Error creating Kafka Topics- Replication factor larger than available brokers

Question

I am trying to create topics in Kafka by following the guide on Apache Kafka website through command line. While running the command:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --c         


        

Answer 1

make sure the kafka server has started properly. If you are using -dameon parameter to start kafka server as daemon. Try to remove it and see if there are any errors during the startup.

The issue I ran into turned out to be a file access issue, where the user runs kafka doesn't have access to the log directory I configured. After I granted the access, it just works!