minikube: tarball.Write panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

The exact command to reproduce the issue: minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox (Administrator)

The full output of the command that failed:

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.18362 Build 18362 上的 minikube v1.6.2
Selecting ‘virtualbox’ driver from user configuration (alternates: [hyperv])
正在创建 virtualbox 虚拟机（CPUs=2，Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB）… panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x28 pc=0x12ee976]

goroutine 103 [running]: github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/tarball.Write(0x0, 0xc0003b4030, 0xa, 0xc0003b403b, 0xe, 0xc0003b404a, 0x7, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc00062bc58, …) /go/pkg/mod/github.com/google/go-containerregistry@v0.0.0-20180731221751-697ee0b3d46e/pkg/v1/tarball/write.go:57 +0x136 k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImage(0xc0003b4030, 0x21, 0xc0004b41e0, 0x46, 0x0, 0x0) /app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:395 +0x615 k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImages.func1(0xc0004aff68, 0x0) /app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:85 +0xed golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go.func1(0xc00033db90, 0xc00033dbf0) /go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:57 +0x6b created by golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go /go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:54 +0x6d panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x28 pc=0x12ee976]

goroutine 106 [running]: github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1/tarball.Write(0x0, 0xc00055e300, 0xa, 0xc00055e30b, 0x7, 0xc00055e313, 0x5, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc000699c58, …) /go/pkg/mod/github.com/google/go-containerregistry@v0.0.0-20180731221751-697ee0b3d46e/pkg/v1/tarball/write.go:57 +0x136 k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImage(0xc00055e300, 0x18, 0xc000598180, 0x3d, 0x0, 0x0) /app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:395 +0x615 k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/machine.CacheImages.func1(0xc0004adf68, 0x0) /app/pkg/minikube/machine/cache_images.go:85 +0xed golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go.func1(0xc00033db90, 0xc00033dc80) /go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:57 +0x6b created by golang.org/x/sync/errgroup.(*Group).Go /go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/sync@v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/errgroup/errgroup.go:54 +0x6d

The output of the minikube logs command:

X command runner: getting ssh client for bootstrapper: Error dialing tcp via ssh client: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:22: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

The operating system version: Windows 10 Pro 1903 VirtualBox 6.1.0 platform packages with VirtualBox 6.1.0 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack Hyper-V Requirements: 虚拟机监视器模式扩展: 是固件中已启用虚拟化: 是二级地址转换: 是数据执行保护可用: 是

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OMG…Are all Chinese users above? I found that using --image-repository="registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers" works well. thanks to Alibaba Cloud. hhhhhhh…

However, img variable in Go source code should be checked not equal nil

(This comment is for Chinese users only)

Veitor on Jan 21, 2020

Note: this is fixed in minikube 1.7.0!

tstromberg on Feb 5, 2020

OMG…Are all Chinese users above? I found that using --image-repository="registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers" works well. thanks to Alibaba Cloud. hhhhhhh… However, img variable in Go source code should be checked not equal nil (This comment is for Chinese users only)

Thank you @Veitor , this works for me as well on macOS 10.15.1 with minikube 1.6.2
> minikube delete
🔥  Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
💔  The "minikube" cluster has been deleted.
🔥  Successfully deleted profile "minikube"
> minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox --image-repository="registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers"
😄  minikube v1.6.2 on Darwin 10.15.1
✨  Selecting 'virtualbox' driver from user configuration (alternates: [hyperkit])
✅  Using image repository registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers
🔥  Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.17.0 on Docker '19.03.5' ...
💾  Downloading kubeadm v1.17.0
💾  Downloading kubelet v1.17.0
🚜  Pulling images ...
🚀  Launching Kubernetes ...
⌛  Waiting for cluster to come online ...
🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"

this works to me

PuzoLiang on Feb 6, 2020

OMG…Are all Chinese users above? I found that using --image-repository="registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers" works well. thanks to Alibaba Cloud. hhhhhhh…

However, img variable in Go source code should be checked not equal nil

(This comment is for Chinese users only)

Thank you @Veitor , this works for me as well on macOS 10.15.1 with minikube 1.6.2

> minikube delete
🔥  Deleting "minikube" in virtualbox ...
💔  The "minikube" cluster has been deleted.
🔥  Successfully deleted profile "minikube"
> minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox --image-repository="registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers"
😄  minikube v1.6.2 on Darwin 10.15.1
✨  Selecting 'virtualbox' driver from user configuration (alternates: [hyperkit])
✅  Using image repository registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers
🔥  Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.17.0 on Docker '19.03.5' ...
💾  Downloading kubeadm v1.17.0
💾  Downloading kubelet v1.17.0
🚜  Pulling images ...
🚀  Launching Kubernetes ...
⌛  Waiting for cluster to come online ...
🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"

baurine on Feb 2, 2020