[KAFKA-14689] Kafka won't start on Windows in KRaft mode

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Environment: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro ; 10.0.19045 Build 19045 ; OpenJDK build 17.0.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kedar Joshi
• Created: 07/Feb/23 16:29
• Updated: 08/Feb/23 03:06
• Resolved: 08/Feb/23 03:06

Description

Kafka 3.4 is unable to start in KRaft mode on Windows 10.

Kafka is started in Kafka directory with -

bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\kraft\server.properties 

but it always fails with following exception -

Caused by: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: D:\LocationGuru\Servers\Kafka-3.4\.\tmp\kraft-combined-logs\__cluster_metadata-0\quorum-state.tmp -> D:\LocationGuru\Servers\Kafka-3.4\.\tmp\kraft-combined-logs\__cluster_metadata-0\quorum-state: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:92)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:103)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileCopy.move(WindowsFileCopy.java:403)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.move(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:293)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.move(Files.java:1430)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.atomicMoveWithFallback(Utils.java:949)
        at org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils.atomicMoveWithFallback(Utils.java:932)
        at org.apache.kafka.raft.FileBasedStateStore.writeElectionStateToFile(FileBasedStateStore.java:152)
        ... 15 more 

Issue Links

• duplicates: KAFKA-14273 Kafka doesn't start with KRaft on Windows