ensure state setting

[andre-merzky]

This fixes #3223

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Project coverage is 43.48%. Comparing base (1260818) to head (57f265f).
Report is 6 commits behind head on devel.

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[AymenFJA]

LGTM, as it fixed the behavior observed in the ticket related to this PR. Currently, the current final state of the tasks in tmgr.0000.json are:

                    "node_name": "localhost"
                }
            ],
            "state": "DONE",
            "stderr": "",
            "stderr_file": "/home/aymen/radical.pilot.sandbox/rp.session.tsp920server.aymen.019985.0001/pilot.0000/task.000008//task.000008.err",
            "stderr_file_short": "$RP_TASK_SANDBOX/task.000008.err",
            "stdout": "Thu Sep 19 03:33:11 PM UTC 2024\n",