Hello, I have a problem with my Kafka cluster (0.8.2) where there's a topic that has had its partition metadata deleted from /brokers/topics/exampleTopic/partitions in Zookeeper. I think this confused the brokers and caused them to end up in a state where I'm unable to delete the topic using kafka-topics.
Some of the brokers are also continually printing these messages to server.log: [2016-04-05 00:51:02,348] WARN [Replica Manager on Broker 1]: While recording the follower position, the partition [problem-topic,2] hasn't been created, skip updating leader HW (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) [2016-04-05 00:51:02,349] WARN [Replica Manager on Broker 1]: Fetch request with correlation id 190239506 from client ReplicaFetcherThread-0-3021 on partition [problem-topic,2] failed due to Partition [problem-topic,2] doesn't exist on 1 (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) Is there a way to safely remove this topic from my cluster? I do not care about recovering the data within the topic. Thanks!
