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/usr/lib/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh

Community edition of Confluent Kafka.

From confluent-kafka 8.4.0.215-r1 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running kafka-server-start.sh --help (exit 1) · terse output. permalink

[0.000s][error][logging] Error opening log file '/usr/lib/kafka/bin/../logs/kafkaServer-gc.log': Read-only file system
[0.000s][error][logging] Initialization of output 'file=/usr/lib/kafka/bin/../logs/kafkaServer-gc.log' using options 'filecount=10,filesize=100M' failed.
Invalid -Xlog option '-Xlog:gc*:file=/usr/lib/kafka/bin/../logs/kafkaServer-gc.log:time,tags:filecount=10,filesize=100M', see error log for details.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

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