producer not pushing the data into broker

hi,

I am testing kafka 0.8 on my local machine. i have only one zookeeper
and one kafka broker running.

when i run the console producer i get this error:

[2014-02-21 16:01:20,512] WARN Error while fetching metadata
[{TopicMetadata for topic test ->
No partition metadata for topic test due to
kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [test]: class
kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException
(kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo)
[2014-02-21 16:01:20,513] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic,
partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test
(kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler)
[2014-02-21 16:01:20,632] WARN Error while fetching metadata
[{TopicMetadata for topic test ->
No partition metadata for topic test due to
kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [test]: class
kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException
(kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo)
[2014-02-21 16:01:20,636] ERROR Failed to send requests for topics test
with correlation ids in [0,8] (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler)
ERROR Error in handling batch of 1 events
(kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread)
kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after
3 tries.
at
kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:90)
at
kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.tryToHandle(ProducerSendThread.scala:104)
at
kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(ProducerSendThread.scala:87)
at
kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread$$anonfun$processEvents$3.apply(ProducerSendThread.scala:67)
at scala.collection.immutable.Stream.foreach(Stream.scala:254)
at
kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.processEvents(ProducerSendThread.scala:66)
at
kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.run(ProducerSendThread.scala:44)

Can some one please let me know why this is happening.
I checked my vhost files and localhost, my hostname are correct.