minikube dashboard hang after vm restart

11/12/2019

I follow the guide to install a test minikube on my virtualbox of ubuntu-18.04. It's a virtualbox on my windows computer.so I use sudo minikube start --vm-driver=none to start minikube. then execute minikube dashboard ....I can access http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/ with the generated token. Everything is well by now.

BUT I need to poweroff my computer on weekends. So I stop minikube and shutdown the ubuntu vm.

sudo minikube stop
sudo shutdown

When I back to work on Monday, I can't access the dashboard UI WEB, sudo minikube dashboard hangs until I press Ctrl+C. minikube dashboard hangs until I press Ctrl+C

How can I restore the wei ui? or is there anything I need to do before shutdown the vm?

-- clara
kubernetes
kubernetes-dashboard
minikube

1 Answer

11/19/2019

minikube dashborad starts alongside kubectl proxy. The process waits for kubectl proxy to finish but apparently it never does, therefore the command never exits or ends. This is happening because of a security precautions. kubectl proxy runs underneath to enforce additional security restrictions in order to prevent DNS repining attacks.

What you can do is restart the minikube with a current config and data cleanup and than start a fresh new instance:

minikube stop
rm -rf  ~/.minikube
minikube start

Please let me know if that helped.

-- OhHiMark
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