minikube: minikube start hangs on Staring local Kubernetes cluster...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

There doesn’t seem to be a way to get it to tell me why its hanging?

Tried on three separate boxes

$ minikube start --v=999 --logtostderr
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
I0626 12:10:22.128266    4422 cluster.go:59] Machine exists!
I0626 12:13:26.738461    4422 cluster.go:59] Machine exists!
I0626 12:16:31.367349    4422 cluster.go:59] Machine exists!
E0626 12:19:36.055509    4422 start.go:64] Error starting host:  Error starting stopped host: Too many retries waiting for SSH to be available.  Last error: Maximum number of retries (60) exceeded

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Created 8 years ago
Comments: 16 (7 by maintainers)

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I was having similar issue and can confirm that minikube delete and rm -rf ~/.minikube worked for me also, as suggested by @btipling

+10

slatunje on Jan 25, 2018

I had a similar error and I resolved the problem with the command minikube delete.

I had this problem after I created a “my-nginx” service as described in the k8s quickstart guide. Specifically the command:

kubectl expose deployment my-nginx --target-port=80 --type=LoadBalance

failed and resulted in failures with regard to minikube’s ip address not responding. I could no longer start or stop services with ssh not responding. I can not reproduce the original problem so I don’t know what the root cause was. I just thought mentioning minikube delete might help someone else who comes to this issue.

btipling on Nov 28, 2016

My issue was caused by a limitation in VirtualBox that does not allow running a virtual machine within a virtual machine. KVM supports this and I was able to get this to work by changing to the KVM driver.

davidje on Jul 26, 2016