Kafka is failing to start. Getting the below error

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ERROR Error while creating ephemeral at /brokers/ids/0, node already exists and owner '72067757872119809' does not match current session '72067836689711106' (kafka.zk.KafkaZkClient$CheckedEphemeral) 2021-05-05 02:19:44.796 [INF] [Kafka] [2021-05-05 02:19:44,786] ERROR [KafkaServer id=0] Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)

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The error is saying a broker already is running with id=0, or that Zookeeper is corrupt because a broker did not previously cleanly shut down...

In the later case, you can attempt to use zookeeper-shell to rmr /brokers/ids/0, however, this might have more unintended consequences than preforming a restart of Zookeeper as well as the brokers

The only solution which works here is restart the broker and then restart the server.

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