minikube: failed to start on mac with error E1006

Question

I'm trying to setup k8s locally on my own mac, and after installing all the dependencies, I try to run minikube start , but get the following error message:

😄  minikube v1.4.0 on Darwin 10.14.6
💡  Tip: Use 'minikube start -p <name>' to create a new cluster, or 'minikube delete' to delete this one.
🏃  Using the running virtualbox "minikube" VM ...
⌛  Waiting for the host to be provisioned ...
🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.16.0 on Docker 18.09.9 ...
E1006 09:57:30.975647   22071 cache_images.go:79] CacheImage k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver:v1.16.0 -> /Users/chrisbao/.minikube/cache/images/k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver_v1.16.0 failed: fetching image: Get https://k8s.gcr.io/v2/: dial tcp [2404:6800:4008:c04::52]:443: i/o timeout
E1006 09:57:30.976341   22071 cache_images.go:79] CacheImage gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v1.8.1 -> /Users/chrisbao/.minikube/cache/images/gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner_v1.8.1 failed: fetching image: Get https://gcr.io/v2/: dial tcp [2404:6800:4008:c00::52]:443: i/o timeout

and minikube status command returns the following status info:

host: Running
kubelet:
apiserver: Stopped
kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at 192.168.99.100

so how to debug and fix it? what's the potential reason?

Answer 1

You're getting a connection timeout when trying to pull images.

"Get https://k8s.gcr.io/v2/ : dial tcp [2404:6800:4008:c04::52]:443: i/o timeout"

Can you confirm that you're able to access the internet from within your minikube VM?

minikube ssh ping google.com

you should see something like

Answer 2

E1006 09:57:30.975647 22071 cache_images.go:79] CacheImage k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver:v1.16.0 -> /Users/chrisbao/.minikube/cache/images/k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver_v1.16.0 failed: fetching image: Get https://k8s.gcr.io/v2/ : dial tcp [2404:6800:4008:c04::52]:443: i/o timeout

Looks like you aren't able to pull the k8s api server image from GCR. You can try use one of the available image mirrors by using the --image-repository or --image-mirror-country flags. Eg, if you are based in China, you can start minikube with:

minikube start --image-mirror-country=cn