Can you please send around the entire consumer log that leads to ConsumerRebalanceFailedException ? That exception means the consumer will not be able to startup. There can be several problems that can lead to this exception, most commonly includes inability to connect to zookeeper.
Thanks, Neha On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM, sun liwei <slivey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all > > The code is like this: > > ConsumerConnector consumer = ...; > Map<String, Integer> topicCountMap = ...; > Map<String, List<KafkaStream<Message>>> consumerMap = null; > KafkaStream<Message> stream = null; > > try{ > topicCountMap.put(topic, new Integer(1)); > consumerMap = consumer.createMessageStreams(topicCountMap); > stream = consumerMap.get(topic).get(0); > }catch(Exception e){ > > }finally{ > *// shall I shutdown the consumer here? or should I call * > //consumer.shutdown(); > //consumer = null; > } > > Actually the exception is: *kafka.common.ConsumerRebalanceFailedException: > ***-1353254404267-5541f750 can't rebalance after 4 retries* > > Thank you very much! > > Adam