You need to pass in multiple brokers in --broker-list in the producer. To obtain the new leaders, the producer needs to talk to a live broker to get the new metadata.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Chengwei Yang <chengwei.yang...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm new to kafka, feel sorry if this has been asked, I didn't figure out > my answer by googling, so asked here. Thanks in advance! > > I'm following the kafka quick start > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart > > and managed setup a kafka cluster with two brokers, which connected to a > zookeeper service, consists of 3 zk hosts. > > The working state looks like below > ----------------------8<--------------- topic describe ----8<------------- > Topic:test PartitionCount:3 ReplicationFactor:2 Configs: > Topic: test Partition: 0 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0,1 > Isr: 0,1 > Topic: test Partition: 1 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,0 > Isr: 1,0 > Topic: test Partition: 2 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0,1 > Isr: 0,1 > --------------------8<---------------- end ------------8<-------------- > > -------------------8<------------- console-producer.sh -------8<------- > $ ./bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test > SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". > SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation > SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for > further details. > this is a test message > another test message > haha > --------------------8<---------------- end ------------8<-------------- > > -------------------8<------------- console-consumer.sh -------8<------- > $ ./bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper <my zk service here> --topic > test --from-beginning > SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". > SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation > SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for > further details. > this is a test message > another test message > haha > -----------------8<---------------- end ----------------8<----------- > > So far, everything works, however, when I following the quick start to > kill the leader broker for topic *test*, say that one has broker.id 0, > then error happended, like below > > -------------------8<------------- console-consumer.sh -------8<------- > [2014-05-29 17:05:26,446] WARN Reconnect due to socket error: Received -1 > when reading from channel, socket has likely been closed. > (kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer) > [2014-05-29 17:05:26,460] ERROR > [ConsumerFetcherThread-console-consumer-40784_<hostname>-1401354179291-21cd16e1-0-0], > Error in fetch Name: FetchRequest; Version: 0; CorrelationId: 1401; > ClientId: > console-consumer-40784-ConsumerFetcherThread-console-consumer-40784_<hostname>-1401354179291-21cd16e1-0-0; > ReplicaId: -1; MaxWait: 100 ms; MinBytes: 1 bytes; RequestInfo: [test,0] -> > PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test,2] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576) > (kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherThread) > java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method) > at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:465) > at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:457) > at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:670) > at kafka.network.BlockingChannel.connect(BlockingChannel.scala:57) > at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.connect(SimpleConsumer.scala:44) > at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.reconnect(SimpleConsumer.scala:57) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.liftedTree1$1(SimpleConsumer.scala:79) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.kafka$consumer$SimpleConsumer$$sendRequest(SimpleConsumer.scala:71) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) > at > kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) > at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) > at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.fetch(SimpleConsumer.scala:107) > at > kafka.server.AbstractFetcherThread.processFetchRequest(AbstractFetcherThread.scala:96) > at > kafka.server.AbstractFetcherThread.doWork(AbstractFetcherThread.scala:88) > at kafka.utils.ShutdownableThread.run(ShutdownableThread.scala:51) > -----------------8<---------------- end ----------------8<----------- > > And when I send another message by using console-producer, it fails with > the same error, connect refused. > > From the kafka-topic.sh, it says the leader already failed-over, like > below. > > ----------------------8<--------------- topic describe ----8<------------- > Topic:test PartitionCount:3 ReplicationFactor:2 Configs: > Topic: test Partition: 0 Leader: 1 Replicas: 0,1 > Isr: 1 > Topic: test Partition: 1 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,0 > Isr: 1 > Topic: test Partition: 2 Leader: 1 Replicas: 0,1 > Isr: 1 > -----------------8<---------------- end ----------------8<----------- > > However, from the quick start, it seems it shouldn't fail at all. > > -- > Thanks, > Chengwei >