Workflow failed to run once task overdue

Question

Hello,
We are using the OOTB Sharepoint 2010 approval workflow with a set due date (1 day) on the approval tasks.
The workflow runs normally as long as the due date is respected.  Once overdue, we get an error message "xxx failed to run" in the workflow status page.  This error does not stop the workflow process from running, however users
do not receive the overdue email alert until they have actually completed the task.  Once the task is completed and the user receives the email, they try to complete the task once more, which of course is not possible, thus creating confusion. 
For their task to be processed, we must either wait a certain (unknown) length of time or click on "Update active tasks of Approval" in the workflow status page.
We recently migrated from Sharepoint 2007 to Sharepoint 2013. The Sharepoint 2007 OOTB aproval workflows that we are still using do not have this problem, it only occurs on new workflows that we have created since the migration.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Dear Daniel,
I didn't find anything directly related to our problem. However, I noticed the following:
We have a "workflow" job that is started by the Timer Job.  We noticed that it takes over 20 minutes (it's supposed to run every 5 minutes), during this time the
following errors are repeated continuously:
SPReaderWriterLock named [SPInitializeOnceLock] held for 3719 milliseconds. Call stack:  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPReaderWriterLock.SPReaderWriterLockScope.Dispose()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.get_ReferencedAssemblies()   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.SubCompiler.AddReferenceableAssemblies(WorkflowCompilerParameters theParameters)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.SubCompiler.DoCompile(WorkflowCompilerParameters parameters, String xomlSource, String assemblyName, CompilationPacket&
packet, DirectoryInfo& tempDir) 
RunWorkflow: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: <Error><CompilerError Line="-1" Column="-1" Text="Compilation failed. Could not find file 'C:\Users\sp13_conf\AppData\Local\Temp\o33c0m45\Xoml.82bf578d_6fd8_4da0_926c_1fd0ec2475c7.2.1536.3.1536.dll'."
/></Error>   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.LoadXomlAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association, SPWeb web)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.LoadDeclarativeAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association, Boolean fallback)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.CreateInstance(SPWorkflow workflow)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeEngine.RunWorkflow(SPWorkflowHostService host, SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, TimeSpan timeOut)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowManager.RunWorkflowElev(SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, SPWorkflowRunOptionsInternal runOptions)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: <Error><CompilerError Line="-1" Column="-1" Text="Compilation failed. Could not find file 'C:\Users\sp13_conf\AppData\Local\Temp\o33c0m45\Xoml.82bf578d_6fd8_4da0_926c_1fd0ec2475c7.2.1536.3.1536.dll'."
/></Error>   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.LoadXomlAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association, SPWeb web)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.LoadDeclarativeAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association, Boolean fallback)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.CreateInstance(SPWorkflow workflow)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeEngine.RunWorkflow(SPWorkflowHostService host, SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, TimeSpan timeOut)   
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowManager.RunWorkflowElev(SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, SPWorkflowRunOptionsInternal runOptions)
We searched for the missing folder in the Temp folder, sometimes we find it, but it is empty, other times it does not exist.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Michaël