Hi Mayuresh These are some of the relevant logs that I could find
[2015-12-03 16:04:23,594] INFO Loading log 'merckx.raw.event.type-0' (kafka.log.LogManager) [2015-12-03 16:04:23,595] INFO Completed load of log merckx.raw.event.type-0 with log end offset 2 (kafka.log.Log) [2015-12-03 16:04:23,641] INFO Loading log 'merckx.raw.event-0' (kafka.log.LogManager) [2015-12-03 16:04:23,643] INFO Completed load of log merckx.raw.event-0 with log end offset 25149 (kafka.log.Log) [2015-12-03 16:04:25,208] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] Removed fetcher for partitions [merckx.raw.venue.capacity,0],[merckx.raw.sport.franchise,0],[merckx.raw.college,0],[merckx.raw.venue.formerName,0],[merckx.raw.venue,0],[merckx.raw.event,0],[merckx.raw.organization,0],[merckx.raw.sport.franchise.season,0],[merckx.raw.organization.season,0],[merckx.raw.sport,0],[merckx.raw.event.type,0] (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager) [2015-12-03 16:04:25,279] INFO Truncating log merckx.raw.event-0 to offset 25149. (kafka.log.Log) [2015-12-03 16:04:25,280] INFO Truncating log merckx.raw.event.type-0 to offset 2. (kafka.log.Log) [2015-12-03 16:09:04,709] ERROR [KafkaApi-0] Error while fetching metadata for partition [merckx.raw.event,0] (kafka.server.KafkaApis) kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException: Leader not available for partition [merckx.raw.event,0] [2015-12-03 16:09:05,926] ERROR [KafkaApi-0] Error while fetching metadata for partition [merckx.raw.event,0] (kafka.server.KafkaApis) Thanks Rakesh On 03/12/2015 17:33, "Mayuresh Gharat" <gharatmayures...@gmail.com> wrote: >Can you paste some logs from the controller, when you deleted the topic? > >Thanks, > >Mayuresh > >On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Rakesh Vidyadharan < >rvidyadha...@gracenote.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We are on an older kafka (0.8.1) version. While a number of consumers >> were running, we attempted to delete a few topics using the kafka-topics.sh >> file (basically want to remove all messages in that topic and restart, >> since our entities went through some incompatible changes). We noticed >> logs saying the topic has been queued for deletion. After stopping all >> processes accessing kafka, we restarted kafka and then our processes. The >> old topics do not seem to have been deleted (I can still see the log >> directories corresponding to the topics), and none of the clients are able >> to either publish or read to the topics that we attempted to delete. >> Attempting to read gives us the following type of error: >> >> Attempting to access an invalid KafkaTopic ( are you operating on a closed >> KafkaTopic ?) >> >> Attempting to publish gives us a more general type of error: >> >> kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after 3 >> tries. >> at >> kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:90) >> at kafka.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:76) >> >> How can be get around this issue and start using the topics that we tried >> to clean up? There may have been better ways to achieve what we wanted, if >> so please suggest recommendations as well. >> >> Thanks >> Rakesh >> >> > > >-- >-Regards, >Mayuresh R. Gharat >(862) 250-7125