Hi I was able to get the quickstart instructions working recently but I used the
(1) binary download (2) I did not use the zookeeper packaged with Kafka. I installed zookeeper using a download from the zookeeper projects. ( I did get a lot of exceptions with the packaged zookeeper) regards On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks I will look into that resource. Using the tgz is working it turns > out I was symlinked back to the src dir when encountering the issue. > > > 2014-04-17 6:37 GMT-07:00 Bert Corderman <b...@corderman.com>: > > > I cant speak to the quick start , however I found the following very > > helpful when I was getting started. > > > > > > > http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/13/running-a-multi-broker-apache-kafka-cluster-on-a-single-node/ > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I have tried to use kafka both building form source via gradle as well > as > > > un tgz-ing the tarball. Either way, none of the scripts work in the way > > > described in the Quick Start section. > > > > > > Following is an example : > > > > > > 6:15:40/kafka:91 $bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh > > config/zookeeper.properties > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > > org/apache/zookeeper/server/quorum/QuorumPeerMain > > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > > > org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > > > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > > > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > > > > > > -- http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/
