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

Check status of topic at zookeeper

bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
Output: topic shows marked for deletion

Setting delete.topic.enable=true in server.properties was not working as well.

Solution: Check the zookeeper data directory location in zookeeper.properties file. it was dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper.
Issue got resolved after updating "dataDir" to a new location.

dataDir=zk-temp
# the port at which the clients will connect
clientPort=2181
# disable the per-ip limit on the number of connections since this is a non-production config
maxClientCnxns=0