Minikube: `./minikube logs -f` do not work

Created on 23 Jan 2018 · 11Comments · Source: kubernetes/minikube

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?: BUG REPORT

Please provide the following details:

Environment:

Minikube version: v0.24.1

OS: CentOS-7
VM Driver: none
Install tools:
curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube

What happened:

Run command ./minikube start --vm-driver=none
Command end successfully, and a local k8s cluster is running as expected: kubectl commands works.
Run command ./minikube logs, gets the logs of the running localkube instance as expected
Run command ./minikube logs -f, nothing shows up.

What you expected to happen:

The help message for minikube logs says:

-f, --follow Show only the most recent journal entries, and continuously print new entries as they are appended to the journal.

I hope this command can work as it says.

How to reproduce it:

Run command ./minikube logs -f
Run command ./minikube logs and check the latest message timestamps, confirms new logs do exist during the time we run ./minikube logs -f.

Anything else do we need to know:

cat /tmp/minikube.INFO

Log file created at: 2018/01/23 11:38:11
Running on machine: GLB-Shanghai-ChenLi-003
Binary: Built with gc go1.9.1 for linux/amd64
Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msg
I0123 11:38:11.666772    7165 notify.go:109] Checking for updates...
I0123 11:38:11.718853    7165 exec_runner.go:49] Run with output: if [[ `systemctl` =~ -\.mount ]] &>/dev/null; then
  sudo journalctl -f -u localkube
else
  tail -n +1 -f /var/lib/localkube/localkube.err /var/lib/localkube/localkube.out
fi

help wanted kinbug lifecyclfrozen prioritimportant-longterm 2019q2

Source

lichen2013

Most helpful comment

This is still broken in v0.34.0. Funny enough, you'll see the logs if you use minikube logs -f --alsologtostderr, however.

tstromberg on 16 Feb 2019

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The actual command running to get logs is sudo journalctl -f -u localkube, and if I directly run this command in terminal, it works well.

So, the issue is, why the output do not show in terminal ?

lichen2013 on 23 Jan 2018

The same issue can be produce when we have vm-driver virtualbox

lichen2013 on 1 Feb 2018

the same issue in macos10.12 minikube28.0
when using -f, nothing appears

fatfatson on 23 Jul 2018

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I'm also not seeing anything when following from minikube log cli

How I reproduced:

start a tmux session and split panes
in pane 1 run

minikube logs -f

in pane2 run

minikube ssh
sudo journalctl -u kubelet -f

then I disable the kube-dns addon to see what happened. The manual ssh + journal on pane2 updated, pane1 did not.

I'll add any logs you feel are pertinent, but not sure what to attach..

I'm using

minikube: v0.28.2.
HostOS: Linux
Vmdriver: Virtualbox

Are there pointers on debugging? Perhaps I'm doing something daft without realising it.

svelleweetakealot on 21 Aug 2018

I guess this is related to the commit https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/commit/79682c2059955f56397b28742cf7df550c88a2ef

lichen2013 on 22 Aug 2018

This is still broken in v0.34.0. Funny enough, you'll see the logs if you use minikube logs -f --alsologtostderr, however.

tstromberg on 16 Feb 2019

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I'm seeing this in v0.35.0. I'm using the workaround provided by @tstromberg to get around this issue.

jonnyelliot on 13 Mar 2019

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