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James Cheng commented on KAFKA-1120: ------------------------------------ I believe we ran into this today. {noformat} core@core04 $ grep brokers controller.log.2016-11-22-22 [2016-11-22 22:50:32,883] INFO [Controller 4]: Currently active brokers in the cluster: Set(1, 3, 4, 5) (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:50:32,883] INFO [Controller 4]: Currently shutting brokers in the cluster: Set() (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:51:44,601] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Broker change listener fired for path /brokers/ids with children 1,2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:51:44,607] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Newly added brokers: 2, deleted brokers: , all live brokers: 1,2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:55:18,831] DEBUG [Controller 4]: All shutting down brokers: 1 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:55:18,831] DEBUG [Controller 4]: Live brokers: 5,2,3,4 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:57:11,791] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Broker change listener fired for path /brokers/ids with children 2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:57:11,980] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Newly added brokers: , deleted brokers: 1, all live brokers: 2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:57:11,985] INFO [Controller 4]: Removed ArrayBuffer(1) from list of shutting down brokers. (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:57:43,133] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Broker change listener fired for path /brokers/ids with children 1,2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:57:43,359] INFO [BrokerChangeListener on Controller 4]: Newly added brokers: 1, deleted brokers: , all live brokers: 1,2,3,4,5 (kafka.controller.ReplicaStateMachine$BrokerChangeListener) [2016-11-22 22:57:50,218] DEBUG [Controller 4]: All shutting down brokers: 1 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:57:50,218] DEBUG [Controller 4]: Live brokers: 5,2,3,4 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:58:01,668] DEBUG [Controller 4]: All shutting down brokers: 1 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-11-22 22:58:01,668] DEBUG [Controller 4]: Live brokers: 5,2,3,4 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) core@core04 $ {noformat} At 2016-11-22 22:57:11,791, broker 1 went away, and the controller noticed it. At 2016-11-22 22:57:43,133, broker 1 came back, and the controller noticed it. At 2016-11-22 22:57:50,218, the controller said it was "done" with stuff, and it doesn't seem to know about broker 1, even though broker 1 is running > Controller could miss a broker state change > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1120 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1120 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8.1 > Reporter: Jun Rao > > When the controller is in the middle of processing a task (e.g., preferred > leader election, broker change), it holds a controller lock. During this > time, a broker could have de-registered and re-registered itself in ZK. After > the controller finishes processing the current task, it will start processing > the logic in the broker change listener. However, it will see no broker > change and therefore won't do anything to the restarted broker. This broker > will be in a weird state since the controller doesn't inform it to become the > leader of any partition. Yet, the cached metadata in other brokers could > still list that broker as the leader for some partitions. Client requests > routed to that broker will then get a TopicOrPartitionNotExistException. This > broker will continue to be in this bad state until it's restarted again. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)