Most likely it is either not able to connect to RabbitMQ,
or can't login with the provided credentials.
If you're sure that rabbitmq is up and running then you
should check the rabbit logs.
If you don't want to use rabbitmq then you should set up
an alternate message transport:
http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/tutorials/otherqueues.html
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