Kafka Unrecognized VM option 'PrintGCDateStamps'

Question

I installed Kafka on a remote server, and when I tried to run

~/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ~/kafka/config/zookeeper.properties

And I r

Answer 1

Same issue on Ubuntu 16.04 with oracle jdk 9 installed, I have also tried openjdk 1.9 and got the same error. But when I try other version jdk, I found that oracle jdk 8 and openjdk 1.8 are both ok.

So just check out what version of java you're using, maybe you can install or switch to other version of jdk by:

update-alternatives --display java
update-alternatives --config java
java -version