Attempting to restart Celery processes via Supervisor results in error

Question

I am running supervisor/celery on an amazon aws server. Attempting to deploy a new application version eventually fails because the celery processes are not started. I have taken a look at the supervisord.conf file to ensure that the programs are included, which they are. At the end of the supervisord.conf file I have the following include:

[include]
files=celeryd.conf
files=flower.conf

I try to restart celery with

sudo /usr/local/bin/supervisorctl -c /opt/python/etc/supervisord.conf restart celeryd-default celeryd-slowtasks

celeryd-defualt and celeryd-slowtaks being the names of the programs listed in celeryd.conf. I get the following error:

celeryd-default: ERROR (no such process)
celeryd-slowtasks: ERROR (no such process)
celeryd-default: ERROR (no such process)
celeryd-slowtasks: ERROR (no such process)

If I run

sudo /usr/local/bin/supervisorctl -c /opt/python/etc/supervisord.conf restart all

I get

flower: stopped
httpd: stopped
httpd: started
flower: started

without any mention of celery. Any idea how to start figuring this issue out?

Answer 1

Check /opt/python/etc/supervisord.conf, you are probably including a folder that you don't expect to be included.

Also ensure that the instance of supervisor that is running is actually using the config file you ex