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
dag2.sync_to_db(session=session)
        ti1 = TaskInstance(task1, DEFAULT_DATE)
        ti1.state = State.QUEUED
        session.merge(ti1)
        session.commit()
        executor.event_buffer[ti1.key] = State.FAILED, None
        scheduler._process_executor_events(session=session)
        ti1.refresh_from_db()
        assert ti1.state == State.QUEUED
        mock_task_callback.assert_called_once_with(
            full_filepath='/test_path1/',
            simple_task_instance=mock.ANY,
            msg='Executor reports task instance '
            '<TaskInstance: test_process_executor_events.dummy_task 2016-01-01 00:00:00+00:00 [queued]> '
            'finished (failed) although the task says its queued. (Info: None) '
            'Was the task killed externally?',
        )
        scheduler.processor_agent.send_callback_to_execute.assert_called_once_with(task_callback)
        scheduler.processor_agent.reset_mock()
        
        ti1.state = State.SUCCESS
        session.merge(ti1)
        session.commit()
        executor.event_buffer[ti1.key] = State.SUCCESS, None
        scheduler._process_executor_events(session=session)
        ti1.refresh_from_db()
        assert ti1.state == State.SUCCESS
        scheduler.processor_agent.send_callback_to_execute.assert_not_called()
        mock_stats_incr.assert_called_once_with('scheduler.tasks.killed_externally')
    def test_process_executor_events_uses_inmemory_try_number(self):