Hi, It seems (from VerifiableProperties.scala - https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/utils/VerifiableProperties.scala#L224) that you are providing some property which kafka does not recognise Please share the full command that you are trying to use
Regards, Prabhjot On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Sathyakumar Seshachalam < sathyakumar_seshacha...@trimble.com> wrote: > Am trying to get started on Kafka and following instructions on > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart. > Am setting up on a single broker. I got as far as creating topics and > listing them, but when I try kafka-console-producer.sh to add messages, I > ended up in below error. > > [2015-10-28 14:14:46,140] WARN Property topic is not valid > (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties). > > My google searches generally hinted that I should set the right value for “ > advertised.host.name”, But setting that has no effect. > Any help overcoming this will be appreciated. > > Am running version kafka_2.11-0.8.2.1.tgz on OS X. > > Regards, > Sathya > > -- --------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't"