Hi Rakesh, Topic deletion didn't really work properly until 0.8.2. Here's a stackoverflow link that summarizes how to work around this limitation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24287900/delete-topic-in-kafka-0-8-1-1 HTH, Steve On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:33 PM, 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 > -- Steve Robenalt Software Architect sroben...@highwire.org <bza...@highwire.org> (office/cell): 916-505-1785 HighWire Press, Inc. 425 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA 94063 www.highwire.org Technology for Scholarly Communication
