unable to start Appian services

Group service is not running , because of this the cluster is not starting. i am not sure what is causing issue, this is first distributed install of 17.3. 

com.appian.komodo.engine.connection.KProcessManager - groups K engine process not running on port 5013 yet. Retrying in 5000ms.

ERROR com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService - Exception appending epoch Optional[1512501032895] for content java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Failed to send all messages within 67s at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:336) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:334) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:334) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:334) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:334) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.send(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:334) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.markEpoch(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:269) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.initialize(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:143) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService.<init>(KafkaTransactionLogService.java:128) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLogService_Factory.get(KafkaTransactionLogService_Factory.java:114) ~[core-1.69.3.jar:1.69.3] at com.appian.komodo.log.KafkaTransactionLog at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_144] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_144] Suppressed: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.NotEnoughReplicasException: Messages are rejected since there are fewer in-sync replicas than required.