retry job in pending longer than expected

Summary

Steps to reproduce

produce a failed job and set retry to 1

Example Project

any project

What is the current bug behavior?

recently, the retried job is hanged as pending without provision any runner to do it

What is the expected correct behavior?

it should create new runner and run the job properly

Possible workaround(s)

• Pausing and unpausing a runner fetches it and starts it running.
  • This was noted in an issue in the runner backlog that looks similar but may be unrelated.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Output of checks

This bug happens on GitLab.com

Results of GitLab environment info

• gitlab-runner Version 14.7.0