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,
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