Reassigning Partition Failing

Hi All,

I had a 0.8.1.1 Kafka Broker go down, and I was trying to use the reassign partition script to move topics off that broker. When I describe the topics, I see the following:

Topic: mini__022____active_120__33__mini Partition: 0 Leader: 2131118 Replicas: 2131118,2166601,2163421 Isr: 2131118,2166601

This shows that the broker “2163421” is down. So I create the following file /tmp/move_topic.json:

"version": 1,
"partitions": [

"topic": "mini__022____active_120__33__mini",
"partition": 0,
"replicas": [
2131118, 2166601, 2156998

And then do this:

./kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --execute --reassignment-json-file /tmp/move_topic.json
Successfully started reassignment of partitions {"version":1,"partitions":[{"topic":"mini__022____active_120__33__mini","partition":0,"replicas":[2131118,2166601,2156998]}]}

However, when I try to verify this, I get the following error:
./kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --verify --reassignment-json-file /tmp/move_topic.json
Status of partition reassignment:
ERROR: Assigned replicas (2131118,2166601,2156998,2163421) don't match the list of replicas for reassignment (2131118,2166601,2156998) for partition [mini__022____active_120__33__mini,0]
Reassignment of partition [mini__022____active_120__33__mini,0] failed

If I describe the topics, I now see there are 4 replicas. This has been like this for many hours now, so it seems to have permanently moved to 4 replicas for some reason.
Topic:mini__022____active_120__33__mini PartitionCount:1 ReplicationFactor:4 Configs:
Topic: mini__022____active_120__33__mini Partition: 0 Leader: 2131118 Replicas: 2131118,2166601,2156998,2163421 Isr: 2131118,2166601

If I re-execute and re-verify, I get the same error. So it seems to be wedged.

Can someone help?

Paul Lung