minikube: Can't start minikube after initial install (could not unmarshal the JSON output of 'docker info')

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Minikube version: 1.18.1 (need to use this version as AWX has a bug related to 1.19) Docker version: 19.03.15, build 99e3ed8919

1. Followed directions to install minikube and docker.
2. Executed the minikube start --driver=docker
3. Received the following results and minikube won’t start

Full output of failed command: [ansible@control-plane ~]$ minikube start

• minikube v1.18.1 on Centos 8.3.2011
• Using the none driver based on existing profile
• Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
• Restarting existing none bare metal machine for “minikube” …
• OS release is CentOS Linux 8
• Preparing Kubernetes v1.20.2 on Docker … ! initialization failed, will try again: wait: /bin/bash -c “sudo env PATH=/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.20.2:$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”: exit status 1 stdout: [init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.20.2 [preflight] Running pre-flight checks [preflight] The system verification failed. Printing the output from the verification: KERNEL_VERSION: 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64 CONFIG_NAMESPACES: enabled CONFIG_NET_NS: enabled CONFIG_PID_NS: enabled CONFIG_IPC_NS: enabled CONFIG_UTS_NS: enabled CONFIG_CGROUPS: enabled CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT: enabled CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE: enabled CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER: enabled CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED: enabled CONFIG_CPUSETS: enabled CONFIG_MEMCG: enabled CONFIG_INET: enabled CONFIG_EXT4_FS: enabled (as module) CONFIG_PROC_FS: enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_REDIRECT: enabled (as module) CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT: enabled (as module) CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS: enabled (as module) CONFIG_AUFS_FS: not set - Required for aufs. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM: enabled (as module) OS: Linux CGROUPS_CPU: enabled CGROUPS_CPUACCT: enabled CGROUPS_CPUSET: enabled CGROUPS_DEVICES: enabled CGROUPS_FREEZER: enabled CGROUPS_MEMORY: enabled CGROUPS_PIDS: enabled CGROUPS_HUGETLB: enabled

stderr: [WARNING IsDockerSystemdCheck]: detected “” as the Docker cgroup driver. The recommended driver is “systemd”. Please follow the guide at https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/cri/ [WARNING FileExisting-socat]: socat not found in system path error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred: [ERROR SystemVerification]: could not unmarshal the JSON output of ‘docker info’:

: unexpected end of JSON input [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

I have verified that docker is running:

[ansible@control-plane ~]$ sudo docker version Client: Docker Engine - Community Version: 19.03.15 API version: 1.40 Go version: go1.13.15 Git commit: 99e3ed8919 Built: Sat Jan 30 03:16:44 2021 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Experimental: false

Server: Docker Engine - Community Engine: Version: 19.03.15 API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12) Go version: go1.13.15 Git commit: 99e3ed8919 Built: Sat Jan 30 03:15:19 2021 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Experimental: false containerd: Version: 1.4.4 GitCommit: 05f951a3781f4f2c1911b05e61c160e9c30eaa8e runc: Version: 1.0.0-rc93 GitCommit: 12644e614e25b05da6fd08a38ffa0cfe1903fdec docker-init: Version: 0.18.0 GitCommit: fec3683 [ansible@control-plane ~]$ sudo docker info Client: Debug Mode: false

Server: Containers: 8 Running: 0 Paused: 0 Stopped: 8 Images: 8 Server Version: 19.03.15 Storage Driver: overlay2 Backing Filesystem: xfs Supports d_type: true Native Overlay Diff: true Logging Driver: json-file Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Plugins: Volume: local Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog Swarm: inactive Runtimes: runc Default Runtime: runc Init Binary: docker-init containerd version: 05f951a3781f4f2c1911b05e61c160e9c30eaa8e runc version: 12644e614e25b05da6fd08a38ffa0cfe1903fdec init version: fec3683 Security Options: seccomp Profile: default Kernel Version: 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64 Operating System: CentOS Linux 8 OSType: linux Architecture: x86_64 CPUs: 2 Total Memory: 15.46GiB Name: control-plane.minikube.internal ID: EW3X:QRSM:A5XC:2HFJ:CNQP:2H3K:2TE4:7CJL:XUZJ:E37A:3LMN:35TR Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker Debug Mode: false Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/ Labels: Experimental: false Insecure Registries: 127.0.0.0/8 Live Restore Enabled: false

[ansible@control-plane ~]$ minikube version minikube version: v1.18.1 commit: 09ee84d530de4a92f00f1c5dbc34cead092b95bc