Do you have delete.topic.enable turned on in all brokers? Thanks,
Jun On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > So far, I have been unable to get delete topic to work, with release > candidate 2 for 0.8.2. > > It worked ok when I ran it in the debugger locally, on a single node > instance. But when I run it in our staging environment, it is not > successfully even marking the topic for delete, for some reason. > > I am setting delete.topic.enable to true (and see the confirmation of this > in the startup logs, e.g.): > > INFO [main] utils.VerifiableProperties - Property delete.topic.enable > is overridden to true > > I run this command: > > java -cp app.jar kafka.admin.TopicCommand --zookeeper > myzkconnect:12345/mynamespace --delete --topic mytopic > > log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger > (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection). > log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. > log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger > (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread). > log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig > for more info. > log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. > log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig > for more info. > Topic mytopic is marked for deletion. > Note: This will have no impact if delete.topic.enable is not set to true. > > I then do a —list which should at least show the topic marked for deletion: > > java -cp app.jar kafka.admin.TopicCommand --zookeeper > myzkconnect:12345/mynamespace --list --topic mytopic > > log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger > (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection). > log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger > (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread). > log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. > log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. > log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig > for more info. > log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig > for more info. > mytopic > > Note, it doesn’t list it as ‘marked for deletion’. Furthermore, waiting > multiple hours still doesn’t result in the topic being deleted. > > The topic has 1 partition, 2 replicas, and no data stored. > > In zookeeper, the /admin/deleted_topics/ path is empty. > > The zookeeper code looks pretty straightforward, but for some reason is not > writing the deleted_topics path. We are running zookeeper 3.4.6. > > Thoughts? > > Jason > >
