colima: Failed to start colima ssh connection refused

I can’t seem to start colima for the first time. Looks like ssh trying to connect on a ephemeral port being refused. But maybe this is a qemu problem. Any insight would be appreciated

lima version 0.8.2 colima version 0.3.2 QEMU emulator version 6.2.0 Mac M1

INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] creating and starting ...                     context=vm
> msg="Terminal is not available, proceeding without opening an editor"
> msg="Attempting to download the image from \"https://github.com/abiosoft/alpine-lima/releases/download/colima-v0.3.2/alpine-lima-clm-3.14.3-x86_64.iso\"" digest="sha512:875482176ff2f43bf9472f84137d8b9a56d692ae19243436079c7f2f78cb6b13576601eef9102aaea796629215fc60308e69b590c81fe4139e9e84f1ec4a57f5"
> msg="Using cache \"/Users/kbowerma/Library/Caches/lima/download/by-url-sha256/2001a61186d9a6a460637e4b69dec0b002ea5cffbaeac9ca590771f129e1ab79/data\""
> msg="[hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see \"/Users/kbowerma/.lima/colima/serial.log\")"
> msg="SSH Local Port: 49844"
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] QEMU has exited"
> msg="exiting, status={Running:false Degraded:false Exiting:true Errors:[] SSHLocalPort:0} (hint: see \"/Users/kbowerma/.lima/colima/ha.stderr.log\")"

stderror log …

{"level":"debug","msg":"executing script \"ssh\"","time":"2022-02-09T08:07:55-06:00"}
{"level":"debug","msg":"executing ssh for script \"ssh\": /usr/bin/ssh [ssh -F /dev/null -o IdentityFile=\"/Users/kbowerma/.lima/_config/user\" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o Compression=no -o BatchMode=yes -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o Ciphers=\"^aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com\" -o User=kbowerma -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPath=\"/Users/kbowerma/.lima/colima/ssh.sock\" -o ControlPersist=5m -p 49844 127.0.0.1 -- /bin/bash]","time":"2022-02-09T08:07:55-06:00"}
{"level":"debug","msg":"stdout=\"\", stderr=\"ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 49844: Connection refused\\r\\n\", err=failed to execute script \"ssh\": stdout=\"\", stderr=\"ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 49844: Connection refused\\r\\n\": exit status 255","time":"2022-02-09T08:07:55-06:00"}
{"level":"debug","msg":"qemu[stderr]: qemu-system-x86_64: Error: HV_ERROR","time":"2022-02-09T08:07:55-06:00"}
{"error":"signal: abort trap","level":"info","msg":"QEMU has exited","time":"2022-02-09T08:07:55-06:00"}

About this issue

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 27 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@kbowerma you’re on an m1 device, so that is expected. You probably have your arch set to x86 for your initial colima instance for whatever reason. Can you colima delete and colima start?

If it still fails, explicitly set the arch to aarch64 with colima start --arch aarch64.

+10

abiosoft on Feb 9, 2022

Same problem, different cause and solution.

It was nothing to do with the architecture mismatch for me, but rather brew sources. I ran brew upgrade, and had the same errors as above afterwards. I tried everything mentioned here, and in other tickets (there are dupes in the upstream lima project).

Solution for me in the end was:

brew uninstall --zap qemu colima lima
brew upgrade
brew update
brew upgrade
brew install colima

Basically just out of date formula after an upgrade, though this shouldn’t have been possible.

afrazkhan on Aug 19, 2023

@KManiKumarReddy you are most likely running x86_64 version of brew and utilising rosetta. You should ensure brew is running on native aarch64.

abiosoft on Jul 7, 2022