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/models/test_taskinstance.py
try:
                ti.run()
            except AirflowException:
                pass
        ti = TI(task=task, execution_date=timezone.utcnow())
        dag.create_dagrun(
            execution_date=ti.execution_date,
            state=State.RUNNING,
            run_type=DagRunType.SCHEDULED,
        )
        assert ti.try_number == 1
        
        run_with_error(ti)
        assert ti.state == State.UP_FOR_RETRY
        assert ti.try_number == 2
        
        run_with_error(ti)
        assert ti.state == State.UP_FOR_RETRY
        
        time.sleep(3)
        run_with_error(ti)
        assert ti.state == State.FAILED
    def test_retry_handling(self):