How to trace unexpected changes in issue types?

[Pascal Rieux]

Hi,

On JIRA 6.4.6, we are currently facing a situation where a default issue type name is unexpectidly changed to another (and existing) issue type name. After having activated TRACE logging on the {{com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin}} package, nothing appeared in the logs.

Is there any way to find from where (add-on? automation? other?) this change comes from?

Note that, be it on the database side or from the REST API, everything looks fine, names are kept unchanged.

This problem "only" appears on the GUI of JIRA, admin, issue filters, etc.

Thanks!

[Pascal Rieux]

Hi Nic,

Thanks for your quick answer. Nothing (no action from another admin) is shown in admin logs plus when trying to manually set the "Bug" issue type to "Customer Bug" it leads to an error (and I have full admin rights). Not to say it seems to be impossible as an admin.

When such an issue happens, it impacts filters or searches of all users (searching for "issuetype=Bug" leads to 0 issue), but displaying a single issue is ok (the correct issue type is shown)

Pascal

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

So you're saying something is renaming the issue type?  Not translating it or mapping it, but physically changing it?

What's the error when you are trying to rename Bug to customer bug?

[Pascal Rieux]

Right, no translation or mapping, it looks like a simple renaming. When I try to replay a similar change through the GUI (authenticated as an admin), I reach the following error message:

An issue type with this name already exists.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ok, so you already have something called "customer bug".  Can you try a rename to "freds bug" or something different?

[Pascal Rieux]

I tried this also but it is leading to a rename to "Customer Bug" again. To note, in an issue type Scheme, this issue type is always shown as "Bug".

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I'm sorry, I don't understand "leading to a rename to".  When you change the name of the "customer bug" and change it to "fred", what exactly happens when you click save?

[Pascal Rieux]

When I modify the wrong "Customer Bug" issue type (the one that should be "Bug", having the ID=1) to e.g. "Fred", after clicking save, it is indeed changed, but a while later if I refresh the issue type page, it is changed again to "Customer Bug".

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Right, so there's actually nothing wrong with the renaming.

Your problem is something else renaming it back later.  You'll need to check through your addons and services to see what is doing this.

[Pascal Rieux]

Right, this is the track we will follow next, some add-ons were added recently (including Script Runner, btw )

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It would be easy to write a script that changes the name of an issue.  Might be harder to hide it from the audit log, but that should be possible too.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sounds like someone has set up a "translation" of some sort.

I'd check the admin audit log to see if someone is messing with the issue type definitions, but also, work through exact cases - where is it displaying correctly and incorrectly?  Is it by user?