# 500 Error when editing an existing post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-editing-an-existing-post/53594>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-editing-an-existing-post/53594 "2016-11-30T19:52:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-editing-an-existing-post/53594/8 "2017-12-04T21:08:53Z")

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A repro would be enormously helpful here, I can sort of tell what happened, but can not tell how the transaction hit an error state, its like there is a missing error in that log, something that happened prior to the backtrace you posted.

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