Encountered error on one cluster complaining Kafka broker is 0, although 1 is up and running

ERROR admin.TopicCommand$: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InvalidReplicationFactorException: Replication factor: 1 larger than available brokers: 0.

[donghua@cdh5 bin]$ ./kafka-topics --create --zookeeper cdh5:2181 --topic weblogs --replication-factor 1 --partitions 2

19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:user.dir=/opt/cloudera/parcels/KAFKA-3.1.1-1.3.1.1.p0.2/bin
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Initiating client connection, connectString=cdh5:2181 sessionTimeout=30000 watcher=org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient@498d318c
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zkclient.ZkClient: Waiting for keeper state SyncConnected
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening socket connection to server cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181. Will not attempt to authenticate using SASL (unknown error)
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket connection established, initiating session, client: /192.168.31.25:43992, server: cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session establishment complete on server cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181, sessionid = 0x169ae9e3aff0021, negotiated timeout = 30000
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zkclient.ZkClient: zookeeper state changed (SyncConnected)
Error while executing topic command : Replication factor: 1 larger than available brokers: 0.
19/03/24 15:39:42 ERROR admin.TopicCommand$: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.InvalidReplicationFactorException: Replication factor: 1 larger than available brokers: 0.
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zkclient.ZkEventThread: Terminate ZkClient event thread.
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session: 0x169ae9e3aff0021 closed
19/03/24 15:39:42 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread shut down

Troubleshooting:

Check broker zookeeper path, which is /brokers/

[root@cdh5 log]# tail -f /var/log/kafka/kafka-broker-cdh5.dbaglobe.com.log 
2019-03-24 15:35:46,490 INFO kafka.utils.ZKCheckedEphemeral: Creating /brokers/ids/44 (is it secure? false)
2019-03-24 15:35:46,498 INFO kafka.utils.ZKCheckedEphemeral: Result of znode creation is: OK
2019-03-24 15:35:46,499 INFO kafka.utils.ZkUtils: Registered broker 44 at path /brokers/ids/44 with addresses: EndPoint(cdh5.dbaglobe.com,9092,ListenerName(PLAINTEXT),PLAINTEXT)

Check zookeeper.chroot configuration, which is /kafka". Change it “/” to fix the problem

[donghua@cdh5 bin]$ ./kafka-topics --create --zookeeper cdh5:2181 --topic weblogs --replication-factor 1 --partitions 2
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zkclient.ZkEventThread: Starting ZkClient event thread.
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:zookeeper.version=3.4.5-cdh5.14.2--1, built on 03/27/2018 20:39 GMT
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:host.name=cdh5.dbaglobe.com

19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:os.version=3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:user.name=donghua
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:user.home=/home/donghua
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Client environment:user.dir=/opt/cloudera/parcels/KAFKA-3.1.1-1.3.1.1.p0.2/bin
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Initiating client connection, connectString=cdh5:2181 sessionTimeout=30000 watcher=org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient@498d318c
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zkclient.ZkClient: Waiting for keeper state SyncConnected
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Opening socket connection to server cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181. Will not attempt to authenticate using SASL (unknown error)
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Socket connection established, initiating session, client: /192.168.31.25:45328, server: cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: Session establishment complete on server cdh5.dbaglobe.com/192.168.31.25:2181, sessionid = 0x169ae9e3aff003a, negotiated timeout = 30000
19/03/24 15:49:53 INFO zkclient.ZkClient: zookeeper state changed (SyncConnected)
19/03/24 15:49:54 INFO admin.AdminUtils$: Topic creation {"version":1,"partitions":{"1":[44],"0":[44]}}
Created topic "weblogs".
19/03/24 15:49:54 INFO zkclient.ZkEventThread: Terminate ZkClient event thread.
19/03/24 15:49:54 INFO zookeeper.ZooKeeper: Session: 0x169ae9e3aff003a closed
19/03/24 15:49:54 INFO zookeeper.ClientCnxn: EventThread shut down