Kafka: unable to start Kafka - process can not access file 00000000000000000000.timeindex

Question

Kafka enthusiast, need little help here. I am unable to start kafka because the file \00000000000000000000.timeindex is being used by another process. Below are the logs:

[2017-08-09 22:49:22,811] FATAL [Kafka Server 0], Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
java.nio.file.FileSystemException: \installation\kafka_2.11-0.11.0.0\log\test-0\00000000000000000000.timeindex: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:86)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:102)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.implDelete(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:269)
        at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)
        at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)
        at kafka.log.Log$$anonfun$loadSegmentFiles$3.apply(Log.scala:311)
        at kafka.log.Log$$anonfun$loadSegmentFiles$3.apply(Log.scala:272)
        at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:733)
        at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
        at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:186)
        at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.foreach(TraversableLike.scala:732)
        at kafka.log.Log.loadSegmentFiles(Log.scala:272)
        at kafka.log.Log.loadSegments(Log.scala:376)
        at kafka.log.Log.<init>(Log.scala:179)
        at kafka.log.Log$.apply(Log.scala:1580)
        at kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$2$$anonfun$5$$anonfun$apply$12$$anonfun$apply$1.apply$mcV$sp(LogManager.scala:172)
        at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$$anon$1.run(CoreUtils.scala:57)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[2017-08-09 22:49:22,826] INFO [Kafka Server 0], shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaServer)

Answer 1

I had the same issue. The only way I could figure it out that was just delete the C:\tmp\kafka-logs directory. After that i was able to start up the kafka server.

You will lose your data and the offset will start from 0.