redis.exceptions.ResponseError: wrong number of arguments for 'subscribe' command

[Hamza-Lachi]

hi I had ubuntu 16.0.4 but when I see logs in my gunicorn

I'm getting this

Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]: Process Process-1:119:
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 297, in _bootstrap
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     self.run()
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 99, in run
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/validator/views.py", line 1372, in ch
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     for r in res1.collect():
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/result.py", line 289, in collect
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     yield R, R.get(**kwargs)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/result.py", line 228, in get
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     on_message=on_message,
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/backends/asynchronous.py", line 200, in wait_for_pending
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     for _ in self._wait_for_pending(result, **kwargs):
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/backends/asynchronous.py", line 268, in _wait_for_pending
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     on_interval=on_interval):
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/backends/asynchronous.py", line 55, in drain_events_until
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     yield self.wait_for(p, wait, timeout=interval)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/backends/asynchronous.py", line 64, in wait_for
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     wait(timeout=timeout)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/celery/backends/redis.py", line 161, in drain_events
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     message = self._pubsub.get_message(timeout=timeout)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 3135, in get_message
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     response = self.parse_response(block=False, timeout=timeout)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 3036, in parse_response
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     return self._execute(connection, connection.read_response)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 3013, in _execute
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     return command(*args)
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:   File "/home/emailv-completed/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/redis/connection.py", line 642, in read_response
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]:     raise response
Jun 14 04:17:01 hamza2.pawnhost.com gunicorn[24450]: redis.exceptions.ResponseError: wrong number of arguments for 'subscribe' command

How can I fix this error

I'm using Django celery and Redis

Version: redis==3.2.1,celery==4.4.2,

Platform: python3.7 | ubuntu 16.04

[NullYing]

Try upgrade: celery==4.4.5

[silviuum]

I have the latest celery==4.4.5 and redis==3.5.3 versions and I still encounter this error for Ubuntu 18.04 WSL. I'm using the gevent pool for celery if it matters.

[NullYing]

open ignore_result options

[andymccurdy]

There's not enough information for me to reproduce the error that you're seeing. If you can put together a sample app that consistently reproduces the problem then we can likely figure out what's going on. However I strongly suspect that this is an error in how Celery (or another lib) might be using redis-py rather than a bug within redis-py itself.

[andymccurdy]

@Hamza-Lachi @silviuum If either of you can provide an example that reproduces this issue I can take a look and try to figure out what's going on. Currently I don't have enough info to diagnose where the problem is.

[mikeauthramp]

FWIW, I'm also seeing this with Celery 5.0.0 and Redis for Python 3.5.3.

Unfortunately it's not easy to create a simple app to reproduce, because I'd estimate it happens only once in a while. I've tried it with something as simple as this:

@celery.task()
def add_together(a, b):
    return a + b

def check_working():
    result = tasks.add_together.delay(3, 7).wait()

I put that check_working in a production health check. It works fine for days and then seemingly at random, I'll get this error, only to have the next call work fine.

[andymccurdy]

@mikeauthramp Is you app running in a multithreaded environment? This seems like a race condition to me. Specifically, I'm wondering if this error is another manifestation of celery/celery#6335.

[mikeauthramp]

@andymccurdy It is a multi-threaded environment.

[Sewci0]

I am also seeing the same issue on celery 5.0. It's quite hard to reproduce and happens once every 24h for us.

[andymccurdy]

Still pretty confident this is a Celery/Kombu issue, specifically celery/celery#6335.

[louyuoops]

this problem exists in scene that django==3.1.5 with celery==5.1.0; I started django with single-thread, but it sill exists,

[louyuoops]

I have resolved my problem, first , my problem is kind of this issue, it reports 'ping' command arguments error, I suspect that python-redis package version is not matched, so I changed many version, but same problem happened; At last, I check redis version, Oh, too old, 2.x.x, then I use 5.0+ verison to test, it works well. The issue is an API compatibility problem, between old redis and newer python-redis

[Tomasz-Kluczkowski]

I have the ‘ redis.exceptions.ResponseError: wrong number of arguments for 'subscribe' command’ issue with: Azure for cache Redis server 6.14 Celery 5.1.2 Redis-py 3.5.3

so the issue is not sorted Any news on what needs to be done?

[daviskirk]

Same for redis in google cloud memorystore. redis-py 3.5.3, celery 5.1.2.

ResponseError: wrong number of arguments for 'subscribe' command

 File "redis/client.py", line 3617, in get_message
    response = self.parse_response(block=False, timeout=timeout)
  File "redis/client.py", line 3505, in parse_response
    response = self._execute(conn, conn.read_response)
  File "redis/client.py", line 3479, in _execute
    return command(*args, **kwargs)
  File "redis/connection.py", line 756, in read_response
    raise response

I would think that celery is probably the one sending the wrong arguments here but I don't think its https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/6335 as I don't have any sort of asynchronous code running.

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