Thanks Stevo. I did see some messages related to /admin/delete_topics. Will do some research on how I can clean up zookeeper.
Thanks Rakesh On 03/12/2015 17:55, "Stevo Slavić" <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote: >Delete was actually considered to be working since Kafka 0.8.2 (although >there are still not easily reproducible edge cases when it doesn't work >well even in in 0.8.2 or newer). >In 0.8.1 one could request topic to be deleted (request gets stored as >entry in ZooKeeper), because of presence of the request for topic to be >deleted topic would become unusable (cannot publish or read), but broker >would actually never (work on the request to) delete topic. > >Maybe it will be enough to delete from ZooKeeper entry for the topic >deletion request under /admin/delete_topics to have topic usable again. > >Otherwise, just upgrade broker side to 0.8.2.x or latest 0.9.0.0 - new >broker should work with old clients so maybe you don't have to upgrade >client side immediately. > >Kind regards, >Stevo Slavic. > > >On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:33 AM, 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 >>
