transient unit test failure in ProducerFailureHandlingTest

Saw the following transient unit test failure.

kafka.api.ProducerFailureHandlingTest > testTooLargeRecordWithAckZero FAILED
junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Partition [topic-1,0] metadata not propagated after timeout
at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:47)
at junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:20)
at kafka.utils.TestUtils$.waitUntilMetadataIsPropagated(TestUtils.scala:532)
at kafka.utils.TestUtils$$anonfun$createTopic$1.apply(TestUtils.scala:151)
at kafka.utils.TestUtils$$anonfun$createTopic$1.apply(TestUtils.scala:150)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244)
at scala.collection.immutable.Range.foreach(Range.scala:141)
at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244)
at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105)
at kafka.utils.TestUtils$.createTopic(TestUtils.scala:150)
at kafka.api.ProducerFailureHandlingTest.testTooLargeRecordWithAckZero(ProducerFailureHandlingTest.scala:115)