Title: Recurring Fatal Errors reported by WordPress
Last modified: December 24, 2025

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# Recurring Fatal Errors reported by WordPress

 *  Resolved [Floris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/)
 * (@florismk)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/)
 * For about a week now, WordPress keeps reporting Fatal Errors from Imagify, approximately
   every 30-48 hours. The error details are below, but the essence seems to be that
   the wp_actionscheduler_actions table doesn’t exist. I’ve checked the database,
   and indeed it doesn’t. But it wasn’t dropped recently, so I don’t understand 
   why this error should suddenly be thrown now?
 * As far as I can tell from Google, the actionscheduler tables are related to the
   WooCommerce Action Scheduler, and this site does not use WooCommerce at all. 
   And I have another site that uses Imagify, doesn’t use WooCommerce, and doesn’t
   throw this error.
 *     ```wp-block-code
       Error Details=============An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 1016 of the file /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/data-stores/ActionScheduler_DBStore.php. Error message: Uncaught RuntimeException: Unable to claim actions. Database error: Table 'dbs12768442.wp_actionscheduler_actions' doesn't exist. in /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/data-stores/ActionScheduler_DBStore.php:1016Stack trace:#0 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/data-stores/ActionScheduler_DBStore.php(861): ActionScheduler_DBStore->claim_actions()#1 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/data-stores/ActionScheduler_HybridStore.php(253): ActionScheduler_DBStore->stake_claim()#2 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/ActionScheduler_QueueRunner.php(179): ActionScheduler_HybridStore->stake_claim()#3 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-content/plugins/imagify/inc/Dependencies/ActionScheduler/classes/ActionScheduler_QueueRunner.php(158): ActionScheduler_QueueRunner->do_batch()#4 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(341): ActionScheduler_QueueRunner->run()#5 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(365): WP_Hook->apply_filters()#6 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(570): WP_Hook->do_action()#7 /mnt/web003/e2/70/511363570/htdocs/villadiodati.com/wp-cron.php(191): do_action_ref_array()#8 {main}  thrown
       ```
   
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 *  Plugin Support [Saransh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saranshwpm/)
 * (@saranshwpm)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/#post-18766566)
 * Hi [@florismk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/),
 * Thank you for sharing the details and logs.
 * The error you’re seeing is related to the Action Scheduler library, which is 
   used by several WordPress plugins including Imagify. However, even though the
   logs reference the version bundled with Imagify, the issue may not necessarily
   be caused by Imagify itself.
 * WordPress loads only one instance of the Action Scheduler—usually from the first
   plugin that requests it—so if other plugins (like WP Rocket and not necessarily
   WooCommerce) also use Action Scheduler, the actual origin of the error can be
   hard to pinpoint.
 * What you encountered seems to match a known open issue in Action Scheduler:
   [https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/issues/970](https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/issues/970)
 * We’ve seen this happen occasionally in other plugins too, and in most cases, 
   it resolves after restarting the database.
 * That said, if the issue reappears frequently, we recommend reviewing any overlapping
   scheduled tasks or reaching out to your host to monitor DB-level locks or contention.
 * Best regards,
   The Imagify Team
 *  Thread Starter [Floris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/)
 * (@florismk)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/#post-18766692)
 * Thanks team! Just to clarify: Are you sure this is a similar issue? Like I said,
   the actionscheduler tables are not present in the WP database, and that’s the
   problem reported in the error. Shouldn’t those tables be present, if Imagify 
   uses the Action Scheduler library?
 *  Thread Starter [Floris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/)
 * (@florismk)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/#post-18767709)
 * Additional info and question: The 2nd site that doesn’t have the actionscheduler
   tables also started throwing the error. Same cause reported by the trace: actionscheduler
   tables missing.
 * Since nothing changed to the database last week, there must have been some change
   in the plugin that triggered the error, I’d expect. Has Imagify started using
   the Action Scheduler, or changed its use of it, in a recent update?
 * I understand that the AS can be used by several plugins. However, given that 
   the error was not thrown at all until recently, and is now thrown with Imagify
   as the reported source, it seems plausible to me that Imagify is indeed triggering
   the error.
 * Especially since, as I already mentioned twice, the AS tables are missing. There
   weren’t suddenly dropped recently. So any plugin using the AS should have been
   causing this error.
 *  Thread Starter [Floris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/)
 * (@florismk)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/#post-18767712)
 * I’ve since been able to restore the missing tables by going to the Scheduled 
   Actions admin page. WP reported the missing tables there, and successfully attempted
   to restore them. I expect the error to disappear now; will report back.
 *  Plugin Support [Saransh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saranshwpm/)
 * (@saranshwpm)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recurring-fatal-errors-reported-by-wordpress/#post-18769364)
 * Hi [@florismk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florismk/),
 * Thank you for your patience, and apologies for the delay due to the holidays.
 * Imagify did update the AS version in a previous release back in May, and there
   haven’t been any recent changes that would explain this issue now. Based on that,
   the solution you tried should be the correct one.
 * If you run into any further issues or need help with anything else, please feel
   free to open a new thread and we’ll be glad to assist.
 * Best regards

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