When/how does a topic “marked for deletion” get finally removed?

Question

I have issued the command to delete a topic:

./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic  vip_ips_alerts

It seemed to

Answer 1

My issue was something similar. I deleted a topic and it was giving me the same message when I was listing all the topics.

I brought down the zookeeper and the broker. set the delete.topic.enable=true in my broker config file started zookeeper and the boker

The topic was gone...thanks to Jacek Laskowski