Change Sonic to use ExternalFailure exception

[Dr15Jones]

PR description:

Using the new exception type will make cmsRun return a more meaningful return value (which is what most code which launch cmsRun use to classify failures).

PR validation:

Code compiles.

[Dr15Jones]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-43274/37681

• This PR adds an extra 16KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

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

It involves the following packages:

• HeterogeneousCore/SonicCore (heterogeneous)

@fwyzard, @makortel can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@missirol, @makortel, @riga, @kpedro88, @rovere this is something you requested to watch as well.
@sextonkennedy, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

[makortel]

@cmsbuild, please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-0aca83/35813/summary.html
COMMIT: 42e3364
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_0_X_2023-11-14-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/43274/35813/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 298 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 16 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3363028
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1397
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3361609
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 214 log files, 167 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[makortel]

Comparison differences are related to #39803

[makortel]

+heterogeneous

[cmsbuild]

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

[makortel]

@cms-sw/orp-l2 Could this PR be merged? Thanks!

[antoniovilela]

+1