Which version of Kafka are you using? Thanks,
Jun On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:10 AM, David Morales de Frías < dmora...@paradigmatecnologico.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > If i start a consumer in a non-existent topic (auto-create true) before the > producer, the consumer never gets the messages. > > These are the steps: > > 1) kafka-console-consumer --topic newTopic (it doesn't exist) > 2) kafka-console-producer --topic newTopic > 3) Send some messages > 4) I can see this in the log and the consumer never receives them > > [2014-03-06 10:58:18,641] WARN Error while fetching metadata > [{TopicMetadata for topic newTopic -> > No partition metadata for topic newTopic due to > kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [newTopic]: class > kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException > (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) > > > > 5) restart kafka-console-consumer --topic newTopic > 6) Send some messages from producer > 7) Consumer receives messages. > > > > Is that ok? > Where are the produced messages? I'm sure that consumer never see them, but > are they stored in brokers? > > > Regards. >