[lug] minikube (k8) question on Ubuntu 18.04

[Zan Lynx]

On August 27, 2018 8:04:25 AM MDT, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>I've installed minikube (single-node Kubernetes cluster designed for
>dev
>and testing) and getting this error:
>
>Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
>E0827 07:51:38.946059    1363 start.go:83] Error starting host: Error
>creating new host: dial tcp: missing address. Retrying.
>E0827 07:51:38.957531    1363 start.go:83] Error starting host: Error
>creating new host: dial tcp: missing address. Retrying.
>E0827 07:51:38.969739    1363 start.go:83] Error starting host: Error
>creating new host: dial tcp: missing address. Retrying.
>E0827 07:51:38.969764    1363 start.go:89] Error starting host:  Error
>creating new host: dial tcp: missing address
>Error creating new host: dial tcp: missing address
>Error creating new host: dial tcp: missing address
>
>
>It's reported fairly frequently and I've applied all of the previously
>identified fixes but so far no luck.
>
>Does anyone have an idea? I know that there was a 'dial' used back in
>the
>era of dial-up modems but I doubt that's what this refers to. The
>system
>has both docker and libvirt (kvm) installed.
>
>I've investigated doing a full installation of K8 but that's...
>nontrivial.
>I came across a reference to a docker image (that itself uses
>docker-within-docker) so it's an option but most of the introductory
>material assumes minikube.

The Go libraries call their function for connecting to sockets Dial. It's trying to make a TCP connection. The error means that it was called without any address to connect to. You might have missed doing a configuration step somewhere.