There is a fundamental design problem of the "manager" and the "wait
group".
If nothing has started, the "Wait" just panics: sync: WaitGroup is
reused before previous Wait has returned
There is no clear solution besides a complete rewriting of the "manager"
If there are some mistakes in the app.ini, end users would just see the
"panic", but not the real error messages. A real case: #27643
This PR is just a quick fix for the annoying panic problem.
(cherry picked from commit 90a3f2d4b7ed3890d9655c0334444f86d89b7b30)