Unable to install minikube

[neeleshtiwari]

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and drag and drop the log file into this issue

Full output of failed command if not minikube start:

You are trying to run amd64 binary on M1 system. Please consider running darwin/arm64 binary instead (Download at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.24.0/minikube-darwin-arm64.)
😄 minikube v1.24.0 on Darwin 11.6
✨ Using the docker driver based on existing profile
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🚜 Pulling base image ...
🏃 Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...
🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.22.3 on Docker 20.10.8 ...
💢 initialization failed, will try again: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

💣 Error starting cluster: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ 😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │
│ 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │
│ │
│ Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_START: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

[carloscutover]

I am having the same issue.

[spowelljr]

You are trying to run amd64 binary on M1 system. Please consider running darwin/arm64 binary instead (Download at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.24.0/minikube-darwin-arm64.)

Have you tried downloading and using the arm64 binary yet? It's possible that doing that will solve your issue.

[neeleshtiwari]

Hello @spowelljr I have downloaded the arm64 binary and it is 70 mb document but how would I use it .. I am using MAC M1 so can you help me out how should I do this ?

[spowelljr]

You can view install instructions on our Getting Started page (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/).

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

[carloscutover]

You can view install instructions on our Getting Started page (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/).

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Hi Steven,

Thank you for the response. I have followed all these steps and was able to not get an error when running minikube start, however, when try to check the version of minikube --version, I get Error: unknown flag: --version
See 'minikube --help' for usage.

is this normal?

TIA!

[spowelljr]

Hi @carloscutover, I'm glad that solved your issue!

minikube doesn't support minikube --version it uses minikube version instead.

[sharifelgamal]

Yeah, make sure to use our arm64 binary if you are running on an Apple M1, we even display an error message our the top of our output:

You are trying to run amd64 binary on M1 system. Please consider running darwin/arm64 binary instead (Download at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.24.0/minikube-darwin-arm64.)

We should make our error message more clear.