Howdy all, I recently upgraded to Kafka 0.8.2.0 and am trying to verify that everything still works as expected. I spin up two brokers, one zk instance, and then create a topic using
kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper ad-0104:2181 --topic deleteme --partitions 2 --replication-factor 1 Then I run --describe to check if the partitions have leaders. I get kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper ad-0104:2181 --topic deleteme Topic:deleteme PartitionCount:2 ReplicationFactor:1 Configs: Topic: deleteme Partition: 0 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0 Isr: 0 Topic: deleteme Partition: 1 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1 Isr: 1 Finally, I run the console producer kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list ad-0102:9092 --topic deleteme I get the following warning [2015-02-08 00:36:24,244] WARN Property topic is not valid (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties) and then it waits for console input. When I try to send a message I get the following list of error messages [2015-02-08 00:37:04,735] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,751] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,752] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: deleteme (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,859] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,863] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,863] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: deleteme (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,968] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,974] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:04,974] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: deleteme (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,079] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,084] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,084] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: deleteme (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,189] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic deleteme -> No partition metadata for topic deleteme due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [deleteme]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,191] ERROR Failed to send requests for topics deleteme with correlation ids in [0,8] (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) [2015-02-08 00:37:05,192] ERROR Error in handling batch of 1 events (kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread) kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after 3 tries. at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:90) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.tryToHandle(ProducerSendThread.scala:105) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(ProducerSendThread.scala:88) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(ProducerSendThread.scala:68) at scala.collection.immutable.Stream.foreach(Stream.scala:526) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.processEvents(ProducerSendThread.scala:67) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.run(ProducerSendThread.scala:45) Clearly there's a leader, but it's throwing a LeaderNotAvailableException. Any help here is appreciated. Cheers, Alex Melville