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[receiver/kafka] Fix bug that was blocking shutdown #32720

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Description:

The kafka receiver's shutdown method is to cancel the context of a running sub goroutine. However, a small bug was causing a fatal error to be reported during shutdown when this expected condition was hit. The fatal error being reported during shutdown was causing another bug to be hit, open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9824.

This fix means that shutdown won't be blocked in expected shutdown conditions, but the core bug referenced above means shutdown will still be block in unexpected error situations.

This fix is being taken from a comment made by @Dennis8274 on the issue.

Link to tracking Issue:
Fixes #30789

Testing:
Stepped through TestTracesReceiverStart in a debugger before the change to see the fatal status being reported. It was no longer reported after applying the fix. Manually tested running the collector with a kafka receiver and saw that before the fix it was indeed being blocked on a normal shutdown, but after the fix it shutdown as expected.

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<!--Ex. Fixing a bug - Describe the bug and how this fixes the issue.
Ex. Adding a feature - Explain what this achieves.-->
#### Description
Fixes an issue where the Kafka receiver would block on shutdown.

There was an earlier fix for this issue
[here](#32720).
This does solve the issue, but it was only applied to the traces
receiver, not the logs or metrics receiver.

The issue is this go routine in the `Start()` functions for logs and
metrics:
```go
go func() {
        if err := c.consumeLoop(ctx, metricsConsumerGroup); err != nil {
		componentstatus.ReportStatus(host, componentstatus.NewFatalErrorEvent(err))
	}
}()
```

The `consumeLoop()` function returns a `context.Canceled` error when
`Shutdown()` is called, which is expected. However
`componentstatus.ReportStatus()` blocks while attempting to report this
error. The reason/bug for this can be found
[here](open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#9824).

The previously mentioned PR fixed this for the traces receiver by
checking if the error returned by `consumeLoop()` is `context.Canceled`:
```go
go func() {
	if err := c.consumeLoop(ctx, consumerGroup); !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
		componentstatus.ReportStatus(host, componentstatus.NewFatalErrorEvent(err))
	}
}()
```

Additionally, this is `consumeLoop()` for the traces receiver, with the
logs and metrics versions being identical:
```go
func (c *kafkaTracesConsumer) consumeLoop(ctx context.Context, handler sarama.ConsumerGroupHandler) error {
	for {
		// `Consume` should be called inside an infinite loop, when a
		// server-side rebalance happens, the consumer session will need to be
		// recreated to get the new claims
		if err := c.consumerGroup.Consume(ctx, c.topics, handler); err != nil {
			c.settings.Logger.Error("Error from consumer", zap.Error(err))
		}
		// check if context was cancelled, signaling that the consumer should stop
		if ctx.Err() != nil {
			c.settings.Logger.Info("Consumer stopped", zap.Error(ctx.Err()))
			return ctx.Err()
		}
	}
}
```

This does fix the issue, however the only error that can be returned by
`consumeLoop()` is a canceled context. When we create the context and
cancel function, we use `context.Background()`:
```go
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
```
This context is only used by `consumeLoop()` and the cancel function is
only called in `Shutdown()`.

Because `consumeLoop()` can only return a `context.Canceled` error, this
PR removes this unused code for the logs, metrics, and traces receivers.
Instead, `consumeLoop()` still logs the `context.Canceled` error but it
does not return any error and the go routine simply just calls
`consumeLoop()`.

Additional motivation for removing the call to
`componentstatus.ReportStatus()` is the underlying function called by
it, `componentstatus.Report()` says it does not need to be called during
`Shutdown()` or `Start()` as the service already does so for the given
component, [comment
here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/component/componentstatus/status.go#L21-L25).
Even if there wasn't a bug causing this call to block, the component
still shouldn't call it since it would only be called during
`Shutdown()`.

<!-- Issue number (e.g. #1234) or full URL to issue, if applicable. -->
#### Link to tracking issue
Fixes #30789

<!--Describe what testing was performed and which tests were added.-->
#### Testing
Tested in a build of the collector with these changes scraping logs from
a Kafka instance. When the collector is stopped and `Shutdown()` gets
called, the receiver did not block and the collector stopped gracefully
as expected.
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Kafka receiver stuck while shutting down at v0.93.0
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