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Error Communicating With the Emulator

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Hi Everybody,

 

I am having trouble with the error below.   I did some Windows updates on a server and updated Power Automate Desktop to the current version 6/13/22 and started to see the error.

 

Error communicating with the emulator

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.: Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.SDK.ActionException: Error communicating with the emulator ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.TerminalEmulation.Actions.HLLAPISessionFacadeToVariant..ctor(String path, String sessionId, Boolean isEnhanced)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.TerminalEmulation.Actions.TerminalEmulationActions.OpenTerminalSession(Variant installationPath, Variant dllPath, Variant sessionName, Variant profile, Variant host, Variant port, Variant& session, Int32 provider, Int32 configuration, Int32 hostType, Boolean attach)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.TerminalEmulation.Actions.OpenTerminalSession.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

 

I can see that the terminal session opens but it doesn't seem to be recognized.   What would effect or change this?

 

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Thanks in advance for all your help!

 

Dave

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