Scheduler execution gets over/stopped before specified time - jmeter

We are running Jmeter scripts in Scheduler mode for 1 hour (Master - 4 Slave machines), however the execution gets over/stopped before 1 hour time (ex: it stops in 40 mints).
Below is the setup: Jmeter version 5.1
Thread Group: Scheduler checked with Duration 1 hour, Forever is selected.
CSV config: Recycle EOF is set to True, Stop thread on EOF is set to False. The CSV is having 20 rows and these rows data has been used/fetched multiple times during 40 mints.
--HTTP Sampler
Tried multiple times with different duration, still the same issue. No errors logged in jmeter.log file.
Referred below resource as well:
JMeter ignore Duration time when using Scheduler
Please suggest to make it to work for complete specified duration.

Unfortunately we're not telepathic enough to guess what's wrong without seeing jmeter.log file from the master machine and jmeter-server.log files from the slaves, the answer should be either in these or in the .jtl results file.
Your test configuration looks very good, just check 3 points:
make sure that the OS time is synchronised on all the slaves and the master
Copy your CSV file to all the slaves
None of Stop Thread/Stop Test/Stop Test Now radiobuttons in the Thread Group are checked
Also be informed that according to 9 Easy Solutions for a JMeter Load Test “Out of Memory” Failure article you should always be using the latest version of JMeter so consider upgrading to JMeter 5.2.1 (or whatever is the latest stable JMeter version available at JMeter Downloads page) on next available opportunity as it might be the case you're suffering from a form of a bug which has been already fixed.

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The test relies on a JMeter Plugin which is not installed
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I guess you probably found the answer - but maybe this response will be useful to someone.
I've been battling a similar issue -> locally all was working fine (in GUI and non-GUI mode), but as soon as I tried to run the jmx on the server I could see it would start threads, all logs seemed normal (standard info logs within jmeter.log at start) but still no requests were actually made (confirmed by observing logs from the target server). I tried running trace logs but still nothing out of the ordinary - I could see proper HTTP config, threads were as if normal... But the generated jtl file only contained a header and no requests actually were made.
After some hair pulling I finally found my issue - I'm using variables for threads, rampup and loop which I invoke using ${__P(threads,)} syntax and when running the non-GUI load test I pass those with -J to the command line (f.ex. jmeter -Jthreads=50 ...)
I didn't pass the loop parameter since I figured it would just default to 1 (and that is also the impression I get when looking at the logs where I see all thread started ... entries) - turns out for some reason it will log, but won't execute anything actually till I pass a value for that loop.
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I am running into the following strange issue.
Issue In Distributed testing results folders are created per user or thread.
Test has been executed from master machine with One Slave machine.
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Actual Results 4 Results has been created. 2 of folders has Aggregate Report and ViewTree results files. 2 of folders has just ViewTable Results files.
Expected Results Supposed to be created just One folder with Aggregate Report,View Tree and View Table results files.
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Below are the screenshots of Master and Slave machine settings.
Below screenshot shows the configuration of Master Machine
Below screenshot shows the configuration of Slave Machine
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Simply don't use JMeter Listeners for anything but tests development and debugging. When it comes to running your test make sure you have any listeners deleted from the test plan (or at least disabled) as they are don't add any value, the only thing they do is consuming your JMeter load generators resources.
Just run your test in command-line non-GUI mode like:
jmeter -n -t test.jmx -R slave1, slave2, slave3 -l result.jtl
Once your test will be finished you will either be able to open this result.jtl file with the listener of your choice or generate HTML Reporting Dashboard out of it.
See Remote Testing User Manual chapter for more details.

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