I don't believe this has occurred again since updating to 8.5 2018-12-07, if so it would suggest it was an issue with the previous version (2018-11-28).
I would like to know what BackgroundHALShouldPause does, and how to use it. While it's listed in the HAL Primitives report, it is not used in source code and it doesn't appear in the LMS HAL...