-#     if (liftDb != NULL)
-#         db = liftDb;
-#
-# and hands that db to cfgByCfgType(), labelCfgUi() and extraUiLinks(), which connect to it.
-# Where the page stops fits: specificUi() is called at :4202, after the "Remove from
-# QuickLift" link at :4118, and that is the last thing the 451 characters contain.
-#
-# This is NOT the reason rm37389.xfail's description is missing. That is hgc, a separate
-# CGI on a separate path, and its page renders in full with no warning at all.
-#
-# Filed as #38272 on 2026-09-05, Medium, In Progress. 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 -- and it is
-# live on genome.ucsc.edu, hgwbeta and genome-test alike. The script that checks any of the
-# three 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.
-#
-# The script asserts the fixed behavior -- no MySQL warning, and the settings page really
-# rendered -- so it passes as soon as this is fixed, and `make test` then reports the xfail
-# as a failure, which is the signal to rename it and drop the .xfail.
-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: "RefSeq mRNAs Track Settings"
-      noText: "Couldn't set connection database"