The configuration doc <http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/configuration.html>said for broker's zk.connect string we can
Specifies the zookeeper connection string in the form hostname:port/chroot while after i set chroot,error occurred: [2012-05-29 18:13:44,737] INFO Registering broker /brokers/ids/0 > (kafka.server.KafkaZooKeeper) > [2012-05-29 18:13:44,806] FATAL Fatal error during KafkaServerStable > startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable) > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path length must be > 0 > at > org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:48) > at > org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:35) > at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.create(ZooKeeper.java:626) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.create(ZkConnection.java:87) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$1.call(ZkClient.java:308) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$1.call(ZkClient.java:304) > at > org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.create(ZkClient.java:304) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:213) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:223) > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:223) > at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createParentPath(ZkUtils.scala:47) > at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createEphemeralPath(ZkUtils.scala:59) > at > kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createEphemeralPathExpectConflict(ZkUtils.scala:71) > at > kafka.server.KafkaZooKeeper.registerBrokerInZk(KafkaZooKeeper.scala:54) > at kafka.log.LogManager.startup(LogManager.scala:123) > at kafka.server.KafkaServer.startup(KafkaServer.scala:80) > at > kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable.startup(KafkaServerStartable.scala:34) > at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:50) > at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) without chroot,it works fine any idea? PS.I'm using the latest version from trunk -- Best Regards ---------------------- 刘明敏 | mmLiu
