minikube: docker: error getting ip during provisioning: IPs output should only be one line, got 2 lines

Steps to reproduce the issue:

After install minikube following this link https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/
Then execute minikube start --driver=docker, then error above shown.

😄  minikube v1.11.0 on Ubuntu 20.04
✨  Using the docker driver based on existing profile
👍  Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🏃  Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...
🤦  StartHost failed, but will try again: provision: Temporary Error: error getting ip during provisioning: IPs output should only be one line, got 2 lines
🏃  Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...
😿  Failed to start docker container. "minikube start" may fix it: provision: Temporary Error: error getting ip during provisioning: IPs output should only be one line, got 2 lines

💣  error provisioning host: Failed to start host: provision: Temporary Error: error getting ip during provisioning: IPs output should only be one line, got 2 lines

😿  minikube is exiting due to an error. If the above message is not useful, open an issue:
👉  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 19 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I also had this error. I believe it is because on the system I am using, docker commands have to be run with sudo. This meant the config file was owned by root. I did not need to delete the config file to get minikube to start, just make it readable: chmod 777 ~/.docker chmod 66 ~/.docker/config.json

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pwrightkcl on Aug 27, 2021

I also had this problem , but on MacOs system.First I thought there was a problem about proxy, but after using minikube delete many times, I saw a message ‘WARNING: Error loading config file: ~/.docker/config.json: EOF’ . then I deleted this file by rm ~/.docker/config.json and then minikube delete and then start minikube again and it’s going OK.

jadiy on Jun 27, 2020

I had the same problem and first I tried to remove the .docker/config.json file, the same issue persists. So:

After deleted the config.json file I tried these steps:

$ sudo chown “$USER”:“$USER” /home/“$USER”/.docker -R $ sudo chmod g+rwx “$HOME/.docker” -R

Change user for your whoami, try whoami in your terminal and paste the result on $USER and be happy!

matheusnicolas on Jul 29, 2021

I also had this problem , but on MacOs system.First I thought there was a problem about proxy, but after using minikube delete many times, I saw a message ‘WARNING: Error loading config file: ~/.docker/config.json: EOF’ . then I deleted this file by rm ~/.docker/config.json and then minikube delete and then start minikube again and it’s going OK.

Yes that worked.

vyom-soft on Aug 21, 2020

Am currently facing this issue too.

AminuIsrael on Aug 5, 2020

Hey @phua-gingsheng could you provide the output of:

cat ~/.docker/config.json

priyawadhwa on Jul 29, 2020