I'm troubleshooting a severe problem in my Drupal 6.10 installation wherein the Modules page (admin/build/modules) shows the module categories, but fails to show anything underneath the category headers. The categories are rendered in a collapsed state, and when I (as the administrator, uid = 1) expand them, nothing appears; each category section is empty.

There is a JavaScript "doc.body is null" error when that happens.

Anyway, the problem seems to have manifested sometime very shortly after I installed the Workflow module, version 6.x-1.1, and now I'm trying to revert the module installation by, well, uninstalling it.

However, I don't see any documentation explaining how to uninstall the module.

I understand that the module makes changes to the database in many places. I would still like to have a sort of roadmap to getting to my previous working state, if at all possible, without having to start from scratch (and lose my content).

Would anyone have instructions for uninstalling the Workflow module *via commandline* in a clean manner? (Note, again, that because I can't even see the modules in admin/build/modules, I'm unable to uninstall it through the traditional procedure.)

I further understand completely that it may or may not be likely that the Workflow module is the culprit. I'm just asking for the above instructions...

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Bastlynn commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Uninstall goes by hitting the module page, unchecking the box beside the module and submitting. Since you can't even see that box, there's no viable uninstall that way. But in a site as deeply borked as yours seems to be, you may need to go to the systems table in your database directly to disable it there (change the status).

If you have no data that needs saving, I would suggest wipe and reinstall of the site, or if you can save the nodes try using Node Import to pull them in after a wipe.

Since it's been over a year since you put this ticket in, I'm going to assume you got the site sorted out at some point, and will close this ticket.