http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23228222/running-into-leadernotavailableexception-when-using-kafka-0-8-1-with-zookeeper-3
Kafka uses an external coordination framework (by default Zookeeper) to maintain configuration. It seems the configuration is now out-of-sync with the Kafka log data. In this case, I‘d remove affected topic data and related Zookeeper data.
For Test Environment:
- Stop
Kafka-server
andZookeeper-server
- Remove the data directories of both services, by default they are
/tmp/kafka-log
and/tmp/zookeeper
. - Start
Kafka-server
andZookeeper-server
again - Create a new topic
Now you are able to work with the topic again.
For Production Environment:
As the Kafka topics are stored in different directories, you should remove particular directories. You should also remove /brokers/{broker_id}/topics/{broken_topic}
from
Zookeeper by using a Zookeeper client.
Please read Kafka documentation carefully to make sure the configuration structure, before you do anything stupid. Kafka is rolling out a delete
topic feature (KAFKA-330),
so that the problem can be solved more easily.