Problem scenario
You try to start the Apache Kafka service. You get this:
[2021-07-25 12:15:36,687] INFO [Group Metadata Manager on Broker 1]: Finished loading offsets from [__consumer_offsets,24] in 123456789 milliseconds.
GroupMetadataManager…Finished loading offsets and group metadata from __consumer_offsets…seconds spent in the scheduler. (kafka.coordinator.group.GroupMetadataManager)
It just hangs and will not progress. What do you do?
Solution
Whenever a command hangs that is supposed to start a service, there could be one, ignorable errors. The problem could be obviated by a service that runs the command in the background. How did you start the Kafka service? Did you use the flag "-daemon"?
Try this:
kafka-server-start.sh -daemon /root/kafka/config/server.propertiesTaken from http://tecmint.com/install-apache-kafka-in-centos-rhel/