Hi, If you get the following errors, check your server.properties file and find all the 'zk.' and change to 'zookeeper.'
I know the change was posted yesterday, but here is the error in case someone missed that email. [2013-04-30 15:24:31,165] FATAL Fatal error during KafkaServerStable startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:361) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.<init>(ClientCnxn.java:332) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.<init>(ZooKeeper.java:383) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.connect(ZkConnection.java:64) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.connect(ZkClient.java:872) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:98) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.<init>(ZkClient.java:84) at kafka.common.KafkaZookeeperClient$.getZookeeperClient(KafkaZookeperClient.scala:31) at kafka.server.KafkaZooKeeper.startup(KafkaZooKeeper.scala:39) at kafka.server.KafkaServer.startup(KafkaServer.scala:78) at kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable.startup(KafkaServerStartable.scala:34) at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:46) at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) [2013-04-30 15:24:31,168] INFO [Kafka Server 4], shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaServer) Chris