Production Down: automation scrips stuck in queued state

nested site hangfire auth is bad:

https://psu.domain.com/nestedsite/hangfire
Access to psu.domain.com was denied
You don't have authorization to view this page.
HTTP ERROR 403

restarting the app pool has not helped get the jobs back into a happy state

Hello @mmorrow

Thank you for reporting this. I understand this is affecting production and that automation jobs are remaining in the Queued state on PowerShell Universal 2026.2.5.0. I also noted that recycling the IIS application pool did not restore job processing.

To help determine whether the issue is related to the Hangfire workers, queue assignment, or the persistence layer, could you please provide the following:

Is this a single PSU server or a multi-node / agent environment?
Which database provider are you using: SQLite, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL?
Are all automation jobs affected, including both manually started scripts and scheduled jobs?
Do the affected scripts use Run On, a custom queue, or a PSU Agent?
Please provide a sanitized excerpt of the PSU system log covering the application pool restart and one subsequent attempt to start a script that remains Queued. Please retain timestamps, time zone, log level, component names, exception types, stack traces, and the event sequence.

For now, please avoid making direct database changes or performing a rollback while we review the available evidence.

I also noticed that the thread includes a PSU URL. If this represents an internal hostname or private infrastructure address, please edit the post to remove or sanitize it.

Best regards,

Is this a single PSU server or a multi-node / agent environment?

• single node

Which database provider are you using: SQLite, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL?

• sqlite

Are all automation jobs affected, including both manually started scripts and scheduled jobs?

• all jobs are down

Do the affected scripts use Run On, a custom queue, or a PSU Agent?

• runs from /admin/automation/scripts

Please provide a sanitized excerpt of the PSU system log covering the application pool restart and one subsequent attempt to start a script that remains Queued. Please retain timestamps, time zone, log level, component names, exception types, stack traces, and the event sequence.

• send me a link to upload files