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Debowczyk commented on KAFKA-3410:
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Hi, are there plans to solve this issue? We had similar problem on our test
environment. I'm not sure what was the reason (probably kafka cluster restart).
Setting unclean.leader.election.enable=true didn't solve the problem. We had to
remove broken topics data. It would be nice to have some procedure to recover
from such situation if it's not to do that automatically.
> Unclean leader election and "Halting because log truncation is not allowed"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-3410
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3410
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: James Cheng
>
> I ran into a scenario where one of my brokers would continually shutdown,
> with the error message:
> [2016-02-25 00:29:39,236] FATAL [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-1], Halting because
> log truncation is not allowed for topic test, Current leader 1's latest
> offset 0 is less than replica 2's latest offset 151
> (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
> I managed to reproduce it with the following scenario:
> 1. Start broker1, with unclean.leader.election.enable=false
> 2. Start broker2, with unclean.leader.election.enable=false
> 3. Create topic, single partition, with replication-factor 2.
> 4. Write data to the topic.
> 5. At this point, both brokers are in the ISR. Broker1 is the partition
> leader.
> 6. Ctrl-Z on broker2. (Simulates a GC pause or a slow network) Broker2 gets
> dropped out of ISR. Broker1 is still the leader. I can still write data to
> the partition.
> 7. Shutdown Broker1. Hard or controlled, doesn't matter.
> 8. rm -rf the log directory of broker1. (This simulates a disk replacement or
> full hardware replacement)
> 9. Resume broker2. It attempts to connect to broker1, but doesn't succeed
> because broker1 is down. At this point, the partition is offline. Can't write
> to it.
> 10. Resume broker1. Broker1 resumes leadership of the topic. Broker2 attempts
> to join ISR, and immediately halts with the error message:
> [2016-02-25 00:29:39,236] FATAL [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-1], Halting because
> log truncation is not allowed for topic test, Current leader 1's latest
> offset 0 is less than replica 2's latest offset 151
> (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)
> I am able to recover by setting unclean.leader.election.enable=true on my
> brokers.
> I'm trying to understand a couple things:
> * In step 10, why is broker1 allowed to resume leadership even though it has
> no data?
> * In step 10, why is it necessary to stop the entire broker due to one
> partition that is in this state? Wouldn't it be possible for the broker to
> continue to serve traffic for all the other topics, and just mark this one as
> unavailable?
> * Would it make sense to allow an operator to manually specify which broker
> they want to become the new master? This would give me more control over how
> much data loss I am willing to handle. In this case, I would want broker2 to
> become the new master. Or, is that possible and I just don't know how to do
> it?
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