Attempting to import textblob from within celery task results in SIGSEGV.

[LorenDavie]

I'm attempting to use TextBlob within a Celery task. I've isolated the line

import textblob

as causing a SIGSEGV fault, causing the worker process to exit prematurely. The exactly same code works fine when run in-process (in this case, in the Django dev server).

I would supply more of a stacktrace, but there doesn't seem to be one available since it's a system level, fatal error. The import statement is definitely where it happens however.

If it's a misconfiguration / misuse on my end, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[LorenDavie]

Oh, whoops rest of details:

Django 1.5.1
Celery 3.1.8
textblob 0.8.4

Running on OS X Mavericks.

[jschnurr]

This Celery issue, and that spaCy issue, seem to point toward TextBlob not being fork safe, though I can't reproduce the problem.

This is an old issue; will close it for now, but if anyone comes across it again, please try the workaround in the Celery thread, or post some code that demonstrates it, and we can re-open it.