There has been a lot of changes, and it can also be quit a challenge to get the SSL working. And with only a null-pointer, there is little to go on. I would first focus on getting it to work with 0.10 (if possible also on a clustered test setup), and if it all works, try to configure the ssl.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:08 PM Subhash Agrawal <agraw...@opentext.com> wrote: > Hi, > I currently embed kafka 0.7.1 in my java process. To support SSL, we have > decided to upgrade Kafka to 0.10.0. > After upgrade, I am seeing following error during kafka startup. > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at kafka.utils.Throttler.<init>(Throttler.scala:45) > at kafka.log.LogCleaner.<init>(LogCleaner.scala:75) > at kafka.log.LogManager.<init>(LogManager.scala:66) > at > kafka.server.KafkaServer.createLogManager(KafkaServer.scala:609) > at kafka.server.KafkaServer.startup(KafkaServer.scala:183) > > Has anybody seen this error? If I run kafka externally, then I don't see > this error. > > Thanks > Subhash A. > > > From: Subhash Agrawal > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 12:40 PM > To: 'us...@kafka.apache.org' > Subject: Migrating from 07.1 .100 > > Hi, > I am currently using Kafka 0.7.1 without zookeeper. We have single node > kafka server. > To enhance security, we have decided to support SSL. As 0.7.1 version does > not support SSL, > we are upgrading to latest version 0.10.0.0. We noticed that with the > latest version, it is > mandatory to use zookeeper. > > Is there any way I can use Kafka 0.10 or 0.9 version without zookeeper? > > Thanks > Subhash A. > >