Celery node fail, on pidbox already using on restart

Jamal picture Jamal · Sep 7, 2013 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

i have celery running with rabbitmq broker. Today i have fail of celery node - it dont execute tasks and not respond on service celeryd stop command. After few repeats node stoped, but on start i get this message:

[WARNING/MainProcess] celery@nodename ready.
[WARNING/MainProcess] /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/project_1/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kombu/pidbox.py:73: UserWarning: A node named u'nodename' is already using this process mailbox!

Maybe you forgot to shutdown the other node or did not do so properly?
Or if you meant to start multiple nodes on the same host please make sure
you give each node a unique node name!

  warnings.warn(W_PIDBOX_IN_USE % {'hostname': self.hostname})

Can anyone suggest how to unlock process mailbox?

Answer

f01 picture f01 · Oct 17, 2014

From here http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/workers.html#starting-the-worker you might need to name each node uniquely. Example:

$ celery -A proj worker --loglevel=INFO --concurrency=10 -n worker1.%h

In supervisor escape by using %%h