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Celery task hangs after calling .delay() in Django

While calling the .delay() method of an imported task from a django application, the process gets stuck and the request is never completed.
We also don't get any error on the console.
Setting up a set_trace() with pdb results in the same thing.
The following questions were reviewed which didn't help resolve the issue:
Calling celery task hangs for delay and apply_async
celery .delay hangs (recent, not an auth problem)
Eg.:
backend/settings.py
CELERY_BROKER_URL = os.environ.get("CELERY_BROKER", RABBIT_URL)
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = os.environ.get("CELERY_BROKER", RABBIT_URL)
backend/celery.py
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
import os
from celery import Celery
# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'backend.settings')
app = Celery('backend')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
# Load task modules from all registered Django app configs.
app.autodiscover_tasks()
#app.task(bind=True)
def debug_task(self):
print('Request: {0!r}'.format(self.request))
app/tasks.py
import time
from celery import shared_task
#shared_task
def upload_file(request_id):
time.sleep(request_id)
return True
app/views.py
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from .tasks import upload_file
class UploadCreateAPIView(APIView):
# other methods...
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
id = request.data.get("id", None)
# business logic ...
print("Going to submit task.")
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
upload_file.delay(id) # <- this hangs the runserver as well as the set_trace()
print("Submitted task.")

The issue was with the setup of the celery application with Django. We need to make sure that the celery app is imported and initialized in the following file:
backend\__init__.py
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
# This will make sure the app is always imported when
# Django starts so that shared_task will use this app.
from .celery import app as celery_app
__all__ = ('celery_app',)

I've run into this issue that Celery calls through delay or apply_async may randomly hang the program indefinitely. I tried the all broker_transport_options and retry_policy options to let Celery to recover, but it still happens. Then I found this solution to enforce an execution time limit for an execution block/function by using underlying Python signal handlers.
#contextmanager
def time_limit(seconds):
def signal_handler(signum, frame):
raise TimeoutException("Timed out!")
signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, signal_handler)
signal.alarm(seconds)
try:
yield
finally:
signal.alarm(0)
def my_function():
with time_limit(3):
celery_call.apply_sync(kwargs={"k1", "v1"}, expires=30)

Celery task not run at the specified time

I created celery task and it should start each hour at the 0th minute, but it does not run. What doing wrong?
celery
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
import os
import pytz
from celery import Celery
from datetime import datetime
from celery.schedules import crontab
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'app.settings')
app = Celery('app', broker='amqp://rabbit:5672')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
app.autodiscover_tasks()
#app.on_after_configure.connect
def setup_periodic_tasks(sender, **kwargs):
sender.add_periodic_task(crontab(minute=0, hour='0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12, \
13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24'),
task.s())
#app.task
def task():
#any code
In the terminal, I see this info, but the task is not running
[2018-05-09 19:05:16,275: INFO/Beat] beat: Starting...

Try change your task code to something like this:
from celery.task import periodic_task
from celery.schedules import crontab
#periodic_task(
run_every=(crontab(minute='*/60')),
name="task_name")
def run_some_task():
'''some code'''

Why isn't celery periodic task working?

I'm trying to create a periodic task within a Django app.
I added this to my settings.py:
from datetime import timedelta
CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
'get_checkins': {
'task': 'api.tasks.get_checkins',
'schedule': timedelta(seconds=1)
}
}
I'm just getting started with Celery and haven't figured out which broker I want to use, so I added this as well to just bypass the broker for the time being:
if DEBUG:
CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
I also created a celery.py file in my project folder:
from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
import os
from celery import Celery
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'testproject.settings')
app = Celery('testproject')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
app.autodiscover_tasks()
Inside my app, called api, I made a tasks.py file:
from celery import shared_task
#shared_task
def get_checkins():
print('hello from get checkins')
I'm running the worker and beat with celery -A testproject worker --beat -l info
It starts up fine and I can see the task is registered under [tasks], but I don't see any jobs getting logged. Should be one per second. Can anyone tell why this isn't executing?

I looked at your post and don't see any comment on the broker you are using along with celery.
Have you installed a broker like Rabbitmq? Is it running or logging some kind of error?
Celery needs a broker to send and receive data.
Check the documentation here (http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html#choosing-a-broker)

periodic task using celery to delete a queryset result

I'm trying to execute a periodic task using celery to delete users who didn't activate their account in time. The screenshot bellow shows that the task is correctly discovered and executed, but when i check the database no changes are done.
The celery task :
#tasks.py
from celery.task.schedules import crontab
from celery.decorators import periodic_task
from celery.utils.log import get_task_logger
from .utils import unconfirmed_users_delete
logger = get_task_logger(__name__)
# A periodic task that will run every minute (the symbol "*" means every)
#periodic_task(run_every=(crontab(hour="*", minute="*", day_of_week="*")))
def delete_unconfirmed_users():
return unconfirmed_users_delete()
The queryset to execute (checked in django shell and correctly working) :
#utils.py
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.utils import timezone
def unconfirmed_users_delete():
return User.objects.filter(is_active=False).filter(profile__key_expires__lt=timezone.now()).delete()
The task is correctly called every minute :
What could be wrong ?

As #schillingt mentioned most of the time, we forget to (re)start worker process for the periodic task.
This happens because we have a beat scheduler which schedules the task and worker which executes the task.
celery -A my_task beat # schedule tasks
celery worker -A my_task -l info # consume tasks
A much better solution is to have a worker which schedules task & executes. You can do that using
celery worker -A my_task -l info --beat # schedule & consume tasks
This schedules the periodic task and consumes it.

Celery tasks in Django are always blocking

I have the following setup in my django settings:
CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES = timedelta(minutes=30)
CELERY_CHORD_PROPAGATES = True
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json', 'msgpack', 'yaml']
CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
CELERY_EAGER_PROPAGATES_EXCEPTIONS = True
BROKER_URL = 'django://'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND='djcelery.backends.database:DatabaseBackend'
I've included this under my installed apps:
'djcelery',
'kombu.transport.django'
My project structure is (django 1.5)
proj
|_proj
__init__.py
celery.py
|_apps
|_myapp1
|_models.py
|_tasks.py
This is my celery.py file:
from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
from celery import Celery
from django.conf import settings
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'proj.settings.dev')
app = Celery('proj')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS, related_name='tasks')
In the main __init__.pyI have:
from __future__ import absolute_import
from .celery import app as celery_app
And finally in myapp1/tasks.py I define my task:
#task()
def retrieve():
# Do my stuff
Now, if I launch a django interactive shell and I launch the retrieve task:
result = retrieve.delay()
it always seems to be a blocking call, meaning that the prompt is bloked until the function returns. The result status is SUCCESS, the function actually performs the operations BUT it seems not to be async. What am I missing?

it seems like CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER causes this
if this is True, all tasks will be executed locally by blocking until
the task returns. apply_async() and Task.delay() will return an
EagerResult instance, which emulates the API and behavior of
AsyncResult, except the result is already evaluated.
That is, tasks will be executed locally instead of being sent to the
queue.