invoke-ai/InvokeAI · error · HTTPException

Failed to remove image from board

Error message

Failed to remove image from board

What it means

HTTP 500 raised by the DELETE /board_images/ endpoint when an unexpected exception escapes the board-image removal flow. The API wraps all non-HTTP exceptions from ApiDependencies.invoker.services.board_images.remove_image_from_board into a generic 500, so the real cause (DB error, service crash) is hidden in server logs.

Source

Thrown at invokeai/app/api/routers/board_images.py:226

            outcome = _remove_from_board_and_classify(image_name, old_board_id)
            if outcome is _ScopedRemoveOutcome.REMOVED:
                removed_images.add(image_name)
                affected_boards.add("none")
                affected_boards.add(old_board_id)
            elif outcome is _ScopedRemoveOutcome.MOVED:
                failed_images.add(image_name)
            # GONE lands in neither list, matching the batch route's treatment of a name that
            # vanished mid-flight; the client's refetches surface the deletion.
        return RemoveImagesFromBoardResult(
            removed_images=list(removed_images),
            failed_images=list(failed_images),
            affected_boards=list(affected_boards),
        )

    except HTTPException:
        raise
    except Exception:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail="Failed to remove image from board")


@board_images_router.post(
    "/batch",
    operation_id="add_images_to_board",
    responses={
        201: {"description": "Images were added to board successfully"},
    },
    status_code=201,
    response_model=AddImagesToBoardResult,
)
def add_images_to_board(
    current_user: CurrentUserOrDefault,
    board_id: str = Body(description="The id of the board to add to"),
    image_names: list[ImageName] = Body(
        description="The names of the images to add", embed=True, max_length=MAX_IMAGE_BATCH_SIZE
    ),
) -> AddImagesToBoardResult:

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Solutions

1. Check the server terminal logs for the underlying exception printed just before this 500
2. Verify the image_name exists (GET the image or list board images) before deleting
3. Confirm the database file/connection is healthy (permissions on invokeai.db, Postgres reachable)
4. Retry the delete; if the image was already removed, the failure is benign
5. Upgrade InvokeAI — several board_images race-condition bugs were fixed in later releases

Example fix

// before
await axios.delete(`/board_images/${imageName}/${boardId}`);
// after
try {
  await axios.delete(`/board_images/${imageName}/${boardId}`);
} catch (e) {
  if (e.response?.status === 500) console.error('check server logs for underlying cause', imageName);
  throw e;
}

const img = await api.get(`/images/${imageName}/metadata`).catch(() => null);
if (!img) console.warn('image already gone; skip removal');

const isHttpError = (e) => e && typeof e === 'object' && 'response' in e && e.response?.status !== undefined;

try {
  await api.delete(`/board_images/${imageName}/${boardId}`);
} catch (e) {
  if (e.response?.status === 500) {
    console.error('remove_image failed; inspect server logs for root cause', { imageName, boardId });
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: DELETE /board_images/{image_name}/{board_id} where the image service throws while deleting the board-image association row — e.g. SQLite/Postgres connection failure, image_name not found mid-delete, or an internal service exception other than a known HTTPException.

Common situations: Database locked/corrupted SQLite file, stale image_name after gallery pruning, concurrent deletion of the same image, or an InvokeAI service dependency not initialized (rare misconfigured install).

Related errors

• Failed to add images to board
• Failed to remove images from board
• Failed to create board
• Failed to get intermediates
• Failed to delete images

AI-assisted analysis of invoke-ai/InvokeAI@0b6a024f2f (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c6aa4c3120716cdd. Report an issue: GitHub.