The test fails quite regularly - usually in one of many jobs:

Example


https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/12850/checks?check_run_id=1506517544

```
______________ TestSchedulerJob.test_scheduler_task_start_date ________________

self = <tests.jobs.test_scheduler_job.TestSchedulerJob testMethod=test_scheduler_task_start_date>

    def test_scheduler_task_start_date(self):
        """
        Test that the scheduler respects task start dates that are different from DAG start dates
        """
    
        dagbag = DagBag(dag_folder=os.path.join(settings.DAGS_FOLDER, "no_dags.py"), include_examples=False)
        dag_id = 'test_task_start_date_scheduling'
        dag = self.dagbag.get_dag(dag_id)
        dag.is_paused_upon_creation = False
        dagbag.bag_dag(dag=dag, root_dag=dag)
    
        # Deactivate other dags in this file so the scheduler doesn't waste time processing them
        other_dag = self.dagbag.get_dag('test_start_date_scheduling')
        other_dag.is_paused_upon_creation = True
        dagbag.bag_dag(dag=other_dag, root_dag=other_dag)
    
        dagbag.sync_to_db()
    
        scheduler = SchedulerJob(executor=self.null_exec, subdir=dag.fileloc, num_runs=2)
        scheduler.run()
    
        session = settings.Session()
        tiq = session.query(TaskInstance).filter(TaskInstance.dag_id == dag_id)
        ti1s = tiq.filter(TaskInstance.task_id == 'dummy1').all()
        ti2s = tiq.filter(TaskInstance.task_id == 'dummy2').all()
        self.assertEqual(len(ti1s), 0)
>       self.assertEqual(len(ti2s), 2)
E       AssertionError: 1 != 2

tests/jobs/test_scheduler_job.py:2415: AssertionError


```

tests/jobs/test_scheduler_job.py
from parameterized import parameterized
from sqlalchemy import func
import airflow.example_dags
import airflow.smart_sensor_dags
from airflow import settings
from airflow.configuration import conf
from airflow.exceptions import AirflowException
from airflow.executors.base_executor import BaseExecutor
from airflow.jobs.backfill_job import BackfillJob
from airflow.jobs.scheduler_job import DagFileProcessor, SchedulerJob
from airflow.models import DAG, DagBag, DagModel, Pool, SlaMiss, TaskInstance, errors
from airflow.models.dagrun import DagRun
from airflow.models.serialized_dag import SerializedDagModel
from airflow.models.taskinstance import SimpleTaskInstance, TaskInstanceKey
from airflow.operators.bash import BashOperator
from airflow.operators.dummy import DummyOperator
from airflow.serialization.serialized_objects import SerializedDAG
from airflow.utils import timezone
from airflow.utils.callback_requests import DagCallbackRequest, TaskCallbackRequest
from airflow.utils.dag_processing import DagFileProcessorAgent
from airflow.utils.dates import days_ago
from airflow.utils.file import list_py_file_paths
from airflow.utils.session import create_session, provide_session
from airflow.utils.state import State
from airflow.utils.types import DagRunType
from tests.test_utils.asserts import assert_queries_count
from tests.test_utils.config import conf_vars, env_vars
from tests.test_utils.db import (
    clear_db_dags,
    clear_db_import_errors,