I had deleted the topic "sams_2014-10-30" successfully, and later on one of our kafka brokers (broker id 4) crashed,
Now the topic is gone from zookeeper ls /brokers/topics (doesn't show the topic anymore) but I still see the zookeeper logs filling up with these messages.. : [2014-11-14 16:57:27,837] INFO Partition [sams_2014-10-30,7] on broker 0: Shrinking ISR for partition [sams_2014-10-30,7] from 0,4 to 0 (kafka.cluster.Partition) [2014-11-14 16:57:27,907] ERROR Conditional update of path /brokers/topics/sams_2014-10-30/partitions/7/state with data {"controller_epoch":20,"leader":0,"version":1,"leader_epoch":7,"isr":[0]} and expected version 490 failed due to org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode = NoNode for /brokers/topics/sams_2014-10-30/partitions/7/state (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$) any ideas?