Can you check if you are hitting this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-278 ?
Thanks, Neha On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Helin Xiang wrote: > Hi, we are using kafka 0.7.2 > > We start 2 brokers, and running for a while. After that, we shut 1 broker > down, remove its data directory, and restart it. But the broker won't > receive any logs. > We checked the zookeeper, finding that old topic contain only 1 broker id. > After that, we manually make some directories with names of old topics > under the data directory. > We restart the broker this time, and find it's ok to receive logs of those > topics. > > Could it possibly be a bug or does it have to behave like this for some > reason we don't know? > > THANKS > > -- > *Best Regards > > * > *Xiang Helin > * >