[KAFKA-6918] Kafka server fails to start with IBM JAVA

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nayana Thorat
• Created: 18/May/18 15:16
• Updated: 23/Jul/18 17:50
• Resolved: 23/Jul/18 17:50

Description

Kafka server start fails with below error:

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

ERROR:

(kafka.server.KafkaConfig)

 FATAL  (kafka.Kafka$)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Signal already used by VM: INT

        at com.ibm.misc.SignalDispatcher.registerSignal(SignalDispatcher.java:127)

        at sun.misc.Signal.handle(Signal.java:184)

        at kafka.Kafka$.registerHandler$1(Kafka.scala:67)

        at kafka.Kafka$.registerLoggingSignalHandler(Kafka.scala:74)

        at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:85)

        at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala)

                             

Tried with binaries and well as built  Apache Kafka(v1.0.0) from source.

Installed  IBM SDK on Ubuntu 16.04.

IBM java link:

wget http://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/systems/cloud/runtimes/java/8.0.5.10/linux/x86_64/ibm-java-sdk-8.0-5.10-x86_64-archive.bin