Hi @hiraneranda and welcome ![]()
Which version of Confluent Platform?
Hey @dtroiano. It’s v7.8.0
Hm, I can’t repro this - KsqlDB starts up for me when I run confluent local services start.
What OS and Java version do you have?
Have you changed any configs in your Confluent Platform install? Maybe try with a fresh download:
curl -O https://packages.confluent.io/archive/7.8/confluent-7.8.0.zip
unzip confluent-7.8.0.zip
confluent-7.8.0/bin/confluent local services start
Try downgrading Java to 11 or 17. 21 isn’t supported - I’m not sure if this would be the root cause, but it’s easy enough to try.

