Kousuke Saruta created AIRFLOW-6529: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Serialization error occurs when the scheduler tries to run on macOS. Key: AIRFLOW-6529 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-6529 Project: Apache Airflow Issue Type: Bug Components: scheduler Affects Versions: 1.10.8 Environment: macOS Python 3.8 multiprocessing with spawn mode Reporter: Kousuke Saruta Assignee: Kousuke Saruta When we try to run the scheduler on macOS, we will get a serialization error like as follows. {code} ____________ _____________ ____ |__( )_________ __/__ /________ __ ____ /| |_ /__ ___/_ /_ __ /_ __ \_ | /| / / ___ ___ | / _ / _ __/ _ / / /_/ /_ |/ |/ / _/_/ |_/_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ \____/____/|__/ [2020-01-10 19:54:41,974] {executor_loader.py:59} INFO - Using executor SequentialExecutor [2020-01-10 19:54:41,983] {scheduler_job.py:1462} INFO - Starting the scheduler [2020-01-10 19:54:41,984] {scheduler_job.py:1469} INFO - Processing each file at most -1 times [2020-01-10 19:54:41,984] {scheduler_job.py:1472} INFO - Searching for files in /Users/sarutak/airflow/dags [2020-01-10 19:54:42,025] {scheduler_job.py:1474} INFO - There are 27 files in /Users/sarutak/airflow/dags [2020-01-10 19:54:42,025] {scheduler_job.py:1527} INFO - Resetting orphaned tasks for active dag runs [2020-01-10 19:54:42,059] {scheduler_job.py:1500} ERROR - Exception when executing execute_helper Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/sarutak/work/oss/airflow-env/master-python3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job.py", line 1498, in _execute self._execute_helper() File "/Users/sarutak/work/oss/airflow-env/master-python3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job.py", line 1531, in _execute_helper self.processor_agent.start() File "/Users/sarutak/work/oss/airflow-env/master-python3.8.1/lib/python3.8/site-packages/airflow/utils/dag_processing.py", line 348, in start self._process.start() File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/process.py", line 121, in start self._popen = self._Popen(self) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 224, in _Popen return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 283, in _Popen return Popen(process_obj) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 32, in __init__ super().__init__(process_obj) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py", line 19, in __init__ self._launch(process_obj) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 47, in _launch reduction.dump(process_obj, fp) File "/opt/python/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 60, in dump ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj) AttributeError: Can't pickle local object 'SchedulerJob._execute.<locals>.processor_factory' {code} The reason is scheduler try to run subprocesses using multiprocessing with spawn mode. Actually, as of Python 3.8, spawn mode is the default mode in macOS. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)