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Brett Rann commented on KAFKA-7044: ----------------------------------- for us it's only happening in 1 consumer group. it subscribes to many topics, they all should be round robin assigned, some are actually empty. we have many clusters with the same configs. it's happening in one, but not another, with the same consumer group. so i'll dig a bit and see if I can find a meaningful difference between the two. > kafka-consumer-groups.sh NullPointerException describing round robin or > sticky assignors > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-7044 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7044 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tools > Affects Versions: 1.1.0 > Environment: CentOS 7.4, Oracle JDK 1.8 > Reporter: Jeff Field > Assignee: Vahid Hashemian > Priority: Minor > > We've recently moved to using the round robin assignor for one of our > consumer groups, and started testing the sticky assignor. In both cases, > using Kafka 1.1.0 we get a null pointer exception *unless* the group being > described is rebalancing: > {code:java} > kafka-consumer-groups --bootstrap-server fqdn:9092 --describe --group > groupname-for-consumer > Error: Executing consumer group command failed due to null > [2018-06-12 01:32:34,179] DEBUG Exception in consumer group command > (kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at scala.Predef$.Long2long(Predef.scala:363) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$getLogEndOffsets$2.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:612) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$getLogEndOffsets$2.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:610) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:392) > at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:296) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.getLogEndOffsets(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:610) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.describePartitions(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:328) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.collectConsumerAssignment(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:308) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.collectConsumerAssignment(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:544) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10$$anonfun$13.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:571) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10$$anonfun$13.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:565) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.flatMap(List.scala:338) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:565) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService$$anonfun$10.apply(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:558) > at scala.Option.map(Option.scala:146) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.collectGroupOffsets(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:558) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$ConsumerGroupService$class.describeGroup(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:271) > at > kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$KafkaConsumerGroupService.describeGroup(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:544) > at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand$.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala:77) > at kafka.admin.ConsumerGroupCommand.main(ConsumerGroupCommand.scala) > [2018-06-12 01:32:34,255] DEBUG Removed sensor with name connections-closed: > (org.apache.kafka.common.metrics.Metrics){code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)