How can remove one invalid change from dash board?

[Yingchun Li]

There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.

This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.

I’ve already tried the following steps:

Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）
Searched the server filesystem and logs for any trace of the change ID (using grep and find) — but found nothing.

The invalid link still appears in the dashboard.

It’s not a critical issue, but it’s annoying. Could you please suggest how to remove this stale link from the user’s dashboard?

Thanks in advance!

Br,

Yingchun

[Luca Milanesio]

> On 8 Dec 2025, at 08:25, Yingchun Li <sword.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.
>
> This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.
>
> I’ve already tried the following steps:
>
> Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）

Did you perform an off-line reindex?

Luca.

> Searched the server filesystem and logs for any trace of the change ID (using grep and find) — but found nothing.
>
> The invalid link still appears in the dashboard.
>
> It’s not a critical issue, but it’s annoying. Could you please suggest how to remove this stale link from the user’s dashboard?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Br,
> Yingchun
>

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[Rikard Almgren]

On Monday, 8 December 2025 at 09:25:52 UTC+1 Yingchun Li wrote:

There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.

This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.

I’ve already tried the following steps:

Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）
Searched the server filesystem and logs for any trace of the change ID (using grep and find) — but found nothing.

You can try
curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" -n https://<gerrit_instance>/a/config/server/index.changes -d '{"changes":["<change_number>"], "delete_missing": "true"}'

I feel like the full reindex should have covered this, but it is the most reliable "poke single change" I have found.

[Yingchun Li]

On Monday, December 8, 2025 at 4:58:00 PM UTC+8 Luca Milanesio wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2025, at 08:25, Yingchun Li <sword.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.
>
> This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.
>
> I’ve already tried the following steps:
>
> Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）

Did you perform an off-line reindex?

Yes, I did do the offline reindex, my server is 3.10.6. 

[Yingchun Li]

On Monday, December 8, 2025 at 4:59:16 PM UTC+8 Rikard Almgren wrote:

On Monday, 8 December 2025 at 09:25:52 UTC+1 Yingchun Li wrote:

There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.

This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.

I’ve already tried the following steps:

Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）
Searched the server filesystem and logs for any trace of the change ID (using grep and find) — but found nothing.

You can try
curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" -n https://<gerrit_instance>/a/config/server/index.changes -d '{"changes":["<change_number>"], "delete_missing": "true"}'

Thos Rest API   works, now the broken link disappear.

I feel like the full reindex should have covered this, but it is the most reliable "poke single change" I have found.

I did the offline reindex, but the link still exist.

and also did some online index like:

ssh -p 29418 localhost gerrit index changes

ssh -p 29418 localhost gerrit index start changes(this command always show the index the latest one like:
Nothing to reindex, index is already the latest version)

Thanks a lot. 

[Daniele Sassoli]

On Monday, 8 December 2025 at 09:50:49 UTC sword.l...@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, December 8, 2025 at 4:59:16 PM UTC+8 Rikard Almgren wrote:

On Monday, 8 December 2025 at 09:25:52 UTC+1 Yingchun Li wrote:

There is a broken link in one user’s dashboard under “Outgoing Reviews”. When clicking on it, Gerrit returns a 404 error, indicating that the change no longer exists.

This likely happened because I recently restored the project from a backup, which may have caused the change (or its underlying data) to be lost or become inconsistent.

I’ve already tried the following steps:

Reindexed the entire Gerrit server（and even remove the whole cache）
Searched the server filesystem and logs for any trace of the change ID (using grep and find) — but found nothing.

You can try
curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" -n https://<gerrit_instance>/a/config/server/index.changes -d '{"changes":["<change_number>"], "delete_missing": "true"}'

 

I wasn't aware of this endpoint, thanks for bringing it up, can think of a few interesting use cases for it.