flower UI doesn't show workers - celery

Question

I have set up airflow to execute workflows with celeryExecuter. I have started the webserver, scheduler and worker and they run just fine. But flower UI doesn't show any workers.
The output of airflow worker is:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py:144: UserWarning: The psycopg2 wheel package will be renamed from release 2.8; in order to keep installing from binary please use "pip install psycopg2-binary" instead. For details see: <http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html#binary-install-from-pypi>.
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[2018-08-02 11:29:09,827] {__init__.py:57} INFO - Using executor CeleryExecutor
[2018-08-02 11:29:09,983] {driver.py:124} INFO - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/Grammar.txt
[2018-08-02 11:29:10,052] {driver.py:124} INFO - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt
And the output of airflow flower is:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py:144: UserWarning: The psycopg2 wheel package will be renamed from release 2.8; in order to keep installing from binary please use "pip install psycopg2-binary" instead. For details see: <http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html#binary-install-from-pypi>.
""")
[2018-08-02 11:29:35,574] {__init__.py:57} INFO - Using executor CeleryExecutor
[2018-08-02 11:29:35,739] {driver.py:124} INFO - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/Grammar.txt
[2018-08-02 11:29:35,799] {driver.py:124} INFO - Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt
[I 180802 11:29:36 command:139] Visit me at http://0.0.0.0:5555
[I 180802 11:29:36 command:144] Broker: amqp://guest:**#localhost:5672//
[I 180802 11:29:36 command:147] Registered tasks:
[u'celery.accumulate',
u'celery.backend_cleanup',
u'celery.chain',
u'celery.chord',
u'celery.chord_unlock',
u'celery.chunks',
u'celery.group',
u'celery.map',
u'celery.starmap']
[I 180802 11:29:36 mixins:224] Connected to amqp://guest:**#localhost:5672//
But flower doesn't show any information about workers or tasks and generates following error on CLI:
[E 180802 11:29:55 broker:82] RabbitMQ management API call failed:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Any ideas as to what's wrong?

Answer 1

Well, I was able to solve the problem. It turns out I was supposed to add export C_FORCE_ROOT=true to my ~/.bashrc file before running the worker. This happens when you're executing the worker as root.