The topic name should only consist of ascii characters and '_' and '-'. I agree that this error message is misleading though. Which version of Kafka are you running ?
Thanks, Neha On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Yu, Libo <libo...@citi.com> wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to launch the server, I got this exception: > [2013-05-09 11:38:04,106] INFO Loading log 'lost+found' > (kafka.log.LogManage > r) > [2013-05-09 11:38:04,108] FATAL Fatal error during KafkaServerStable > startup > . Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable) > java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 > at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1911) > at > kafka.log.LogManager.kafka$log$LogManager$$parseTopicPartitionNam > e(LogManager.scala:320) > at > kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$1$$anonfun$apply$3.apply(L > ogManager.scala:115) > at > kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$1$$anonfun$apply$3.apply(L > ogManager.scala:112) > at > scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:34) > at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:34) > at > kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$1.apply(LogManager.scala:112) > at > kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$1.apply(LogManager.scala:104) > at > scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:34) > at > scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:32) > at kafka.log.LogManager.loadLogs(LogManager.scala:104) > at kafka.log.LogManager.<init>(LogManager.scala:56) > at kafka.server.KafkaServer.createLogManager(KafkaServer.scala:181) > at kafka.server.KafkaServer.startup(KafkaServer.scala:67) > > Regards, > > Libo > >
