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 (December 23)
• Salesforce CLI(sfdx cli) Version: sf version that is on 25.5.3
• CI Platform: Azure DevOps

[azlam-abdulsalam]

@Rocko1204 can you have a look

[Rocko1204]

Hi @petter-eikeland Also for you the info . The picklist background job is a known Salesforce error that can also occur in the install and build jobs. So I can't guarantee whether 3 minutes (6 retries a 30 seconds) is enough. In my tests, 10 seconds wasn't enough. But more runs doesn't make sense at first. So we should start with this settings.

[petter-eikeland]

Sounds good! If the picklist background job is still running after 3 minutes, then it is more a Salesforce issue, than a deployment issue. Thank you for following this up swiftly @Rocko1204 😄

[dschibster]

Are one or more of your picklists dependent on one another? This is the issue that made it obvious to me. I handled it by making the deployment of the dependencies a separate step inside the post-folders, while only keeping the values in my package. That resolved the issue for me mostly.