GitHub user ymatsuda opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/899
MINOR: add retry to state dir locking There is a possibility that the state directory locking fails when another stream thread is taking long to close all tasks. Simple retries should alleviate the problem. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ymatsuda/kafka minor2 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/899.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #899 ---- commit c211cae875bd41d35b897f54d33fe3827f18c326 Author: Yasuhiro Matsuda <yasuh...@confluent.io> Date: 2016-02-10T17:43:56Z MINOR: add retry to state dir locking ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---