Issue with k8s.io/docs/tutorials/hello-minikube/

[anik-chakravorty]

This is a Bug Report

Was trying to run the tutorial : https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/hello-minikube/
The tutorial is a part of the coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/deploy-micro-kube-ibm-cloud/home/welcome
While trying to run the aforementioned tutorial faced the following error while trying to execute "minikube dashboard":

$ minikube dashboard

• Enabling dashboard ...
• Verifying dashboard health ...
• Launching proxy ...
• Verifying proxy health ...
• Opening http://127.0.0.1:45602/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/ in your default browser...
  X failed to open browser: exec: "xdg-open": executable file not found in $PATH

Please suggest a way forward. I am trying this on MacBook Pro with High Sierra and chrome is set as the default browser.

Proposed Solution:

Page to Update:
https://kubernetes.io/...

complete log:
$
$ minikube version; minikube start
minikube version: v0.34.1
o minikube v0.34.1 on linux (amd64)

Configuring local host environment ...
Creating none VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...

• "minikube" IP address is 172.17.0.80
• Configuring Docker as the container runtime ...
• Preparing Kubernetes environment ...
  @ Downloading kubeadm v1.13.3
  @ Downloading kubelet v1.13.3
• Pulling images required by Kubernetes v1.13.3 ...
• Launching Kubernetes v1.13.3 using kubeadm ...
• Configuring cluster permissions ...
• Verifying component health .....

• kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"
  = Done! Thank you for using minikube!
  $ minikube dashboard

• Enabling dashboard ...
• Verifying dashboard health ...
• Launching proxy ...
• Verifying proxy health ...
• Opening http://127.0.0.1:45602/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/ in your default browser...
  X failed to open browser: exec: "xdg-open": executable file not found in $PATH

[prankul88]

Thanks for reporting this bug.
But seems like it has been addressed in patch #14240

[sftim]

PR #14240 recommends running apt install xdg-utils; that seems specific to readers running Debian and its derivatives. The macOS equivalent of xdg-open is named open BTW.

kubernetes/minikube#3558 (comment) has a suggestion about getting the URL out of minikube instead of having it open a browser. Maybe that would work?

[sftim]

It seems that overall this is more a bug about using Minikube on macOS and less a bug in the Kubernetes documentation. @anik-chakravorty what do you think?

[tengqm]

dup of #12968