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Neha Narkhede commented on KAFKA-799: ------------------------------------- Bob, You are right, we should detect that an 0.8 broker is trying to talk to a 0.7 zookeeper and throw a meaningful error. KAFKA-686 is filed to fix that issue. We can fix the infinite loop as part of that as well. > Infinite loop trying to start a broker > --------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-799 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-799 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: controller > Affects Versions: 0.8 > Environment: Mac OS X 10.7.5 > Reporter: Bob > Assignee: Swapnil Ghike > Priority: Blocker > Labels: patch > > I followed the quickstart instructions > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+0.8+Quick+Start > It caused an infinite loop while trying to start a broker. > [2013-03-08 16:55:19,287] ERROR Error while electing or becoming leader on > broker 1 (kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector) > kafka.common.KafkaException: Can't parse json string: null > at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:20) > at kafka.utils.Json$.parseFull(Json.scala:16) > at > kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$1.apply(ZkUtils.scala:484) > at > kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$1.apply(ZkUtils.scala:480) > at > scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61) > at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45) > at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getReplicaAssignmentForTopics(ZkUtils.scala:480) > at > kafka.controller.KafkaController.initializeControllerContext(KafkaController.scala:451) > at > kafka.controller.KafkaController.onControllerFailover(KafkaController.scala:225) > at > kafka.controller.KafkaController$$anonfun$1.apply$mcV$sp(KafkaController.scala:87) > at kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector.elect(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:53) > at > kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector$LeaderChangeListener.handleDataDeleted(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:106) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$6.run(ZkClient.java:549) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread.run(ZkEventThread.java:71) > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > scala.util.parsing.combinator.lexical.Scanners$Scanner.<init>(Scanners.scala:52) > at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseRaw(JSON.scala:71) > at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseFull(JSON.scala:85) > at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:17) > ... 13 more > I tracked the issue to unhandled Java null string in these 2 methods in > ZkUtils: getReplicaAssignmentForTopics, getPartitionAssignmentForTopics. > I am submitting a patch with the fixes. Now quickstart works fine for me. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira