Symptoms

An issue does not get synchronized and appears in the troubleshooting section with the category 'Fallback user does not exist' and the message, e.g. 'The fallback user (username) for the user (other_user) does not exist'.

Cause

The fallback user which has been configured in a user field mapping does not exist (anymore) and thus cannot be selected as a fallback user.

Resolution

Check your user field mappings (e.g. assignee, reporter or others) where you've used the fallback user and replace it with an existing user. If you did, the following steps should be done in order to resolve this problem: