Colima hangs on macOS, cannot stop

[erickrf]

Description

Colima hanged on my macOS installation. The VMs I try to start simply get stuck. If I run colima status, it just hangs there forever.

colima stop returns INFO[0000] stopping colima and then also hangs.

colima start just returns WARN[0000] already running, ignoring.

The only way out was to manually kill the process qemu-system_x86_64 and restart colima, but then it froze again after running a VM. Even after that, colima start would print

INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker

and then again get stuck.

Version

colima version 0.6.8
git commit: 9b0809d0ed9ad3ff1e57c405f27324e6298ca04f
limactl version 0.20.1
qemu-img version 8.2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

While it was in the stuck behavior, only the first two lines are displayed, then it hangs.

Operating System

• macOS Intel <= 13 (Ventura)
• macOS Intel >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Apple Silicon <= 13 (Ventura)
• Apple Silicon >= 14 (Sonoma)
• Linux

Output of colima status

(hangs)

Reproduction Steps

It happens when running some specific VM.

Expected behaviour

No response

Additional context

No response

[rommelfreddy]

can confirm. i have the same issue on Sonoma 14.2 / Colima 0.6.7

Using it with DDEV - projects working properly, and after some times the containers does not respond can colima is not stoppable.

After killing all colima/lima processes, and starting colima and the containers again, the containers does response but very slowly.

Also having performance issues with xdebug - but this may also be a problem on the DDEV or xdebug.

[ngamsomset]

same here. it stuck while trying to download something.

[dsmooot]

same issue as @ngamsomset..
M1 MBP Sonoma 14.2.1 Colima 0.6.8

Edit:
I ended up downgrading to 0.6.7 to get colima to a working state.. it introduced another issue, which I was able to resolve. Here are the steps I took:

colima delete
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/colima https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/releases/download/v0.6.7/colima-Darwin-arm64 && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/colima
 colima start --arch aarch64 --vm-type=vz --cpu 4 --memory 8

hit error:

exiting, status={Running:false Degraded:false Exiting:true Errors:[] SSHLocalPort:0} (hint: see "/Users/***/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.stderr.log")
FATA[0185] error starting vm: error at 'creating and starting': exit status 1

log:
{"error":"close tcp4 127.0.0.1:443-\u003e127.0.0.1:51217: shutdown: socket is not connected","level":"debug","msg":"failed to call CloseWrite","time":"2024-02-21T17:05:17-03:00"}
fixed with:
rm -rf ~/.colima/_lima/_networks/user-v2
ran colima start again... worked.

[thejan2009]

I can confirm the above, MBP M1 Pro, Sonoma 14.3.1, Colima 0.6.8. After starting the disk expansion, the whole system becomes slow. Activity monitor reports around 15MB/sec is written to the disk. That keeps happening even after I stop colima. Only a reboot stops this behavior.

[megalucio]

Can confirm as well MBP M1 Pro Ventura 13.6.3, hangs and no way to fix other than reboot/killing all colima associated processes

[rsau]

I am having same issue as well on M1 MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1

[AKorzeniowski]

Same here on M1 Pro running Sonoma 14.3.1. Will try downgrading to 0.6.7 as suggested.

[rsau]

I don't know if it is related but I did the fix in #710 (comment)
Colima has been stable for more than 4 hours now.

[rsau]

Looks like above fixed it for me

I have 34 containers running at the moment

cpu: 4
memory: 12
disk: 100
vmType: qemu
rosetta: false
mountType: sshfs

[rBrda]

@rsau You mean the comment that you linked? I just did the same because I don't really want to downgrade if it's not necessary.

[rsau]

@rsau You mean the comment that you linked? I just did the same because I don't really want to downgrade if it's not necessary.

Yeah.

• colima ssh
• sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

[rBrda]

@rsau You mean the comment that you linked? I just did the same because I don't really want to downgrade if it's not necessary.

Yeah.

• colima ssh
• sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

Just a feedback about this fix. It solved the issue for me. Colima has been running stable since I made this change.

[dberzano]

I have just tested 9b0809d (installed on macOS Sonoma via brew install --HEAD colima). It seems to be working - thanks @rsau!

[dsmooot]

update: was able to run latest version using qemu instead of vz to prevent freeze on starting process, but more recently reinstalled colima at --HEAD after colima delete default and seems to work again (using vz).

[ngamsomset]

Look like it's now working.

Steps to run.

• brew install --HEAD colima
• colima start -> stuck.
• colima delete default
• colima start -> working.

[david-sabata]

The above didn't fix it for me. Installed HEAD, started, and deleted defaults, but still stuck at expanding.

Apple Sillicon, M3 Pro
macOS 14.4.1
colima HEAD-281757a

$ colima start              
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0001] creating and starting ...                     context=vm
> 2.60 GiB / 3.50 GiB (74.22%) 67.92 MiB/s
> 2.66 GiB / 3.50 GiB (75.92%) 64.32 MiB/s
> 2.73 GiB / 3.50 GiB (77.87%) 61.07 MiB/s
> 2.79 GiB / 3.50 GiB (79.58%) 57.92 MiB/s
> 3.50 GiB / 3.50 GiB (100.00%) 63.63 MiB/s
> 3.50 GiB / 3.50 GiB (100.00%) 34.10 MiB/stime="2024-04-03T16:34:32+02:00" level=info msg="Expanding to 60GiB"

[SubhashC37]

below worked for me,
brew install --HEAD colima
colima delete default
colima start --vm-type vz --mount-type virtiofs

[mcyleung]

Tried all of the above solution, none of them worked. Work around downgrading to 0.6.7 worked
colima start --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta=true --mount-type=virtiofs

MacOS 14.4
M1 Pro

[luisdavim]

I have the same issue.