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Desktop flows queued without running

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Posted on by mbenyishay 77

For the last day or so I've had a bunch of both scheduled and instant cloud flows that call desktop flows queue and then never run. I eventually got email notifications that they timed out in the queue (which had never been an issue before). But even the first flow in the queue doesn't seem to switch to "running" status.

Could this be something on our end? On Microsoft's end...?

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    mbenyishay 77 on at

    OK! A restart of the Virtual Machine on which these unattended Desktop Flows were running did the trick 🙂

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    jasonzh1 4 on at

    i was also able to resolve this by restarting the VM. I do however want to know root cause of this as we don't know when we need to restart the VM. Restarting a VM when the flow is running something business critical isn't ideal.

    i've previously had 'reuse session' enabled and I wonder if this was the issue. The machine might had an active session running a process that never finished so the new processes got queued. 

     

     

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