Unable to access edX course from MITx Online if profile update fails

[collinpreston]

Steps to Reproduce

In an environment where MITx Online is disconnected from edX and IGNORE_EDX_FAILURES is set to True.

1. A user with Addl field flag equal to False.
2. Enroll into a course.
3. From the MITx Online dashboard page (http://mitxonline.odl.local:8013/dashboard/) click on the course title.
4. You will be asked for additional information. Enter information into the required fields and click submit.

Expected Behavior

The MITx Online User record is updated and the user is redirected to the course on edX. The edX user record should be updated asynchronously and this API request should not block the user from navigating to the edX course.

Actual Behavior

The MITx Online User record is not updated and the user is not redirected to the course on edX.

Additional details

mitxonline/users/views.py

Line 57 in 67506b2

tasks.update_edx_user_profile(request.user.id)