Something strange is happening with my application when I boot the jobs server with rake jobs:work. The rails webserver boots fine. I've noticed threads such as this one, however 1) it's not quite the same error message, that one seems more straightforward and 2) the answer did not yield any different results.
Here's my stacktrace -
rake aborted!
Psych::BadAlias: Unknown alias: 1
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/psych_ext.rb:77:in `visit_Psych_Nodes_Mapping'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/psych_ext.rb:35:in `visit_Psych_Nodes_Mapping'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/psych_ext.rb:35:in `visit_Psych_Nodes_Mapping'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/psych_ext.rb:17:in `load_dj'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/backend/base.rb:85:in `payload_object'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/backend/base.rb:74:in `name'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:245:in `job_say'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:272:in `handle_failed_job'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:213:in `block in run'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:61:in `block in initialize'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:66:in `execute'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:40:in `run_callbacks'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:213:in `rescue in run'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:202:in `run'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:280:in `block in reserve_and_run_one_job'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:61:in `block in initialize'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:66:in `execute'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:40:in `run_callbacks'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:280:in `reserve_and_run_one_job'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:187:in `block in work_off'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:186:in `times'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:186:in `work_off'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:150:in `block (4 levels) in start'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:149:in `block (3 levels) in start'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:61:in `block in initialize'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:66:in `execute'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:40:in `run_callbacks'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:148:in `block (2 levels) in start'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:147:in `loop'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:147:in `block in start'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/plugins/clear_locks.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <class:ClearLocks>'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:79:in `block (2 levels) in add'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:61:in `block in initialize'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:79:in `block in add'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:66:in `execute'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/lifecycle.rb:40:in `run_callbacks'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/worker.rb:146:in `start'
/Users/ccromar/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/delayed_job-4.0.6/lib/delayed/tasks.rb:9:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
I got the same issue after ruby upgrade from 2.1.5 to 2.3.8. Thats latest ruby version that could be run with rails 4.1.8.
Upgrading to the latest version of delayed_job did not help. Also tried to specify downgraded version of psych gem in my Gemfile. This did work not as well.
The real issue is that if error appears on job parsing stage then delayed_job does not update last_error column.
So I just went though all the jobs and checked if it could be parsed or not:
failing_jobs = []
Delayed::Job.find_each do |job|
begin
# this code is from dj source https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job/blob/master/lib/delayed/psych_ext.rb#L15
yaml = job.handler
result = Psych.parse(yaml)
result ? Delayed::PsychExt::ToRuby.create.accept(result) : result
rescue Psych::BadAlias => e
failing_jobs << job
end
end
In my case it were 6 jobs out of ~3k that could be deleted safely so I got lucky :)
Refs:
https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job/pull/867
https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job_mongoid/pull/65