Following instructions found here, I copied the script from github into /etc/init.d/celeryd, then made it executable;
$ ll /etc/init.d/celeryd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9481 Feb 19 11:27 /etc/init.d/celeryd*
I created config file /etc/default/celeryd as per instructions:
# Names of nodes to start
# most will only start one node:
#CELERYD_NODES="worker1"
# but you can also start multiple and configure settings
# for each in CELERYD_OPTS (see `celery multi --help` for examples).
CELERYD_NODES="worker1 worker2 worker3"
# Absolute or relative path to the 'celery' command:
CELERY_BIN="/usr/local/bin/celery"
#CELERY_BIN="/virtualenvs/def/bin/celery"
# App instance to use
# comment out this line if you don't use an app
#CELERY_APP="proj"
# or fully qualified:
#CELERY_APP="proj.tasks:app"
# Where to chdir at start.
CELERYD_CHDIR="/path/to/folder/containing/tasks/"
# Extra command-line arguments to the worker
CELERYD_OPTS="--time-limit=3000 --concurrency=3 --config=celeryconfig"
# %N will be replaced with the first part of the nodename.
CELERYD_LOG_FILE="/var/log/celery/%N.log"
CELERYD_PID_FILE="/var/run/celery/%N.pid"
# Workers should run as an unprivileged user.
# You need to create this user manually (or you can choose
# a user/group combination that already exists, e.g. nobody).
CELERYD_USER="celery"
CELERYD_GROUP="celery"
# If enabled pid and log directories will be created if missing,
# and owned by the userid/group configured.
CELERY_CREATE_DIRS=1
Note: I added the --config=celeryconfig part in CELERYD_OPTS.
I created a new user celery with
sudo useradd -N -M --system -s /bin/false celery
and then created group celery and added user to it:
$ id celery
uid=999(celery) gid=1005(celery) groups=1005(celery)
I used chown celery:celery for folders:
/var/run/celery/
/var/log/celery/
When I try to start the service, I get no indication of error:
$ sudo service celeryd start
celery init v10.0.
Using config script: /etc/default/celeryd
but status gives me "no pids were found":
$ sudo service celeryd status
celery init v10.0.
Using config script: /etc/default/celeryd
celeryd is stopped: no pids were found
and indeed, ps -ef gives no results and no PID file or log files are created:
$ ll /var/run/celery
total 0
drwxr-sr-x 2 celery celery 40 Feb 19 14:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 620 Feb 19 12:35 ../
$ ll /var/log/celery
total 8
drwxr-sr-x 2 celery celery 4096 Feb 19 14:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Feb 19 11:37 ../
Additional info:
$ pip freeze | grep celery
celery==3.1.9
What am I missing? Where should I be looking for more clues as to why celeryd is not starting?
I replicated your steps and it resulted in the same issue. The problem was the celery user not having a shell.
sudo useradd -N -M --system -s /bin/false celery
Changing -s /bin/false
to -s /bin/bash
fixed the issue. The reason being is that the celeryd init script uses the celery user's shell to execute celery commands. Without a shell, the su command below exits silently.
_chuid () {
su "$CELERYD_USER" -c "$CELERYD_MULTI $*"
}
I used a slightly different version of the init script, provided here:
#!/bin/sh -e
# ============================================
# celeryd - Starts the Celery worker daemon.
# ============================================
#
# :Usage: /etc/init.d/celeryd {start|stop|force-reload|restart|try-restart|status}
# :Configuration file: /etc/default/celeryd
#
# See http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/tutorials/daemonizing.html#generic-init-scripts
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: celeryd
# Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $network $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: celery task worker daemon
### END INIT INFO
#
#
# To implement separate init scripts, do NOT copy this script. Instead,
# symlink it. I.e., if my new application, "little-worker" needs an init, I
# should just use:
#
# ln -s /etc/init.d/celeryd /etc/init.d/little-worker
#
# You can then configure this by manipulating /etc/default/little-worker.
#
# If you want to have separate LSB headers in each script you can source this
# script instead of symlinking:
# # ...
# ### END INIT INFO
# source /etc/init.d/celeryd
#
# Setting `SCRIPT_NAME` here allows you to symlink/source this init script,
# making it easy to run multiple processes on the system.
SCRIPT_NAME="$(basename $0)"
DEFAULT_PID_FILE="/var/run/celery/${SCRIPT_NAME}/%n.pid"
DEFAULT_LOG_FILE="/var/log/celery/${SCRIPT_NAME}/%n.log"
DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL="INFO"
DEFAULT_NODES="celery"
DEFAULT_CELERYD="-m celery worker --detach"
CELERY_DEFAULTS=${CELERY_DEFAULTS:-"/etc/default/${SCRIPT_NAME}"}
test -f "$CELERY_DEFAULTS" && . "$CELERY_DEFAULTS"
# Sets --app argument for CELERY_BIN
CELERY_APP_ARG=""
if [ ! -z "$CELERY_APP" ]; then
CELERY_APP_ARG="--app=$CELERY_APP"
fi
# Set CELERY_CREATE_DIRS to always create log/pid dirs.
CELERY_CREATE_DIRS=${CELERY_CREATE_DIRS:-0}
CELERY_CREATE_RUNDIR=$CELERY_CREATE_DIRS
CELERY_CREATE_LOGDIR=$CELERY_CREATE_DIRS
if [ -z "$CELERYD_PID_FILE" ]; then
CELERYD_PID_FILE="$DEFAULT_PID_FILE"
CELERY_CREATE_RUNDIR=1
fi
if [ -z "$CELERYD_LOG_FILE" ]; then
CELERYD_LOG_FILE="$DEFAULT_LOG_FILE"
CELERY_CREATE_LOGDIR=1
fi
CELERYD_LOG_LEVEL=${CELERYD_LOG_LEVEL:-${CELERYD_LOGLEVEL:-$DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL}}
CELERY_BIN=${CELERY_BIN:-"celery"}
CELERYD_MULTI=${CELERYD_MULTI:-"$CELERY_BIN multi"}
CELERYD_NODES=${CELERYD_NODES:-$DEFAULT_NODES}
export CELERY_LOADER
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
CELERYD_OPTS="$CELERYD_OPTS $2"
fi
CELERYD_LOG_DIR=`dirname $CELERYD_LOG_FILE`
CELERYD_PID_DIR=`dirname $CELERYD_PID_FILE`
# Extra start-stop-daemon options, like user/group.
if [ -n "$CELERYD_USER" ]; then
DAEMON_OPTS="$DAEMON_OPTS --uid=$CELERYD_USER"
fi
if [ -n "$CELERYD_GROUP" ]; then
DAEMON_OPTS="$DAEMON_OPTS --gid=$CELERYD_GROUP"
fi
if [ -n "$CELERYD_CHDIR" ]; then
DAEMON_OPTS="$DAEMON_OPTS --workdir=$CELERYD_CHDIR"
fi
check_dev_null() {
if [ ! -c /dev/null ]; then
echo "/dev/null is not a character device!"
exit 75 # EX_TEMPFAIL
fi
}
maybe_die() {
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Exiting: $* (errno $?)"
exit 77 # EX_NOPERM
fi
}
create_default_dir() {
if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
echo "- Creating default directory: '$1'"
mkdir -p "$1"
maybe_die "Couldn't create directory $1"
echo "- Changing permissions of '$1' to 02755"
chmod 02755 "$1"
maybe_die "Couldn't change permissions for $1"
if [ -n "$CELERYD_USER" ]; then
echo "- Changing owner of '$1' to '$CELERYD_USER'"
chown "$CELERYD_USER" "$1"
maybe_die "Couldn't change owner of $1"
fi
if [ -n "$CELERYD_GROUP" ]; then
echo "- Changing group of '$1' to '$CELERYD_GROUP'"
chgrp "$CELERYD_GROUP" "$1"
maybe_die "Couldn't change group of $1"
fi
fi
}
check_paths() {
if [ $CELERY_CREATE_LOGDIR -eq 1 ]; then
create_default_dir "$CELERYD_LOG_DIR"
fi
if [ $CELERY_CREATE_RUNDIR -eq 1 ]; then
create_default_dir "$CELERYD_PID_DIR"
fi
}
create_paths() {
create_default_dir "$CELERYD_LOG_DIR"
create_default_dir "$CELERYD_PID_DIR"
}
export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/usr/sbin:/sbin"
_get_pid_files() {
[ ! -d "$CELERYD_PID_DIR" ] && return
echo `ls -1 "$CELERYD_PID_DIR"/*.pid 2> /dev/null`
}
_get_pids() {
local pid_files=
pid_files=`_get_pid_files`
[ -z "$pid_files" ] && echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} is stopped" && exit 1
for pid_file in $pid_files; do
local pid=`cat "$pid_file"`
local cleaned_pid=`echo "$pid" | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g'`
if [ -z "$pid" ] || [ "$cleaned_pid" != "$pid" ]; then
echo "bad pid file ($pid_file)"
one_failed=true
else
echo "$pid"
fi
done
}
_get_worker_pids() {
local pids=
pids=`_get_pids`
local worker_pids=
for pid in $pids; do
worker_pids=`ps h --ppid $pid -o pid`
[ "$worker_pids" ] && echo "$worker_pids" || one_failed=true
done
}
start_workers () {
if [ -z "$CELERYD_ULIMIT" ]; then
ulimit $CELERYD_ULIMIT
fi
$CELERYD_MULTI $* start $CELERYD_NODES $DAEMON_OPTS \
--pidfile="$CELERYD_PID_FILE" \
--logfile="$CELERYD_LOG_FILE" \
--loglevel="$CELERYD_LOG_LEVEL" \
$CELERY_APP_ARG \
$CELERYD_OPTS
}
dryrun () {
(C_FAKEFORK=1 start_workers --verbose)
}
stop_workers () {
$CELERYD_MULTI stopwait $CELERYD_NODES --pidfile="$CELERYD_PID_FILE"
}
restart_workers () {
$CELERYD_MULTI restart $CELERYD_NODES $DAEMON_OPTS \
--pidfile="$CELERYD_PID_FILE" \
--logfile="$CELERYD_LOG_FILE" \
--loglevel="$CELERYD_LOG_LEVEL" \
$CELERY_APP_ARG \
$CELERYD_OPTS
}
kill_workers() {
$CELERYD_MULTI kill $CELERYD_NODES --pidfile="$CELERYD_PID_FILE"
}
restart_workers_graceful () {
local worker_pids=
worker_pids=`_get_worker_pids`
[ "$one_failed" ] && exit 1
for worker_pid in $worker_pids; do
local failed=
kill -HUP $worker_pid 2> /dev/null || failed=true
if [ "$failed" ]; then
echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} worker (pid $worker_pid) could not be restarted"
one_failed=true
else
echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} worker (pid $worker_pid) received SIGHUP"
fi
done
[ "$one_failed" ] && exit 1 || exit 0
}
check_status () {
local pid_files=
pid_files=`_get_pid_files`
[ -z "$pid_files" ] && echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} not running (no pidfile)" && exit 1
local one_failed=
for pid_file in $pid_files; do
local node=`basename "$pid_file" .pid`
local pid=`cat "$pid_file"`
local cleaned_pid=`echo "$pid" | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g'`
if [ -z "$pid" ] || [ "$cleaned_pid" != "$pid" ]; then
echo "bad pid file ($pid_file)"
else
local failed=
kill -0 $pid 2> /dev/null || failed=true
if [ "$failed" ]; then
echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} (node $node) (pid $pid) is stopped, but pid file exists!"
one_failed=true
else
echo "${SCRIPT_NAME} (node $node) (pid $pid) is running..."
fi
fi
done
[ "$one_failed" ] && exit 1 || exit 0
}
case "$1" in
start)
check_dev_null
check_paths
start_workers
;;
stop)
check_dev_null
check_paths
stop_workers
;;
reload|force-reload)
echo "Use restart"
;;
status)
check_status
;;
restart)
check_dev_null
check_paths
restart_workers
;;
graceful)
check_dev_null
restart_workers_graceful
;;
kill)
check_dev_null
kill_workers
;;
dryrun)
check_dev_null
dryrun
;;
try-restart)
check_dev_null
check_paths
restart_workers
;;
create-paths)
check_dev_null
create_paths
;;
check-paths)
check_dev_null
check_paths
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${SCRIPT_NAME} {start|stop|restart|graceful|kill|dryrun|create-paths}"
exit 64 # EX_USAGE
;;
esac
exit 0
Running it with the dryrun option gave me the exact command the init was constructing.
Running that command after removing the two below options:
--detach
--logfile
allowed me to run it in console and observe the python error trace.
It ended up being I had to reinstall the redis
module (that I use as backend) by pip
I will diff the two init scripts to end up with a mixture of them.
I have experienced the same issue. Even if I had tried to run with root user, I couldn't start any worker. Then I came across this answer https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/celery-users/s8OFSdWdHo8 It basically says the user who will run workers should have a home directory.
After creating another user with a home directory, I was able to start workers.