apache zookeeper - Kafka 1.0 stops with FATAL SHUTDOWN error. Logs directory failed

Question

I have just upgraded to Kafka 1.0 and zookeeper 3.4.10.At first, it all started fine. Stand - alone producer and consumer worked as expected. After I've ran my code for about 10 minutes, Kafka fails with this error:

[2017-11-07 16:48:01,304] INFO Stopping serving logs in dir C:Kafkakafka_2.12-1.0.0kafka-logs (kafka.log.LogManager)

[2017-11-07 16:48:01,320] FATAL Shutdown broker because all log dirs in C:Kafkakafka_2.12-1.0.0kafka-logs have failed (kafka.log.LogManager)

I have reinstalled and reconfigured Kafka 1.0 again, the same thing happened. If I try to restart, the same error occurs.

Deleting log files helps to start Kafka, but it fails again after the short run.

I have been running 0.10.2 version for a long while, and never encountered anything like this, it was very stable over the long periods of time.

I have tried to find a solution and followed instructions in the documentation.

This is not yet a production environment, it is fairly simple setup, one producer, one consumer reading from one topic.

I am not sure if this could have anything to do with zookeeper.

**Update: ** the issue has been posted at Apache JIRA board The consensus so far seems to be that it is a Windows issue.

Answer 1

Ran into this issue as well, and only clearing the kafka-logs did not work. You'll also have to clear zookeeper.

Steps to resolve:

1. Make sure to stop zookeeper.

2. Take a look at your server.properties file and locate the logs directory under the following entry.

   Example:
   log.dirs=/tmp/kafka-logs/
   

3. Delete the log directory and its contents. Kafka will recreate the directory once it's started again.

4. Take a look at the zookeeper.properties file and locate the data directory under the following entry.

   Example:
   dataDir=/tmp/zookeeper
   

5. Delete the data directory and its contents. Zookeeper will recreate the directory once it's started again.

6. Start zookeeper.

   <KAFKA_HOME>bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh -daemon <KAFKA_HOME>config/zookeeper.properties
   

7. Start the kakfa broker.

   <KAFKA_HOME>bin/kafka-server-start.sh -daemon <KAFKA_HOME>config/server.properties
   

8. Verify the broker has started with no issues by looking at the logs/kafkaServer.out log file.