Workflow problem in Fork parallel steps

Hi Friends,

I have a background step in workflow which may not come out after execution and goes to dump in background but, still the status of the step shows 'In process'.

I still want to process my workflow. So, I have done as below

Created a Fork step with 2 parallel branches.

1st branch will have the actual background step and 2nd branch has a background task to wait for 10 secs.

When I process the fork step as usual 1st task in background is not executed and status shows 'In process' but, 2nd step has status 'Ready'. It is not processed even though it is a background task.

Please suggest.