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The following discussion from !1 (merged) should be addressed:

• @rjhunter started a discussion: (+18 comments)

  @olupton and I made some progress on assessing where the Z \rightarrow \mu\mu issue is coming from.

  First of all, the control flow of this tool is like so:

  trigger_node = CompositeNode(
      'trigger_node',
      combineLogic=NodeLogic.NONLAZY_AND,
      children=[
          top_cf_node, et,
          #top_cf_node,
          mc_unpackers()["MCParticles"],
          mc_unpackers()["MCVertices"], mcdtt
      ],
      forceOrder=True)

  If et (an instance of an EventTuple algorithm) is included, all decay modes work except Z \rightarrow \mu\mu, which seg faults as TupleToolTrigger is trying to write the tree. If et is not included, all decays would fail at the 2nd, perhaps 5th event, complaining that they couldn't find the DecReports. This was strange since the code that allows them to find the DecReports was the first thing we did when we started writing this tool.

  The fact that it wasn't straight away the first event lead Olli to wonder if the GEC was involved, and indeed we saw that for 1 event the GEC was throwing away, the ExecutionReportsWriter wasn't called, and therefore there were no DecReports for that event. We verified this by asking the NoBiasLine to accept everything, and amazingly everything worked for all decays.

  We then also saw that everything works now, for all decays, if et is not in the control flow as well.

  But this begs the question, if MCDecayTreeTuple was properly declaring its dependencies to the ExecutionReportsWriter, then shouldn't ExecutionReportsWriter be called for every event? So we looked in the debug output of the HLTControlFlowMgr and saw that indeed, MCDecayTreeTuple is not declaring any dependencies, whereas EventTuple is declaring its dependency to ExecutionReportsWriter.

  So the question is now, why doesn't MCDecayTreeTuple declare its dependencies properly, but EventTuple does? They seem to both inherit from GaudiTupleAlg in the end. I don't know enough about how the scheduler works to be able to find out where it works out the dependencies. @rmatev @nnolte any ideas how I can look for this?