Workflow failed to start

Hi,
We are having a Visual Studio 2010 workflow which is working fine in production. I made some minor changes in the code and deployed the DLL for the workflow in the test server.
The workflow is not running and throwing the below errors
1. Workflow XYZ was cancelled by System Account.
2. XYZ failed to start.
Due to these errors, I didn't deploy the changes in production. Can anyone please help on this?
Thanks,
Kunal

Hi Kunal,
To update the visual studio workflow, we need to deploy a new version of the workflow assembly and a new version of Workflow Element.xml, re-register (deactivate and then activate) the workflow Feature, and recreate or add the workflow association so that
SharePoint can connect to the new version of workflow assembly.
So the workflow Element.xml file, workflow feature and the workflow association are needed to be updated in addition to the workflow assembly.
More references:
http://sharepoint497.blogspot.com/2012/09/upgrading-or-redeploying-sharepoint.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yardman/archive/2010/04/14/versioning-a-visual-studio-sharepoint-workflow.aspx
Best regards.
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Has anyone else come across this? Or have any idea why the Software Protection Service might be sporadically failing? Maybe an Office update in the last 2-3 months?
Thanks for any info.

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