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
clear_db_jobs,
    clear_db_pools,
    clear_db_runs,
    clear_db_serialized_dags,
    clear_db_sla_miss,
    set_default_pool_slots,
)
from tests.test_utils.mock_executor import MockExecutor
from tests.test_utils.mock_operators import CustomOperator
ROOT_FOLDER = os.path.realpath(
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), os.pardir, os.pardir)
)
PERF_DAGS_FOLDER = os.path.join(ROOT_FOLDER, "tests", "test_utils", "perf", "dags")
ELASTIC_DAG_FILE = os.path.join(PERF_DAGS_FOLDER, "elastic_dag.py")
TEST_DAG_FOLDER = os.environ['AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGS_FOLDER']
DEFAULT_DATE = timezone.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
TRY_NUMBER = 1
PARSEABLE_DAG_FILE_CONTENTS = '"airflow DAG"'
UNPARSEABLE_DAG_FILE_CONTENTS = 'airflow DAG'
INVALID_DAG_WITH_DEPTH_FILE_CONTENTS = "def something():\n    return airflow_DAG\nsomething()"
TEMP_DAG_FILENAME = "temp_dag.py"
@pytest.fixture(scope="class")
def disable_load_example():
    with conf_vars({('core', 'load_examples'): 'false'}):
        with env_vars({('core', 'load_examples'): 'false'}):
            yield
@pytest.mark.usefixtures("disable_load_example")
class TestDagFileProcessor(unittest.TestCase):
    @staticmethod
    def clean_db():