Whenever I run drush to enable any module it says:

WD actions: One orphaned action (backup_migrate_backup_action) exists[warning]
in the actions table. Remove orphaned actions

Not sure what to do about that

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senpai’s picture

senpai commented

How do you interact with your database? Command line, PHPmyAdmin, or MySQL Workbench?

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AdrianB commented

You can visit admin/settings/actions/orphan to remove them according to this comment.

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apotek commented

I'm seeing this as well.

I think the key here is to write a hook_disable() function in the migrate_backup module that would remove any of the module's actions. As it is the row remains, but is dissociated (orphaned) if I disable the backup_migrate module.

@agerson: did you ever disable backup_migrate before running into this error?

I might add that this problem occurs even with the latest release (Oct 16, 2010).

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apotek commented

@agerson: if you can verify if this only started happening post-disabling the module, I'll write a patch.

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ergophobe commented

I can verify that this happened but all I did was go to

/admin/settings/actions/orphan

as mentioned by Adrian and it sorted it right out. VBO was not the only module that left orphans (comment did too).

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j2parker commented

$ drush dis captcha
The following projects will be disabled: captcha, image_captcha
Do you really want to continue? (y/n): y
WD actions: One orphaned action (backup_migrate_backup_action) exists in the actions table. Remove orphaned actions [warning]

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damaddhacker commented
Issue tags: +orphaned actions

Drupal 6 - Drush warning about orphaned actions
When I was executing drush commands, I got a warning similar to this:

The following extensions will be disabled: location
Do you really want to continue? (y/n): y
WD actions: 3 orphaned actions (og_remove_groups_action,
og_make_public_action, og_make_private_action) exist in the actions
table. Remove orphaned actions
location was disabled successfully.

Solution is to use a badly-documented Drupal feature which automatically removes all orphaned actions. Simply visit the following hidden URL on your drupal site: yoursite.com/admin/settings/actions/orphan, and it will remove any orphaned actions and forward you to the Manage Actions page, where you will see they are no longer listed!

REFERENCES
https://drupal.org/node/445922#comment-2977526

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suffusionofyellow commented

or do
drush ev "actions_synchronize(array(),true);"

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chrisarusso commented

It's actually drush php-eval "actions_synchronize(actions_list(), TRUE);"
for 7 per this comment:
https://drupal.org/node/445922#comment-3738188

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dgorton commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Yep - not well documented. Also not specific to B&M. Per many of the comments, solution is to visit http://yourwebsite.com/admin/settings/actions/orphan

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alamp commented
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+1 Vote up for #10

My error is as follows (Drupal 7.27)

May  5 18:22:59 x[7952] <Info>: http://default|1399310579|actions|127.0.0.1|http://default/index.php||0||1 orphaned actions (certificate_reset_certificates_action) exist in the actions table. Remove orphaned actions

According to this comment,
If you click the link http://yourwebsite.com/admin/settings/actions/orphan,
Drupal system will automatically remove orphaned actions.