[KAFKA-259] Give better error message when trying to run shell scripts without having built/downloaded the jars yet

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Labels: newbie
• Environment: Mac OSX Lion
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ross Crawford-d'Heureuse
• Created: 31/Jan/12 12:40
• Updated: 30/May/13 03:27
• Resolved: 30/May/13 03:27

Description

Hi there, I've cloned from the kafka github repo and tried to run the start server script:

./bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

Which results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: kafka/Kafka
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: kafka.Kafka
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

It seems that Im missing a build step? what have I forgotten to do?

Thanks in advance and I look forward to using kafka.

regards
rcdh