Kitematic: Setup Error: Machine does not exist

[gunjan5]

Downloaded Kitematic for the first time, and as I open it (after asking for my mac's password) it gives me this error:

I tried clicking on "Retry Setup" and "Delete VM and Retry Setup" but no luck.

I already have Virtualbox installed and had boot2docker VM on it before installing Kitematic, so after getting this error, I also deleted the boot2docker VM from VirtualBox and retried, but no luck.

I'm on a macbook pro OS X 10.9.5, NO VPN

[fuwaneko]

Same here, OS X 10.10.3.

[kesarion]

Same issue, OS X 10.10.3, Kitematic 0.5.24.

Works with 0.5.23.

[DannyvanderJagt]

I had the same error, on OS X 10.10.3, but somehow I fixed (for now).

I googled and found this page: https://kitematic.com/docs/known-issues/. It said that I should try docker-machine rm -f dev (in terminal) but I got these two errors: (Kitematic app was shutdown at this point!)
ERRO[0000] Error removing machine dev: Host does not exist
FATA[0000] There was an error removing a machine. To force remove it, pass the -f option. Warning: this might leave it running on the provider.

After that I tried to second command from the page: docker-machine create -d virtualbox dev
The command tried to start the VM but it got stuck at Waiting for VM to start.... (even after 10 minutes)
After that I closed the terminal and opened the Kitematic app. Nothing had changed, still the same error. I did run to second command again and this time it worked and I got these two info statements:

NFO[0055] "dev" has been created and is now the active machine.
INFO[0055] To point your Docker client at it, run this in your shell: eval "$(docker-machine env dev)"

When I did open the Kitematic app I got the same error but I clicked the 'retry setup' button but that didn't fix it. Finally I clicked the 'Delete VM and Retry Setup' button and the app started the reinstall everything. Everthing is working now and the Kitematic app is working.

I hope this helps in fixing the bug, if there are any questions let me know.

[fuwaneko]

@DannyvanderJagt It did help. But in my case, second command succesfully launched VM in VBox and Kitematic started normally after that.

[gimbo]

Same here, OSX 10.9.5, Kitematic 0.5.24

[jmorganca]

This bug was introduced in 0.5.24 but fixed in 0.5.25, sorry about that.