[14_1_X] o2oRun_SiStripDCS email warning fix

[JanChyczynski]

PR description:

Backport of #45977

This fixes an error encountered when testing moving SiStripDetVOff_prompt O2O from CMSSW_11_0_1 to 14_0_15_patch1. A copy of SiStripDetVOff_prompt - SiStripDetVOff_prompt_test was run for the tests and when it was failing it was trying to send a warning email which caused an exception. The exception's cause is providing a bytes object where str was expected.

PR validation:

Tested by running SiStripDetVOff_prompt_test on CMSSW_14_0_15_patch1 with local changes (this PR's fix). The O2O was failing when testing providing the certificate for T0 API access (see #45779) - setting TIER0_API_URL=https://cmsweb-preprod.cern.ch/t0wmadatasvc/prod/ (which requires the cert) but not setting X509_USER_CERT. An O2O failure in this test scenario is expected (no cert provided) but it shouldn't cause an error with the email warning and this PR fixes the email error.

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Backport of #45977

FYI @p-masterson @perrotta @PonIlya

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @JanChyczynski for CMSSW_14_1_X.

It involves the following packages:

• CondTools/SiStrip (db)

@cmsbuild, @consuegs, @francescobrivio, @perrotta, @saumyaphor4252 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@JanChyczynski, @PonIlya, @VinInn, @mmusich, @rsreds, @yuanchao this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from o2oRun_SiStripDCS email warning fix #45977

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[perrotta]

backport of #45977

[perrotta]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 16KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-fcd077/41456/summary.html
COMMIT: 1ab62b2
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_1_X_2024-09-11-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/45978/41456/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 5 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 6 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 44
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3328595
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3328572
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 43 files compared)
• Checked 191 log files, 161 edm output root files, 44 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[perrotta]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_1_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_14_2_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[perrotta]

type bug

[mandrenguyen]

+1