minikube: hyperkit: /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory -> could not find an IP address

I have reinstalled minikube using brew and it works if the driver is virtual box. I have docker desktop working and I can select between docker desktop kubernetes and minikube if minikube is running on virtualbox.

I added a dhcpd_leases file in the /var/db directory and the error changed to: error: could not find an IP address for de:57:7:ad:86:12

The exact command to reproduce the issue: minikube start --memory 2000MB --disksize 20000MB

The full output of the command that failed:

minikube v1.6.1 on Darwin 10.14.6 ✨ Automatically selected the ‘hyperkit’ driver (alternates: [virtualbox]) 🔥 Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) … 🔄 Retriable failure: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory 🔥 Deleting “minikube” in hyperkit … 🔥 Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) … 🔄 Retriable failure: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory 🔥 Deleting “minikube” in hyperkit … 🔥 Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) … 🔄 Retriable failure: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory 🔥 Deleting “minikube” in hyperkit …

💣 Unable to start VM: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory

The output of the minikube logs command:

💣 api load: filestore “minikube”: Docker machine “minikube” does not exist. Use “docker-machine ls” to list machines. Use “docker-machine create” to add a new one.

😿 Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we would love to hear from you: 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose

The operating system version: macOS Mojave 10.14.6

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I no longer have a mac and retired. I forgot about this issue. Sorry, I am closing it now.

echeadle on Mar 7, 2021

I’m also seeing this issue when I try to use minikube + hyperkit in a github action on github’s macos-latest action runner image. Minikube 1.12.0:

minikube start --apiserver-port=6443 --addons=metrics-server --addons=ingress --addons=dashboard --addons=logviewer
* [minikube-dev-runner-Mac-1595621774903] minikube v1.12.0 on Darwin 10.15.6
* Using the hyperkit driver based on user configuration
* Downloading driver docker-machine-driver-hyperkit:
* minikube 1.12.1 is available! Download it: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/tag/v1.12.1
* To disable this notice, run: 'minikube config set WantUpdateNotification false'

* The 'hyperkit' driver requires elevated permissions. The following commands will be executed:

    $ sudo chown root:wheel /Users/runner/.minikube/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit 
    $ sudo chmod u+s /Users/runner/.minikube/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit 


* Downloading VM boot image ...
[...]
* Starting control plane node minikube-dev-runner-Mac-1595621774903 in cluster minikube-dev-runner-Mac-1595621774903
* Downloading Kubernetes v1.18.3 preload ...
* Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=4, Memory=6000MB, Disk=40960MB) ...
* Deleting "minikube-dev-runner-Mac-1595621774903" in hyperkit ...
* Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=4, Memory=6000MB, Disk=40960MB) ...
* Failed to start hyperkit VM. "minikube start -p minikube-dev-runner-Mac-1595621774903" may fix it: creating host: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory
* 
X error provisioning host: Failed to start host: creating host: create: Error creating machine: Error in driver during machine creation: IP address never found in dhcp leases file Temporary error: open /var/db/dhcpd_leases: no such file or directory
* 
* 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

Interestingly sometimes re-running the job works.

adamf on Jul 24, 2020

I don’t think I am going to be very helpful in solving this issue. I did attach a file with the output of fs_usage just in case it might help. fs_usage-output.txt

I work for a healthcare company and I suspect our security folk have done something with the proxy that is causing this error. I believe minikube was working a few weeks ago, but I recently upgrade to mojave. I have not heard of any changes in our security polices, but I would not be surprised that with the update of the OS, they put in some changes to the way the mac proxy works. If this is true, I probably can’t back out the changes or make changes that could test any fixes. It does work with virtualbox and my docker desktop version of kubernetes is working.

I would be happy to try things, but I may not be able make changes to my machine that might solve this issue.

echeadle on Dec 21, 2019