Celery cannot find a worker

Question

I'm using celery with such configuration

default_exchange = Exchange('default', type='direct')
latest_exchange = Exchange('latest', type='direct')

shared_celery_config = {
    'BROKER_URL': 'redis://localhost:6379/0',
    'CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND': 'redis://localhost:6379/0',
    'CELERY_DEFAULT_EXCHANGE': 'default',
    'CELERY_DEFAULT_ROUTING_KEY': 'default',
    'CELERY_DEFAULT_QUEUE': 'default',
    'CELERY_QUEUES': (
        Queue('default', default_exchange, routing_key='default'),
        Queue('latest', latest_exchange, routing_key='latest'),
    ),
}

celery = Celery('tasks', config_source=shared_celery_config)

But when I'm creating a task none of the worker is consuming it and nothing happens. I start workers with: celery worker -A tasks --loglevel=debug --hostname=worker1. I can see them from ps aux | grep celery output, but when executing some command to get statistics like celery -A tasks status I get following error message Error: No nodes replied within time constraint.. Therefore all tasks are in PENDING status. I believe this is some misconfiguration, but can't figure out what's wrong and how to debug such a thing. Any advise would be very helpful

Answer 1

The issue was resolved. I have an web application which uses gevent and in tasks module I have import from another module that has monkey.patch_all(). Somehow it prevents billiard and therefore a worker to start pool and that leads to this consequences. Anyway, do not use gevent at all, imho.