Error while running consumer

I am trying the to run the sample as it is, producer works fine but i am getting errors while running the consumer:
Here is the console dump:
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:02 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.Worker info
INFO: Current stream shard assignments: shardId-000000000001, shardId-000000000000
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:02 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.Worker info
INFO: Sleeping ...
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.LineReaderTask call
INFO: Stopping: Reading next message from STDIN for shardId-000000000000
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.LineReaderTask call
INFO: Stopping: Reading STDERR for shardId-000000000000
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangProtocol futureMethod
SEVERE: Failed to get status message for initialize action for shard shardId-000000000000
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Reached end of STDIN of child process for shard shardId-000000000000 so won't be able to return a message.
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangProtocol.futureMethod(MultiLangProtocol.java:197)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangProtocol.waitForStatusMessage(MultiLangProtocol.java:171)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangProtocol.waitForStatusMessage(MultiLangProtocol.java:138)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangProtocol.initialize(MultiLangProtocol.java:78)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangRecordProcessor.initialize(MultiLangRecordProcessor.java:94)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.InitializeTask.call(InitializeTask.java:90)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.call(MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.java:49)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.call(MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.java:24)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Reached end of STDIN of child process for shard shardId-000000000000 so won't be able to return a message.
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.GetNextMessageTask.returnAfterEndOfInput(GetNextMessageTask.java:84)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.GetNextMessageTask.returnAfterEndOfInput(GetNextMessageTask.java:31)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.LineReaderTask.call(LineReaderTask.java:70)
... 4 more

Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangRecordProcessor stopProcessing
SEVERE: Encountered an error while trying to initialize record processor
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize child process
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangRecordProcessor.initialize(MultiLangRecordProcessor.java:95)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.InitializeTask.call(InitializeTask.java:90)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.call(MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.java:49)
at com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.clientlibrary.lib.worker.MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.call(MetricsCollectingTaskDecorator.java:24)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.LineReaderTask call
INFO: Starting: Draining STDOUT for shardId-000000000000
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.LineReaderTask call
INFO: Stopping: Draining STDOUT for shardId-000000000000
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangRecordProcessor childProcessShutdownSequence
INFO: Child process exited with value: 1
Apr 24, 2018 2:55:15 PM com.amazonaws.services.kinesis.multilang.MultiLangDaemon run
INFO: Process terminanted, will initiate shutdown.

Start with the consumer sample and its MultiLangDaemon launch path, then trace the reported child-process STDIN and initialization failure. Reproduce the consumer run and confirm that the child process initializes without reaching end-of-input and exits with an error.

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