Sometimes kafka container is not starting properly

[fmachi]

I have a very strange issue using the last version of this docker image. Given the following docker-compose:

version: '3'
services:
  kafka:
    image: wurstmeister/kafka:latest
    ports:
      - "9092:9092"
    environment:
      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME=kafka
      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_PORT=9092
      - KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=zookeeper:2181
      - KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS=(my topic list)
    depends_on:
      - zookeeper
  zookeeper:
    image: wurstmeister/zookeeper
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"
    environment:
      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME=zookeeper

sometimes (on travis) it fails with the following error. The strange thing is that doesn't fail all the times.
Locally I was never able to reproduce it

kafka_1 | waiting for kafka to be ready
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'advertised.port' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | Excluding KAFKA_HOME from broker config
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'advertised.host.name' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'port' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'broker.id' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | Excluding KAFKA_VERSION from broker config
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'zookeeper.connect' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | [Configuring] 'log.dirs' in '/opt/kafka/config/server.properties'
kafka_1 | Error occurred during initialization of VM
kafka_1 | The flag -XX:+UseG1GC can not be combined with -XX:ParallelGCThreads=0

Thanks a lot!

[ynleborg]

Since today, I have exactly the same problem. But in my case it fails every time on one machine.

[slobberbone]

In case of ... I've got this error too on a LXC running on Proxmox.
Thanks to itzg/docker-minecraft-server#466 giving something to test :

Adding this to the proxmox lxc configuration file:

lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 195:* rwm
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow: c 235:* rwm

And it start now !

[ynleborg]

@slobberbone thank you for the hint. It turned out that it was also something to do with virtualization, which led to ParallelGCThreads=0. I fixed it by setting KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS: "-XX:ParallelGCThreads=1" in docker-compose.yml

[anabeto93]

I noticed it sometimes occurs when I have corrupted data. I simply down all the containers docker-compose down and then prune the volumes docker volume prune and then docker-compose up --build and that fixes it.