Nathan Long created KAFKA-7674:
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Summary: Quick Start Guide steps for managing topics do not work
Key: KAFKA-7674
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7674
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Components: documentation
Affects Versions: 2.1.0
Environment: MacOS 10.13.6
Reporter: Nathan Long
I'm following the [Apache Kafka Quick Start
Guide](https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart) exactly, using [the release linked
at the
top](https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/2.0.0/kafka_2.11-2.0.0.tgz),
which is versioned as "kafka_2.11-2.0.0.tgz".
At "Step 3: Create a Topic", it says to run this to create a topic:
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
--replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
The next step is to list the existing topics:
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
The documentation shows that `test` should be listed.
The list command returns no output for me. I'm using the default configuration
with `log.dirs=/tmp/kafka-logs`, and looking in that directory, I see no change
when I run the command above to create a topic.
When I publish the first message to the topic, I see it fail to send the
message, then successfully retry after the topic is auto-created. I'm then able
to see the message when I run the console consumer:
bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server \
localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning
But even though the topic now clearly exists, when I list topics, it still
finds nothing:
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
I don't know if this is a documentation problem or a bug, but I get no errors
when running any of these commands, it seems like a bug.
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