[lug] minikube (k8) question on Ubuntu 18.04

[Bear Giles]

Not me but I've been getting burned by "but it works on my system!" a lot
recently. Minikube is available as an Ubuntu snap but I suspect it's not
yet ready for prime time.

I tried --vm-driver=virtualbox but it says that VBoxManage isn't on the
classpath. It lies.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:34 AM Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:

> 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.
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