[KAFKA-12658] bin/kafka-metadata-shell.sh cannot find or load main class org.apache.kafka.shell.MetadataShell

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: core
• Environment: Ubuntu, Java 11
• Assignee: Ismael Juma
• Reporter: Israel Ekpo
• Created: 13/Apr/21 01:24
• Updated: 13/Apr/21 13:14
• Resolved: 13/Apr/21 05:33

Description

With the latest release candidate for 2.8.0, the binaries from the Scala 2.13 and 2.12 tarballs are not finding the class for the meta data shell from the classpath 
https://home.apache.org/~vvcephei/kafka-2.8.0-rc1/
 
kafka-run-class.sh is not able to load it.
 
cd ../kafka_2.12-2.8.0$
 
 bin/kafka-metadata-shell.sh --help
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.kafka.shell.MetadataShell
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.kafka.shell.MetadataShell

cd ../kafka_2.13-2.8.0/

bin/kafka-metadata-shell.sh --help
Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.kafka.shell.MetadataShell
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.kafka.shell.MetadataShell

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10531