Santosh Kumar Sahu created KAFKA-20911:
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Summary: CorruptRecordException: Found record size 0 smaller than
minimum record overhead
Key: KAFKA-20911
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-20911
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Components: core
Affects Versions: 3.9.0
Reporter: Santosh Kumar Sahu
We were performing the sequential node reboot TC.
kafka-0 pod was scheduled on worker-1. when worker-1 is rebooted, kafka-0 was
also terminated. after node came up, the same pod was scheduled on worker-1 but
it is not coming to running state. it is on continuous restart and POD is not
recovered.
Pod-0 was restarting with below fatal exception
{"version": "1.2.0", "timestamp": "2026-07-03T10:23:06.427+00:00", "severity":
"error", "service_id": "pcc-data-message-bus-kf", "message": "Exiting Kafka due
to fatal exception during startup.
org.apache.kafka.common.errors.CorruptRecordException: Found record size 0
smaller than minimum record overhead (14) in file
/opt/kafka/data/logs/pcc-south-log-ccm-mfs-363-0/00000000000000202197.log.",
"metadata": \{"pod_name":"dc8vpod2pcc-cn-message-bus-kf-0", "container_name":
"messagebuskf", "namespace":"pcc"}, "extra_data": \{"file": "Kafka.scala",
"line": "28"}}
{"version": "1.2.0", "timestamp": "2026-07-03T10:23:06.427+00:00", "severity":
"error", "service_id": "pcc-data-message-bus-kf", "message": "Exiting Kafka due
to fatal exception during startup.
org.apache.kafka.common.errors.CorruptRecordException: Found record size 0
smaller than minimum record overhead (14) in file
/opt/kafka/data/logs/pcc-south-log-ccm-mfs-363-0/00000000000000202197.log.",
"metadata": \{"pod_name":"dc8vpod2pcc-cn-message-bus-kf-0", "container_name":
"messagebuskf", "namespace":"pcc"}, "extra_data": \{"file": "Kafka.scala",
"line": "28"}}
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