For completeness, you are probably running into: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1451
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > These are info messages, not necessarily errors. > > Do they occur in a never ending loop? Do you also see errors? > Do you ever get a successful broker registration message in the log? > (Registered broker 1 at path....) > > Gwen > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Shikha Srivastava > <ssrivast...@rubiconproject.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am working with kafka_2.8.0-0.8.1.1. It used to work fine but since this >> morning when I try to start the kafka-server after starting zookeeper, I am >> getting this error- >> >> INFO I wrote this conflicted ephemeral node >> [{"version":1,"brokerid":0,"timestamp":"1407357554030"}] at /controller a >> while back in a different session, hence I will backoff for this node to be >> deleted by Zookeeper and retry (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$) >> >> [2014-08-06 13:49:22,103] INFO conflict in /controller data: >> {"version":1,"brokerid":0,"timestamp":"1407357554030"} stored data: >> {"version":1,"brokerid":0,"timestamp":"1407349766568"} >> (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$) >> >> >> I tried to stop both kafka and zookeeper and cleared all the logs and then >> tried starting it again but I am still getting this error. >> >> Can you guide me to the root cause? >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> Shikha