Package: celeryd Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Default celeryd package ships with the (upstream) SysV initscript and creates a system user named celery. By default this user has /bin/false as a shell. So if you set correct variables in /etc/default/celery and start the daemon, celery never starts. This is the relevant function from the initscript: _chuid () { su "$CELERYD_USER" -c "$CELERYD_MULTI $*" } Simply changing this to: su "$CELERYD_USER" --shell=/bin/sh -c "$CELERYD_MULTI $*" works. I don't know if this is the best way to fix this, though. I'm marking this important because the package celeryd only provides the initscript. Running the worker proccess by hand of course works.