It means the leader information has not propagated to the brokers, hence when clients asked for the leaders of the interested partitions this error is thrown.
Have you created the topic manually before you try to produce/consume? Guozhang On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:05 PM, David Montgomery <davidmontgom...@gmail.com > wrote: > I just built a new kafka server 0.8.0. How I am getting the below in the > logs. What does it mean? > > > [2014-02-13 00:01:43,034] ERROR [KafkaApi-1392248055] Error while fetching > metadata for partition [topic-pixel,0] (kafka.server.KafkaApis) > kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException: Leader not available for > partition [topic-pixel,0] > at > kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$17$$anonfun$20.apply(KafkaApis.scala:474) > at > kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$17$$anonfun$20.apply(KafkaApis.scala:462) > at > > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at > > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at > > scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:45) > at kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$17.apply(KafkaApis.scala:462) > at kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$17.apply(KafkaApis.scala:458) > at > > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at > > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at scala.collection.immutable.Set$Set1.foreach(Set.scala:81) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:206) > at scala.collection.immutable.Set$Set1.map(Set.scala:68) > at > kafka.server.KafkaApis.handleTopicMetadataRequest(KafkaApis.scala:458) > at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handle(KafkaApis.scala:68) > at kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandler.run(KafkaRequestHandler.scala:42) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) > [2014-02-13 00:01:43,034] ERROR [KafkaApi-1392248055] Error while fetching > metadata for partition [topic-pixel,1] (kafka.server.KafkaApis) > -- -- Guozhang
