diff --git a/bookkeeper-common/pom.xml b/bookkeeper-common/pom.xml
index 0a3ef64b938..aa733d20ff9 100644
--- a/bookkeeper-common/pom.xml
+++ b/bookkeeper-common/pom.xml
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@
   <artifactId>bookkeeper-common</artifactId>
   <name>Apache BookKeeper :: Common</name>
   <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper.stats</groupId>
       <artifactId>bookkeeper-stats-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/bookkeeper-common/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/common/component/ComponentStarter.java b/bookkeeper-common/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/common/component/ComponentStarter.java
index b99a805933e..d1cb08163c5 100644
--- a/bookkeeper-common/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/common/component/ComponentStarter.java
+++ b/bookkeeper-common/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/common/component/ComponentStarter.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.common.concurrent.FutureUtils;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 
 /**
  * Utils to start components.
@@ -51,8 +50,6 @@ public void run() {
                 log.error("Failed to close component {} in shutdown hook gracefully, Exiting anyway",
                     component.getName(), e);
                 future.completeExceptionally(e);
-            } finally {
-                LogManager.shutdown();
             }
         }
 
@@ -77,8 +74,9 @@ public static CompletableFuture<Void> startComponent(LifecycleComponent componen
         component.setExceptionHandler((t, e) -> {
             log.error("Triggered exceptionHandler of Component: {} because of Exception in Thread: {}",
                     component.getName(), t, e);
+            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
             // start the shutdown hook when an uncaught exception happen in the lifecycle component.
-            FutureUtils.complete(future, null);
+            shutdownHookThread.start();
         });
 
         component.publishInfo(new ComponentInfoPublisher());
diff --git a/bookkeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/replication/AutoRecoveryMain.java b/bookkeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/replication/AutoRecoveryMain.java
index cdc0f830f99..926aef43241 100644
--- a/bookkeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/replication/AutoRecoveryMain.java
+++ b/bookkeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/replication/AutoRecoveryMain.java
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
 import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -340,7 +339,7 @@ static int doMain(String[] args) {
             server = buildAutoRecoveryServer(new BookieConfiguration(conf));
         } catch (Exception e) {
             LOG.error("Failed to build AutoRecovery Server", e);
-            LogManager.shutdown();
+            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
             return ExitCode.SERVER_EXCEPTION;
         }
 
@@ -351,8 +350,10 @@ static int doMain(String[] args) {
             Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
             // the server is interrupted
             LOG.info("AutoRecovery server is interrupted. Exiting ...");
+            System.err.println(ie.getMessage());
         } catch (ExecutionException ee) {
             LOG.error("Error in bookie shutdown", ee.getCause());
+            System.err.println(ee.getMessage());
             return ExitCode.SERVER_EXCEPTION;
         }
         return ExitCode.OK;