Attempting to delete a topic which has recently been created sometimes fails with a 500 error, with an internal broker error of "Maximum redirect reached" preceeded by "Topic was already not existing" and "MetadataNotFoundException: Managed ledger not found"

Describe the bug Identical to https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12554, except the error that occurs first in the broker’s log is different (“MetadataNotFoundException: Managed ledger not found”); the NoNodeError referenced in the 12554 is not observed in the logs in this issue. To Reproduce Run reproduction plan for https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12551; sometimes no error will occur, sometimes the error described in that issue or others will occur, and sometimes this error will occur.

Expected behavior

1. Topic deletion should succeed if previous topic creation succeeded, no matter how recently a topic was created.
2. This is probably more important: all operations related to deletion/creation of topics/namespaces/tenants/subscriptions conclude before the management API returns success codes to the user. This bug and the other similar ones I filed (see github links below) all seem to arise from CRUD operations with the management API being asynchronous: i.e. when I create/delete a tenant/topic/namespace, the actual side effects of that creation or deletion (e.g. adding/removing ledgers in BookKeeper, updating metadata in ZK) occur later, not during the API post. Not only is that bound to cause bugs like this, but it’s also not what users expect; I would be happy to wait seconds or minutes for management API operations to complete in exchange for knowing that when they successfully complete that the thing I requested has actually been done.

Environment Same environment as https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12551

What my client sees

chariot.pulsar.client.exceptions.PulsarAPIError: Server error '500 Server Error' for url 'http://pulsar-blt-sn-platform-proxy-headless.pulsar:8080/admin/v2/persistent/blt4/chariot_ns_test/chariot_topic_test/partitions?force=true'
Response code: 500
URL: DELETE http://pulsar-blt-sn-platform-proxy-headless.pulsar:8080/admin/v2/persistent/blt4/chariot_ns_test/chariot_topic_test/partitions?force=true
Headers: Headers({'host': 'pulsar-blt-sn-platform-proxy-headless.pulsar:8080', 'accept': '*/*', 'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'user-agent': 'python-httpx/0.20.0'})
Payload: b''

First (earliest) stacktrace in broker log that coincides with this error

16:08:41.135 [pulsar-web-41-1] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.broker.admin.impl.PersistentTopicsBase - [null] Topic was already not existing persistent://blt4/chariot_ns_test/chariot_topic_test-partition-2
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.ManagedLedgerException$MetadataNotFoundException: Managed ledger not found
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(CompletableFuture.java:395) ~[?:?]                                                       
    at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(CompletableFuture.java:1999) ~[?:?]                                                            
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.admin.impl.PersistentTopicsBase.internalDeleteTopicForcefully(PersistentTopicsBase.java:304) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]          │
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.admin.impl.PersistentTopicsBase.internalDeleteTopic(PersistentTopicsBase.java:946) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                    │
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.admin.v2.PersistentTopics.deleteTopic(PersistentTopics.java:889) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                
    at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor459.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]                                                             
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:?]                                     
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) ~[?:?]                                                                                   
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.lambda$static$0(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:52) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jerse │
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:124) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34 │
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:167) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.3 │
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$VoidOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider.java:159) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.cor │
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:79) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2. │
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:475) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]          
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:397) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]           
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:81) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]            
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$1.run(ServerRuntime.java:255) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]             
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:248) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                        
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:244) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                        
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:292) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                       
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:274) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                       
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:244) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                       
    at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:265) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:234) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]           
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:680) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-server-2.34.jar:?]  
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.serviceImpl(WebComponent.java:394) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.containers-jersey-container-servlet-core-2.34.jar:?]      
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:346) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.containers-jersey-container-servlet-core-2.34.jar:?]          
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:366) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.containers-jersey-container-servlet-core-2.34.jar:?]  
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:319) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.containers-jersey-container-servlet-core-2.34.jar:?]  
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:205) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.containers-jersey-container-servlet-core-2.34.jar:?]
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0     at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:799) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]               
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$ChainEnd.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1626) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629] 
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.web.ResponseHandlerFilter.doFilter(ResponseHandlerFilter.java:67) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]               
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]               
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]    
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.intercept.BrokerInterceptor.onFilter(BrokerInterceptor.java:88) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                 
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.web.ProcessHandlerFilter.doFilter(ProcessHandlerFilter.java:49) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                 
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]               
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]    
    at org.apache.pulsar.broker.web.PreInterceptFilter.doFilter(PreInterceptFilter.java:70) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-broker-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5] 
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]               
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]    
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:548) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]           
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]     
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1624) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]    
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]     
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1434) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]    
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]      
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:501) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-servlet-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]            
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1594) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]     
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]      
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1349) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]     
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]         
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:234) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]         │
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:146) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629] 
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.StatisticsHandler.handle(StatisticsHandler.java:179) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629] 
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]       
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:516) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]           
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:388) ~[org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]            
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:633) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:380) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]  
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:277) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-server-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]            
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-io-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-io-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]      
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-io-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]   
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:338) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-util-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]   
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:315) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-util-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629] 
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:173) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-util-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:131) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-util-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]       
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:386) [org.eclipse.jetty-jetty-util-9.4.43.v20210629.jar:9.4.43.v20210629]       │
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?]                                                     
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?]                                                     
    at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30) [io.netty-netty-common-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                   
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) [?:?]                                                                                               
Caused by: org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.ManagedLedgerException$MetadataNotFoundException: Managed ledger not found

Second (last in time) stacktrace in broker that coincides with this error

pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 15:58:00.522 [AsyncHttpClient-60-1] WARN  org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.BaseResource - [http://pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0.pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-headless.pulsar.svc
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 15:58:00.522 [AsyncHttpClient-60-1] ERROR org.apache.pulsar.broker.admin.impl.PersistentTopicsBase - [null] Failed to delete partition persistent://blt4/chariot_ns_test/chariot_topic_test-partition-1
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.PulsarAdminException: java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector$RetryException: Could not complete the operation. Number of retries has been exhausted. Failed reason: Maximum redirect reached: 5
at org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.BaseResource.getApiException(BaseResource.java:247) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-client-admin-original-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                    
at org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.BaseResource$3.failed(BaseResource.java:184) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-client-admin-original-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]                           
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyInvocation$1.failed(JerseyInvocation.java:882) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                             
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime.processFailure(ClientRuntime.java:247) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                             
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime.processFailure(ClientRuntime.java:242) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                             
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime.access$100(ClientRuntime.java:62) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                                  
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime$2.lambda$failure$1(ClientRuntime.java:178) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                         
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:248) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                                                 
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:244) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                                                 
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:292) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                                                
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:274) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                                                
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:244) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                                                
at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:288) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-common-2.34.jar:?]                                         
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientRuntime$2.failure(ClientRuntime.java:178) ~[org.glassfish.jersey.core-jersey-client-2.34.jar:?]                                                  
at org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector.lambda$apply$1(AsyncHttpConnector.java:204) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-client-admin-original-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8.1.5]    
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniWhenComplete(CompletableFuture.java:859) ~[?:?]                                                                                          
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniWhenComplete.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:837) ~[?:?]                                                                                  
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:506) ~[?:?]                                                                                             
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeExceptionally(CompletableFuture.java:2088) ~[?:?]                                                                                   
at org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector.lambda$retryOperation$4(AsyncHttpConnector.java:263) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-client-admin-original-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniWhenComplete(CompletableFuture.java:859) [?:?]                                                                                           
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniWhenComplete.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:837) [?:?]                                                                                   
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:506) [?:?]                                                                                              
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeExceptionally(CompletableFuture.java:2088) [?:?]                                                                                           
at org.asynchttpclient.netty.NettyResponseFuture.abort(NettyResponseFuture.java:273) [org.asynchttpclient-async-http-client-2.12.1.jar:?]                                             
at org.asynchttpclient.netty.request.NettyRequestSender.abort(NettyRequestSender.java:473) [org.asynchttpclient-async-http-client-2.12.1.jar:?]                                       
at org.asynchttpclient.netty.handler.HttpHandler.readFailed(HttpHandler.java:161) [org.asynchttpclient-async-http-client-2.12.1.jar:?]                                                
at org.asynchttpclient.netty.handler.HttpHandler.handleRead(HttpHandler.java:154) [org.asynchttpclient-async-http-client-2.12.1.jar:?]                                                
at org.asynchttpclient.netty.handler.AsyncHttpClientHandler.channelRead(AsyncHttpClientHandler.java:78) [org.asynchttpclient-async-http-client-2.12.1.jar:?]                          
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                    
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.channelRead(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:103) [io.netty-netty-codec-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                    
at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler$DelegatingChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:436) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:324) [io.netty-netty-codec-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                    
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:296) [io.netty-netty-codec-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                        
at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.channelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:251) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                          
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:357) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                    
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1410) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                         
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:365) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                  
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:919) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                  
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:166) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                           
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:719) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                               
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:655) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                     
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:581) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                              
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:493) [io.netty-netty-transport-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                                              
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:986) [io.netty-netty-common-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                 
at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) [io.netty-netty-common-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                                    
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30) [io.netty-netty-common-4.1.68.Final.jar:4.1.68.Final]                                        
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) [?:?]                                                                                                                                        
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 Caused by: java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector$RetryException: Could not complete the operation. Number of retries h
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:331) ~[?:?]                                                                                          
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:346) ~[?:?]                                                                                        
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$OrApply.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:1503) ~[?:?]                                                                                         
... 39 more                                                                                                                                                                           
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 Caused by: org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector$RetryException: Could not complete the operation. Number of retries has been exhausted. Failed reason: Maximum 
at org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.internal.http.AsyncHttpConnector.lambda$retryOperation$4(AsyncHttpConnector.java:265) ~[io.streamnative-pulsar-client-admin-original-2.8.1.5.jar:2.8
... 36 more                                                                                                                                                                           
pulsar-blt-sn-platform-broker-0 Caused by: org.asynchttpclient.handler.MaxRedirectException: Maximum redirect reached: 5

[zbentley]

@lhotari thanks! I haven’t gone back through the repro steps of this family of issues in several months. In March of 22 I’ll set aside some time for trying to repro these on master and will close things up if the linked fixes have helped. Thanks for taking a look!

[zbentley]

The following issues were all observed in response to similar testing: https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-cpp/issues/86 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12556 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12555 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12554 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12553 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12552 https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/12551

The condition that caused these issues to occur appears to be interaction with various pulsar entities (e.g. creating/deleting things in the management API, or attempting to create consumers) immediately after those entities were created or immediately after entities with the same name were deleted.

I think the number of issues observed speaks to a defect in the management API functionality in general. Considering the severity of these issues (in many cases it is possible to force a topic/namespace into a permanently corrupted state), I hope a resolution can be found for the general/common root cause rather than fixing individual bug-inducing conditions.

I suspect that the common root cause is that many management API operations are asynchronous that should not be.

Ideally, the resolution of all of these issues would be the same: a management API operation–any operation–should not return successfully until all observable side effects of that operation across a Pulsar cluster (including brokers, proxies, bookies, and ZK) were completed. All caches of metadata (e.g. on all brokers/proxies in the cluster) related to the operation should be cleared, and all persistent state (including ledger deletion, bookie cleanup, ZooKeeper metadata, etc.) should be updated during management API operations, and not afterwards.

If that means that management API operations take many seconds or minutes, that’s still vastly preferable to not knowing when it is safe to interact with a cluster again after performing “DDL”-type changes.