[SOLR-5615] Deadlock while trying to recover after a ZK session expiry

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
• Fix Version/s: 4.6.1, 6.0
• Component/s: SolrCloud
• Assignee: Mark Miller
• Reporter: Ramkumar Aiyengar
• Created: 07/Jan/14 14:11
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:53
• Resolved: 19/Feb/14 01:46

Description

The sequence of events which might trigger this is as follows:

• Leader of a shard, say OL, has a ZK expiry
• The new leader, NL, starts the election process
• NL, through Overseer, clears the current leader (OL) for the shard from the cluster state
• OL reconnects to ZK, calls onReconnect from event thread (main-EventThread)
• OL marks itself down
• OL sets up watches for cluster state, and then retrieves it (with no leader for this shard)
• NL, through Overseer, updates cluster state to mark itself leader for the shard
• OL tries to register itself as a replica, and waits till the cluster state is updated
  with the new leader from event thread
• ZK sends a watch update to OL, but it is blocked on the event thread waiting for it.

Oops. This finally breaks out after trying to register itself as replica times out after 20 mins.