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Guozhang Wang resolved KAFKA-5118. ---------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 0.11.0.0 Issue resolved by pull request 2907 [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2907] > Improve message for Kafka failed startup with non-Kafka data in data.dirs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-5118 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5118 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.10.2.0 > Reporter: Dustin Cote > Assignee: huxi > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.11.0.0 > > > Today, if you try to startup a broker with some non-Kafka data in the > data.dirs you end up with a cryptic message: > {code} > [2017-04-21 13:35:08,122] ERROR There was an error in one of the threads > during logs loading: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index > out of range: -1 (kafka.log.LogManager) > [2017-04-21 13:35:08,124] FATAL [Kafka Server 3], Fatal error during > KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer) > java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 > {code} > It'd be better if we could tell the user to look for non-Kafka data in the > data.dirs and print out the offending directory that caused the problem in > the first place. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)