Hi Neeraj, Have you tried with a newer version of Kafka? Unfortunately, the 3.6.x series has reached end of life. If possible try with 3.9.0, this version contains some fixes and features related to KRaft.
Best, ------------------ Josep Prat Open Source Engineering Director, Aiven josep.p...@aiven.io | +491715557497 | aiven.io Aiven Deutschland GmbH Alexanderufer 3-7, 10117 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa, Hannu Valtonen, Anna Richardson, Kenneth Chen Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 09:21 Neeraj Gupta <om.neeraj.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Kafka team, > > I am using kafka_2.13-3.6.0.tgz in my mac book and while starting kafka > cluster using kraft mode getting below error. > > neerajgupta@Neerajs-MacBook-Pro kafka % ./bin/kafka-server-start.sh > config/kraft/server-1.properties > > [2025-02-21 13:21:27,051] INFO Registered kafka:type=kafka.Log4jController > MBean (kafka.utils.Log4jControllerRegistration$) > > [2025-02-21 13:21:27,325] INFO Setting -D > jdk.tls.rejectClientInitiatedRenegotiation=true to disable client-initiated > TLS renegotiation (org.apache.zookeeper.common.X509Util) > > [2025-02-21 13:21:27,429] ERROR Exiting Kafka due to fatal exception > (kafka.Kafka$) > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No MetadataVersion with metadata > version 21 > > at > org.apache.kafka.server.common.MetadataVersion.fromFeatureLevel(MetadataVersion.java:480) > > at > org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapMetadata.recordToMetadataVersion(BootstrapMetadata.java:70) > > at > org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapMetadata.fromRecords(BootstrapMetadata.java:54) > > at > org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapDirectory.readFromBinaryFile(BootstrapDirectory.java:106) > > at > org.apache.kafka.metadata.bootstrap.BootstrapDirectory.read(BootstrapDirectory.java:78) > > at > kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer$.initializeLogDirs(KafkaRaftServer.scala:168) > > at kafka.server.KafkaRaftServer.<init>(KafkaRaftServer.scala:57) > > at kafka.Kafka$.buildServer(Kafka.scala:83) > > at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:91) > > at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) > > > > Attaching configuration for server-1.properties, server-2.properties and > server-3.properties files > > > Please assist me. > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Neeraj Gupta >
