Hi there, I've just installed kafka 0.9.0.1, and I'm getting the following error when launching the kafka-console-consumer:
$ bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic myrandomtesttopic --from-beginning [2016-03-30 15:46:17,568] ERROR Unknown error when running consumer: (kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$) *kafka.common.ConsumerRebalanceFailedException: console-consumer-84710_stg02-1459349168698-425dcf53 can't rebalance after 4 retries* at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener.syncedRebalance(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:660) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$$reinitializeConsumer(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:967) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector$WildcardStreamsHandler.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:1001) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.createMessageStreamsByFilter(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:163) at kafka.consumer.OldConsumer.<init>(BaseConsumer.scala:75) at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$.run(ConsoleConsumer.scala:63) at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer$.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala:47) at kafka.tools.ConsoleConsumer.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala) On logs/zookeeper.out there's only: [2016-03-30 15:46:17,902] WARN caught end of stream exception (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn) EndOfStreamException: Unable to read additional data from client sessionid 0x153c7e67216000e, likely client has closed socket at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn.doIO(NIOServerCnxn.java:228) at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory.run(NIOServerCnxnFactory.java:208) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [2016-03-30 15:46:17,903] INFO Closed socket connection for client / 127.0.0.1:8857 which had sessionid 0x153c7e67216000e (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn) [...] Any idea what this may be about? :-\ Thanks, Filipe