Workflow not completing

Dears,
I have some of the old workflow instances which I can see all the workitems are completed, but the parent workitem (workflow item) is not completed. The showing status as 'STARTED'. is there any report / note to correct this error?
with regards,
Sudhahar R.

Dear Rick,
As I said earlier The workflow log is shown till the end all the workitems in completed status. But I guess in workflow definition some strange things happened. In the graphical workflow log, I'm not seeing the end workflow activity. that's why may be the ending of workflow not happening even though all other items are completed properly. I think I need to come up with some custom program to complete these workflows as the number is huge.
Thanks anyway...
With regards,
Sudhahar R.

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