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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-2857: --------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2538 > ConsumerGroupCommand throws GroupCoordinatorNotAvailableException when > describing a non-existent group before the offset topic is created > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2857 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2857 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tools > Reporter: Ismael Juma > Assignee: Vahid Hashemian > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.11.0.0 > > > If we describe a non-existing group before the offset topic is created, like > the following: > {code} > bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --new-consumer > --describe --group gggg > {code} > We get the following error: > {code} > Error while executing consumer group command The group coordinator is not > available. > org.apache.kafka.common.errors.GroupCoordinatorNotAvailableException: The > group coordinator is not available. > {code} > The exception is thrown in the `adminClient.describeConsumerGroup` call. We > can't interpret this exception as meaning that the group doesn't exist > because it could also be thrown f all replicas for a offset topic partition > are down (as explained by Jun). > Jun also suggested that we should distinguish if a coordinator is not > available from the case where a coordinator doesn't exist. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)