[KAFKA-7085] Producer hangs on TimeoutException: Failed to update metadata after 60000 ms.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: clients
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Vysny
• Created: 21/Jun/18 11:02
• Updated: 21/Jun/18 11:02

Description

I start Kafka in Docker:

docker run --rm -d -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 --env ADVERTISED_HOST="127.0.0.1" spotify/kafka

 

Then, I connect KafkaProducer to that Kafka (127.0.0.1:9092) and immediately I call producer.send() . The send() method always blocks for 60s and then fails and callback receives TimeoutException. The producer is therefore unable to send any message which renders it useless.

A workaround is to sleep for 1-2 seconds after the Producer is constructed and before first send() is invoked - that apparently gives enough time to Kafka to synchronize whatever it needs and no longer block endlessly in send()