fix(core): Prevent re-entry during workflow activation #17965
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Summary
We have a guarantee that an instance is a leader or a follower by the time we reach workflow activation, but there is a race condition where workflow activation is triggered in reaction to a leadership acquisition while regular workflow activation on bootup is ongoing.
Workflow activation logic ideally should be atomic, possibly by queuing activations, but that is a larger refactor that will need to be its own dedicated effort. For now this PR prevents re-entry to protect against the race condition.
Related Linear tickets, Github issues, and Community forum posts
https://linear.app/n8n/issue/CAT-1069
Review / Merge checklist
release/backport
(if the PR is an urgent fix that needs to be backported)