diff --git a/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/manager.py b/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/manager.py
index 5ad3618048f13..f8435659e1fbd 100644
--- a/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/manager.py
+++ b/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/manager.py
@@ -150,6 +150,29 @@ def utc_epoch() -> datetime:
     return result
 
 
+class _StubSelector(selectors.BaseSelector):
+    """
+    Stub to stand in until the real selector is created.
+
+    This is used in DagFileProcessorManager to keep Mypy happy, and emit a
+    slightly better error message than TypeError (if None is used) if a
+    contributor accidentally initializes a selector in a wrong place in the
+    future.
+
+    Some selectors do not work well in daemon mode after fork (exact reason
+    unknown; it's CPython internal). This stub allows us to delay creating a
+    selector until after forking and work around the issue.
+    """
+
+    def __getattribute__(self, name):
+        raise RuntimeError("Selector not initialized")
+
+    def register(self, fileobj, events, data=None): ...
+    def unregister(self, fileobj): ...
+    def select(self, timeout=None): ...
+    def get_map(self): ...
+
+
 @attrs.define(kw_only=True)
 class DagFileProcessorManager(LoggingMixin):
     """
@@ -171,7 +194,7 @@ class DagFileProcessorManager(LoggingMixin):
     processor_timeout: float = attrs.field(
         factory=_config_int_factory("dag_processor", "dag_file_processor_timeout")
     )
-    selector: selectors.BaseSelector = attrs.field(factory=selectors.DefaultSelector)
+    selector: selectors.BaseSelector = attrs.field(factory=_StubSelector)
 
     _parallelism: int = attrs.field(factory=_config_int_factory("dag_processor", "parsing_processes"))
 
@@ -280,6 +303,10 @@ def run(self):
         # Related: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/57459
         os.environ["_AIRFLOW_PROCESS_CONTEXT"] = "server"
 
+        # Initialization is delayed until here to avoid fork issues in some
+        # selector implementations. Also see _StubSelector documentation.
+        self.selector = selectors.DefaultSelector()
+
         stats_factory = stats_utils.get_stats_factory(Stats)
         Stats.initialize(factory=stats_factory)
 
diff --git a/dev/breeze/doc/images/output_pr_auto-triage.txt b/dev/breeze/doc/images/output_pr_auto-triage.txt
index 6eaec4730f7a2..dc56649fa287d 100644
--- a/dev/breeze/doc/images/output_pr_auto-triage.txt
+++ b/dev/breeze/doc/images/output_pr_auto-triage.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0d5bd2391abbfd55d6aa69266177dd05
+81f90099329d48933ff6824ffbf3e2b9