Kafka server not starting on windows, kafka-server-start.bat returning no output

Question

Please help me in making Kafka server up and run, I could able to run zookeeper perfectly fine but when I run kafka-server-start.bat D:\Kafka\config\Server.properties command console returning no output.

Note: I have changed log.dirs to my local folder.

Kafka- Command output

Here is server.properties configuration

broker.id=0
num.network.threads=3
num.io.threads=8
socket.send.buffer.bytes=102400
socket.receive.buffer.bytes=102400
socket.request.max.bytes=104857600
log.dirs=D:\kafka\kafkalogs
num.partitions=1
num.recovery.threads.per.data.dir=1
offsets.topic.replication.factor=1
transaction.state.log.replication.factor=1
transaction.state.log.min.isr=1
log.retention.hours=168
log.segment.bytes=1073741824
log.retention.check.interval.ms=300000
zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181
zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms=6000
group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms=0

Answer 1

I found the problem, it was due to missing C:\Windows\System32 in the environment path of the system variable, after adding below including wbem, it resolves the issue. Thanks!

%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SystemRoot%\System32;SystemRoot%

Answer 2

I had the very same problem and for me the cause was the JAVA_HOME Windows environment variable pointing to a JRE and not a JDK.

I updated the environment variable in the control panel to point to a Java 8 JDK and Kafka started working.

Attention: for some reason setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable in the .bat file or at command line level did not work, I had to set it using the Windows Control Panel.