title: Kafka: unable to start Kafka - process can not access file 00000000000000000000.timeindex
body: <p>Kafka enthusiast, need little help here. I am unable to start kafka because the file <code>\00000000000000000000.timeindex</code> is being used by another process. Below are the logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[2017-08-09 22:49:22,811] FATAL [Kafka Server 0], Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
  java.nio.file.FileSystemException: \installation\kafka_2.11-0.11.0.0\log\test-0\00000000000000000000.timeindex: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
  
          at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:86)
          at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97)
          at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:102)
          at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.implDelete(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:269)
          at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)
          at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)
          at kafka.log.Log$$anonfun$loadSegmentFiles$3.apply(Log.scala:311)
          at kafka.log.Log$$anonfun$loadSegmentFiles$3.apply(Log.scala:272)
          at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:733)
          at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
          at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:186)
          at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.foreach(TraversableLike.scala:732)
          at kafka.log.Log.loadSegmentFiles(Log.scala:272)
          at kafka.log.Log.loadSegments(Log.scala:376)
          at kafka.log.Log.&lt;init&gt;(Log.scala:179)
          at kafka.log.Log$.apply(Log.scala:1580)
          at kafka.log.LogManager$$anonfun$loadLogs$2$$anonfun$5$$anonfun$apply$12$$anonfun$apply$1.apply$mcV$sp(LogManager.scala:172)
          at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$$anon$1.run(CoreUtils.scala:57)
          at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
          at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
          at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
          at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  [2017-08-09 22:49:22,826] INFO [Kafka Server 0], shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
  </code></pre>