Unable to start minikube on Apple M1

[vimalkansal]

What Happened?

Please see the output of the minikubs start command 👍
minikube start --driver=docker --force-systemd=true
😄 minikube v1.24.0 on Darwin 12.0.1 (arm64)
✨ Using the docker driver based on user configuration
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🚜 Pulling base image ...
🔥 Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=1988MB) ...
🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.22.3 on Docker 20.10.8 ...
💢 initialization failed, will try again: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

💣 Error starting cluster: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
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│ 😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │
│ 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │
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│ Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │
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❌ Exiting due to GUEST_START: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ 😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │
│ 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │
│ │
│ Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Attach the log file

Can't get the log

minikube logs --file=logs.txt
E0103 11:45:49.989917 32841 logs.go:190] command /bin/bash -c "sudo /var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3/kubectl describe nodes --kubeconfig=/var/lib/minikube/kubeconfig" failed with error: /bin/bash -c "sudo /var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3/kubectl describe nodes --kubeconfig=/var/lib/minikube/kubeconfig": Process exited with status 1
stdout:

stderr:
The connection to the server localhost:8443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
output: "\n** stderr ** \nThe connection to the server localhost:8443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?\n\n** /stderr **"

❗ unable to fetch logs for: describe nodes

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

No response

[spowelljr]

Hi @vimalkansal, thanks for reporting your issue with minikube!

This is a duplicate of #12274, the fix should be to run minikube delete --all --purge and then try starting minikube again.

The cause of the issue is you likely tried starting minikube using an amd64 binary previously and minikube dowloaded an amd64 version of kubectl, and it's trying to run that on your arm64 cluster and failing.

I'm going to close this, but if you have any follow up questions feel free to ask them in #12274, thanks!

[vimalkansal]

Thanks a lot @spowelljr taht worked !

[anas-zurkiyeh-sp]

For anyone that's still encountering this issue, there is an open issue to address this. Apparently it's a bug with the latest k8s version. For a workaround, use an older k8s version:

minikube start --kubernetes-version=v1.23.12

Reference: #15099