Picklist deploy resulting in "Cannot update or delete a picklist while a picklist background job is being executed" error

[petter-eikeland]

Describe the bug
"Cannot update or delete a picklist while a picklist background job is being executed" thrown upon pre picklist deployer (see screenshot below).

To Reproduce
This is an intermittent, but frequent issue (≈ 5–10% of pipeline runs). This occurs when there are multiple picklists to be deployed in the pre deployer.

Expected behavior
When getting "Cannot update or delete a picklist while a picklist background job is being executed", retry the picklist deployment.

Screenshots

Platform Details (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux
• Version [e.g. CLI Version eg: 1.6.6]: 25.5.3
• Salesforce CLI(sfdx cli) Version: sf version that is on 25.5.3
• CI Platform: Azure DevOps

[azlam-abdulsalam]

@petter-eikeland Can you create this issue in

https://github.com/flxbl-io/sfp

[petter-eikeland]

@azlam-abdulsalam No issue button though 😅 You might need to enable issues in that repo

[crazynammer]

I've enabled Issues so please go ahead @petter-eikeland.