'
```
I’m not well versed with Ruby on Rails / Ruby, but it seems the user object is is not being passed / is null?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/2 "2016-05-17T21:01:32Z")
Can you repro this @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/3 "2016-05-18T07:13:34Z")
I am unable to repro this issue. Approved posts are going though just fine, and rejecting the post also works.
@vjFaLk is this issue happening for specific user? Is that user still active on your forum?
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### Author:  [@vjFaLk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vjFaLk)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/4 "2016-05-18T11:20:39Z")
None of the mods / admins (including me) are able to access the page, it seems.
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### Author:  [@vjFaLk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vjFaLk)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/5 "2016-05-19T05:46:29Z")
@techAPJ
Perhaps you can point me in the right direction with what could possibly be causing this issue?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/7 "2016-05-19T16:54:36Z")
So that means the user is deleted? If that’s the case, we should delete user’s queued posts as well.
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### Author:  [@vjFaLk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vjFaLk)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/8 "2016-05-19T17:23:43Z")
How can I find out which user is causing this issue and remove the queued posts for that user?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/9 "2016-05-19T17:30:49Z")
When you said:
> [@vjFaLk](#):
>
> None of the mods / admins (including me) are able to access the page, it seems.
Which page are you talking about? Is that user page that you are not able to access?
If you are unable to access user Admin page, then it means user is deleted and we should amend the code to delete user’s queued post to prevent this issue in future.
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I want to troubleshoot this issue first, please answer this question:
Are you unable to delete all queued posts or just queued posts for a specific user?
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### Author:  [@vjFaLk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vjFaLk)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/10 "2016-05-19T18:04:53Z")
Oh I’m sorry if I wasn’t specific enough. The page we can’t access is the one where it’s supposed to show a list of posts that are pending for approval. Refer to the image below.
[Image 2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/e/6ee2a526a31038bd5f2a1522aae96f920868b35a.png)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/12 "2016-05-19T18:15:10Z")
Okay, I see your issue now. I will try to repro this issue locally by deleting a user and verifying if the queued posts gets deleted or not.
Thanks for clarifying.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/13 "2016-05-20T10:24:55Z")
I just verified that deleting a user does delete user’s queued posts.
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@vjFaLk to resolve your issue, I pushed a fix that will not raise server error when opening “Needs Approval” page:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e2df79ee9e8d93dd1af25a0b360ddbd352ef3232](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e2df79ee9e8d93dd1af25a0b360ddbd352ef3232)
Updating your instance to latest should fix this issue.
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I am still interested in knowing how your instance got into this state, see if you see anything odd on “Needs Approval” page. A post without user sounds strange.
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### Author:  [@vjFaLk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vjFaLk)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/14 "2016-05-20T12:12:10Z")
Awesome, thanks!
> I am still interested in knowing how your instance got into this state, see if you see anything odd on “Needs Approval” page. A post without user sounds strange.
Yea, it’s strange. But, before you replied, we did a fix ourselves and removed all the queued posts without much scrutiny (all of them were spam). So, it’s a little too late for that 😅
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needs-approval-page-giving-server-error-500/44383/15 "2024-06-08T12:45:41Z")
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