i just ran into this bug; the title is a bit innocuous. may i suggest something more like "Parents deleted due to

refresh

corrupt pulumi state file"? https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3583

Updated the title as you suggest. You are right this definitely should not happen.

i had to

--disable-integrity-checking

to get the state to even export to patch! it made me worried. 😬