Fixed it.
An entire cluster restart was required. Not the best solution, but all 6 servers, topics, partitions, and replicas are in sync now. And all topics have leaders. Not I just need todo a little rebalancing. Cheers, Eric Sites On 8/4/13 11:06 PM, "Eric Sites" <eric.si...@threattrack.com> wrote: >All, > >How do you recover from a bad Kafka 0.8 server. > >It failed to keep up with the replicated partitions assigned to it about >a month ago. > >I delete everything in the partitions directories, then created the >partition folders assigned to it. >I also recreated the replication-offset-checkpoint file, with topcname >part 0. >Then start Kafka back up. > >And nothing... No recovery, just a bunch of empty log and index files. >It will not recover. > >I have 2 servers like this, thank god I have 6 servers and almost all >partitions have 3 replicas. > >But I do have a topic that had 1 partition on the servers, now it is >showing no leader. > >Any help would be great. > >Thanks, >Eric Sites >