Hi, I've seen Dong has done some work on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7278 which is said from the comments that it could have possibly fixed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1194.
I tested and it is unfortunately not the case... I have posted in KAFKA-1194 a way to reproduce the issue in a deterministic way: =========== C:\kafka_2.11-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT>bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat config\server.properties C:\kafka_2.11-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT>kafka-topics.bat --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic second_topic --create --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1 C:\kafka_2.11-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT>kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list 127.0.0.1:9092 --topic second_topic >hello >world >hello >Terminate batch job (Y/N)? Y C:\kafka_2.11-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT>kafka-topics.bat --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic second_topic --delete ============ I usually wouldn't push for any issues for windows to be fixed, but this one is triggered from basic CLI usage and triggers a full broker failure that can't be recovered. It actually completely destroys the faith of Kafka newcomers learning using Windows (which are 50% of the users I have in my course). I'm happy to help out in any way I can to test any patch. Thanks Stephane
