Have ExternalGeneratorFilter throw an generator specific exception [13_0]

[Dr15Jones]

PR description:

Looking at log files from failed jobs showed that the external failures at event time where all caused by the generators being run in the external process. Throwing a generator specific exception will cause cmsRun to exit with a specific code which will help evaluate failures in the production system.

PR validation:

Code compiles

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

Backport of #41073

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Dr15Jones (Chris Jones) for CMSSW_13_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• GeneratorInterface/Core (generators)

@SiewYan, @mkirsano, @Saptaparna, @cmsbuild, @alberto-sanchez, @menglu21, @GurpreetSinghChahal can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@alberto-sanchez, @mkirsano this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Have ExternalGeneratorFilter throw an generator specific exception #41073

[Dr15Jones]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-35c86b/31374/summary.html
COMMIT: e846684
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_0_X_2023-03-17-1100/el8_amd64_gcc11
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/41085/31374/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 14 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 4 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 49
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3551048
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 4
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3551022
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 48 files compared)
• Checked 213 log files, 164 edm output root files, 49 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[menglu21]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_13_0_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_13_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

backport of #41073

[perrotta]

+1