Exception during topic deletion when Kafka is hosted in Docker in Windows

Question

I host Kafka in Docker in Windows. Wurstmeister/Kafka docker image is used. Kafka data is stored in local Windows folder for persistency. Windows folder is mapped to Kafka docker image via Docker volumes. I can create topics, publish and consume messages. However when I try to delete topic I receive the following error:

 Error while deleting test-0 in dir /var/lib/kafka. (kafka.server.LogDirFailureChannel)
 java.io.IOException: Failed to rename log directory from /var/lib/kafka/test-0 to /var/lib/kafka/test-0.a81ff9700e4e4c3e8b20c6d949971b64-delete
 at kafka.log.LogManager.asyncDelete(LogManager.scala:671)
 at kafka.cluster.Partition.$anonfun$delete$1(Partition.scala:178)
 at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$.inLock(CoreUtils.scala:217)
 at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$.inWriteLock(CoreUtils.scala:225)
 at kafka.cluster.Partition.delete(Partition.scala:173)
 at kafka.server.ReplicaManager.stopReplica(ReplicaManager.scala:341)
 at kafka.server.ReplicaManager.$anonfun$stopReplicas$2(ReplicaManager.scala:373)
 at scala.collection.Iterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:929)
 at scala.collection.Iterator.foreach$(Iterator.scala:929)
 at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1417)
 at scala.collection.IterableLike.foreach(IterableLike.scala:71)
 at scala.collection.IterableLike.foreach$(IterableLike.scala:70)
 at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54)
 at kafka.server.ReplicaManager.stopReplicas(ReplicaManager.scala:371)
 at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handleStopReplicaRequest(KafkaApis.scala:190)
 at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handle(KafkaApis.scala:104)
 at kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandler.run(KafkaRequestHandler.scala:65)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Could somebody help me to cope with this issue?

UPD: Below you can find contents of docker-compose file that I use to run Kafka:

version: '3'
services:
  zookeeper:
    image: zookeeper
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"
    environment:
      ZOO_MY_ID: 1
    volumes:
      - ./zookeeper_data:/data
      - ./zookeeper_datalog:/datalog
  kafka:
    depends_on: 
      - zookeeper
    image: wurstmeister/kafka
    ports:
      - "9092:9092"
    environment:
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: localhost
      KAFKA_LOG_DIRS: /var/lib/kafka
      KAFKA_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE: 'false'
      KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
    volumes:
      - ./kafka_logs:/var/lib/kafka

Answer 1

This issue still exists in Windows for Kafka ver 1.1.0 (kafka_2.12-1.1.0) when I try to delete the topic.

The topic gets marked for deletion and the Kafka server fails with java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException when trying to rename the logs directory 'test-0'

Deleting the whole test-0 logs folder does not help. Reinstalling the Kafka server does not help either - even after reinstalling, the info about the topic marked for deletion remains.

Took me a couple of hours to figure out that the info about the topic sits in the Zookeeper - in one of the log files!

Solution

Stop the Zookeeper process. Go to your Zookeeper logs folder zookeeper-3.x.x\bin\zookeeper-3.x.xdata\version-2\ and delete the latest log.xx files. Restart Zookeper. Restart Kafka server.