crc: The connection to the server api.crc.testing:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port

General information

• OS: Linux
• Hypervisor: KVM
• Did you run crc setup before starting it (Yes/No)? Yes

CRC version

# Put the output of `crc version`
crc version
crc version: 1.9.0+a68b5e0
OpenShift version: 4.3.10 (embedded in binary)

CRC status

# Put the output of `crc status`
 crc status
ERRO The connection to the server api.crc.testing:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
 - exit status 1 

CRC config

# Put the output of `crc config view`

crc config view
- cpus                                  : 8
- memory                                : 16384
- pull-secret-file                      : /home/kumar/Downloads/pull-secret

Host Operating System

# Put the output of `cat /etc/os-release` in case of Linux
# put the output of `sw_vers` in case of Mac
# Put the output of `systeminfo` in case of Windows
cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="8 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 8 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-8"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

Steps to reproduce

1. crc setup

2. crc config set memory 16384

3. crc config set cpus 8

4. crc config set pull-secret-file /home/kumar/Downloads/pull-secret

5. crc config view

6. crc start

7. crc oc-env

8. export PATH=“/home/kumar/.crc/bin:$PATH”

9. eval $(crc oc-env)

10. oc login -u developer -p developer https://api.crc.testing:6443

Expected

connects to the console and authenticate the user

Actual

oc login -u developer -p developer https://api.crc.testing:6443 error: dial tcp 192.168.130.11:6443: connect: connection refused - verify you have provided the correct host and port and that the server is currently running.

Logs

aking call to close driver server (crc) Calling .Close Successfully made call to close driver server Making call to close connection to plugin binary time=“2020-05-04T23:15:10+05:30” level=debug msg=“Running ‘/home/kumar/.crc/bin/oc get co -ojson --kubeconfig /home/kumar/.crc/machines/crc/kubeconfig --context admin --cluster crc’” time=“2020-05-04T23:15:10+05:30” level=debug msg=“Command failed: exit status 1” time=“2020-05-04T23:15:10+05:30” level=debug msg="stdout: " time=“2020-05-04T23:15:10+05:30” level=debug msg=“stderr: The connection to the server api.crc.testing:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?\n” time=“2020-05-04T23:15:10+05:30” level=error msg=“The connection to the server api.crc.testing:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?\n - exit status 1”

You can start crc with crc start --log-level debug to collect logs. Please consider posting this on http://gist.github.com/ and post the link in the issue.