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 --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

I get the error as follows:

Error while executing topic command replication factor: 1 larger than available
brokers: 0
kafka.admin.AdminOperationException: replication factor: 1 larger than available
 brokers: 0
        at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.assignReplicasToBrokers(AdminUtils.scala:70)
        at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.createTopic(AdminUtils.scala:171)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.createTopic(TopicCommand.scala:93)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:55)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)

[2015-10-13 14:25:38,607] INFO Processed session termination for sessionid: 0x15
06056566d0004 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor)
[2015-10-13 14:25:38,608] INFO Closed socket connection for client /127.0.0.1:33
391 which had sessionid 0x1506056566d0004 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServer
Cnxn)

How can I resolve the issue? Any good documentation to get started with this? Thanks!!

Answer 1

Seems like your server not started , check logs for issue

Kill process

sudo fuser -k 2181/tcp 

run zookeeper

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

Run Kafka

bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties  '  

Answer 2

If I were you I would try this code:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181/kafka --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

If you are using a cluster where zookeeper be distributed in 3 nodes you should substitue localhost:2181/kafka for direccion1:2181,direction2:2181,direction3:2181/kafka