Minikube: Error kubeconfig status: Kubeconfig does not have a record of the machine cluster

[aakarshg]

minikube status

E0328 20:30:50.419672    4841 status.go:104] Error kubeconfig status: Kubeconfig does not have a record of the machine cluster
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubectl: Misconfigured: pointing to stale minikube-vm.
To fix the kubectl context, run minikube update-context

Fedora 29 was used with latest minikube 1.0.0

[balopat]

Hi, did you try running minikube update-context?

[tstromberg]

AFAIK, this error message should never happen. I'm really curious what's going on here.

[jeffvance]

ditto for me on fedora 29:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.19.7-300.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 5 22:21:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ mk version
minikube version: v1.0.1
$ mk update-context

💣  update config: Kubeconfig does not have a record of the machine cluster

$ mk status
E0430 16:12:22.678686   18626 status.go:110] Error kubeconfig status: Kubeconfig does not have a record of the machine cluster
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubectl: Misconfigured: pointing to stale minikube-vm.
To fix the kubectl context, run minikube update-context

[tstromberg]

@jeffvance - What happens if you type:

grep -- "- name" ~/.kube/config

I'm reaching here - but was the VM started using another user like via sudo by any chance?

[jeffvance]

@tstromberg :

$ grep -- "- name" ~/.kube/config
- name: kubernetes-admin
- name: minikube

But it seems to be working now. I stopped it, rm'd all in _~/.minikube_ and reran the minikube start --vm-driver=kvm2

[harryge00]

How did you start the minikube?
I have run

sudo minikube start

And when I run minikube status, it report the same error.
sudo minikube status solved the problem

[tstromberg]

Closing. The basic issue here is that kubectl and minikube only know about the clusters started by the user: if you use sudo, that's root.

To prevent confusion, minikube v1.4 will exit if you try to use something other than the none driver as root.