Earlier today I had increased my Docker desktop resources, but when ever since it restarted Kubernetes has not been able to complete its startup. Whenever I try to run a kubectl command, I get Unable to connect to the server: EOF in response.
I had thought that it started because I hadn't deleting a helm chart before adjusting the resource values in Settings, thus said resources having been assigned to the pods instead of the Kubernetes api server. But I have not been able to fix this issue.
This is what I have tried thus far:
Restarting Docker again
Reset Kubernetes
Reset Docker to factory settings
Deleting the VM in hyper-v and restarting Docker
Uninstalling and reinstalling Docker Desktop
Deleting the pki folder and restart Docker
Set the Environment Variable for KUBECONFIG
Deleting .kube/config and restart
Another clean reinstall of Docker Desktop
But Kubernetes does not complete its startup, so I still get Unable to connect to the server: EOF in response.
Is there anything I haven't tried yet?
I'll share that what solved this for me was Docker Desktop settings feature for "reset kubernetes cluster". I know that #shenyongo said that a "reset kubernetes" didn't work, and I suppose they mean this.
But for the sake of other readers who may find this, I had this same error message (with Docker Desktop on Windows 11, using wsl2), and the solution for me was indeed to do this:
open the Settings page (in Docker Desktop--right-click on it in the status tray)
then choose "Kubernetes" on the left
then choose "reset kubernetes cluster"
Yes, that warns that "all stacks and kubernetes resources will be deleted", but as nothing else had worked for me (and I wasn't worried about losing much), I tried it, and it did the trick. In moments, all my k8s functionality was back to working.
As background, k8s had been working fine for me for some time. It was just that one day I found I was getting this error. I searched and searched and found lots of folks asking about it but not getting answers, let alone this answer. To be clear, like the OP here I had tried restarting Docker Desktop, restarting the host machine, even downloading and installing an available DD update (I was only a bit behind), and none of those worked. I didn't proceed to ALL the steps shenyongo did, as I thought I'd try this first, and the reset worked.
Hope that may help others. I realize some may fear losing something, but this helps stress the power of declarative vs imperative k8s configuration. It SHOULD be easy to recreate most everything if necessary. I realize it may not be so for everyone.
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I have a multi-services environment that is hosted with docker swarm. There are multiple stacks that are created. All the docker containers which are running have an inbuild Spring Boot application. The issue is coming that all my stacks get restarted on their own. Now I know that in compose file I have mentioned that restart_policy as on failure. Hence it auto restarted. The issue comes that when services are restarted, I get errors from a particular service and this breaks everything.
I am not able to figure out what actually happens.
I did quite a lot of research and found out about these things.
Docker daemon is not restarted. I double-checked this with the uptime of the docker daemon.
I checked the docker service ps <Service_ID> and there I can see service showing shutdown and starting. No other information.
I checked the docker service logs <Service_ID> but no error in there too.
I checked for resource crunch. I can assure you that there was quite a good resource available at the host as well as each container level.
Can someone help where exactly to find logs for this even? Any other thoughts on this?
My host is actually a VM hosted on VMWare Vcenter.
After a lot of research and going through all docker logs, I could not find the solution. Later on, I discovered that there was a memory snapshot taken for backup every 24 hours.
Here is what I observe:
Whenever we take a snapshot, all docker services running on the host restart automatically. There will be no errors in that but they will just restart gracefully.
I found some questions already having this problem with VMware snapshots.
As far as I know, when we take a snapshot, it points to a different memory location and saves the previous one. I am not able to find why it's happening but yes Root cause of the problem was this. If anyone is a VMWare snapshots expert, please let us know.
Upon a fresh start of my ubuntu (on a virtualbox vm), I can build my images normally. Then very inconstantly, it can be the next time I try to build, or the 10th time, it will hang forever after running the command docker build .
Dockerfiles are in directories with 5~10 other files (which eliminates the issue with massive file amount slowing down docker while trying to locate the Dockerfile, as seen on other posts)
If I try to build for a new, very simple, Dockerfile (to eliminate any syntax error), it will also hang whenever it hangs with my project's Dockerfiles.
Beside, I am running minikube --driver=none and my images are used for deployments in kubernetes. (with none driver it's not required to run eval $(minikube docker-env) )
The only reliable fix is to stop the vm on which my ubuntu is running, start it again, and it will consistently allow me to build my images at least one time, then the issue comes back inconsistently.
This fix is quite inconvenient as I need to stop everything I am doing and it takes a bit of time.
I have tried to run docker system prune and to delete all the images already built.
What log could I check to find an issue going on when the build hangs ?
Any idea of the origin of the issue ?
Thanks a lot !
Ok this bug was viscous.
Sometimes when I need to check how my nginx server behave in one of the containers, I open the VM's graphical interface and pop firefox to have a look.
I only figured today that firefox prompt a pop-up after a while, asking for the admin password in order to access the keychain. And turns out docker do not build anything until this pop-up is open. Closing it or filling the password fixed my issue...
On another terminal window, please check the Docker Daemon Log using sudo journalctl -fu docker.service at the time of build command hanging. Also, you can check the list of running processes during the build execution.
I have installed Docker Desktop (version : 2.3.0.4) and enabled Kubernetes.
I deployed couple of PODS and everything was working fine, Since yesterday I am facing a weird issue mentioned below:
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:6443: connectex: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
As such, no changes were made on my system. I am using Linux Containers on Windows 10 machine.
Following steps I have tried:
Restarted the Docker Desktop
Tried the same with minikube and Docker Desktop both
Tried to disable the firewall but due to some permissions, I am not able to turn it off.
I have reset the kubernetes cluster as well.
I tried numerous different changes to fix docker desktop kubernetes failing to start. What finally worked for me is...
Clicked the troubleshooting icon (it's a bug icon) and then chose Clean/Purge Data.*
Finally,I found the solution for this.
VPN was causing the issue, I am using my office laptop and after restart, VPN was enabled and logged-in and due to this Kubernetes was not working.
After disabling the VPN, Kubernetes cluster working fine.
Hope that helps others as well.
For me, just "Clean and Purge" wasn't enough. Here is what I did.
Log off VPN
Go to bug and "Clean and Purge Data"
Also choose "Reset to Factory Defaults"
Restart Docker Desktop
Choose "Enable Kubernetes"
At this point, the "Starting" took a while for Kubernetes to be enabled. Now's it all good.
$ kubectl get namespace
NAME STATUS AGE
default Active 80s
kube-node-lease Active 82s
kube-public Active 82s
kube-system Active 82s
I tried clean/purge data and resetting factory settings but that didn't worked.
I had to reset kubernetes cluster from here.
In my case, the corporate proxy server caused the Kubernetes startup to fail. Addiing *.docker.internal to the no_proxy hosts solved the issue.
I had similar problem.
Install Minikube
I install minikube and I run as following on windows 10.
starting of kubectl
Then I gave permission for docker.
Check cluster-info
When I check cluster-info result as following
cluster info results
Try to get pods
When I try to get pods I did not get any error.
As #N-ate mentioned above, after clicking Clean/Purge Data which removes all downloaded images from my computer, now docker and kubernates are running properly.
As you can see in the image below, I only have kubernates images running on docker and it takes most of the allocated memory. I guess the failure of starting kubernates was related to this memory issue.
In my case, the Kubernetes (Docker Desktop on Mac) is not running properly though I can manage Pods, Services, etc., when I opened the Docker Desktop, it says
Kubernetes failed to start (red background)
I managed to fix the issue by resetting Docker Desktop and Prune/cleaning the storage.
Even I had similar problem after updating to Docker desktop(version 4.11.1). After I downgraded the version it works fine.
Troubleshooting steps
check is there any errors by running following command
kubectl get events|grep node
and make sure all pods are in running state.
kubectl get pods --namespace kube-system
I don't know for others but for some reasons, the above suggested options didn't work for me while fixing K8s on Docker Desktop on Windows. Tried fixing by cleaning the cluster, resetting to default, restarting pc, installing previous versions of Docker Desktop, enabling my pc HiperVisor, and giving it more resource priority, and others but yet still K8s failed to start, even though the Docker starts.
I chanced on Minikube as an alternative tool (without UI) to create my cluster and interacted with it using Kubectl.
And K8s worked for me locally.
I followed this guide - https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/
My docker-desktop is running behind the company proxy server.
I deleted following Proxy Env Variables from my windows OS.
HTTPS_PROXY:serveraddess
HTTP_PROXY:serveraddress
and I set up manual proxy in docker desktop.
My steps:
restart docker - it didn't help.
reset Kubernetes - it didn't help.
Adding missing 'wslconfig' file to C:\Users[MY USER] - it didn't help.
Restart the computer between any step - it didn't help.
stop using Wsl reuse Wsl - it didn't help.
uninstall docker and install again and enable Kubernetes - it didn't help.
Remove '.kube' folder from C:\Users[MY USER] and reset Kubernetes - It causes the Kubernetes to try stopping, and after failure - restart docker - which succeeded.
If I run Docker (Docker for Desktop, 2.0.0.3 on Windows 10), then access to internal infrastructure and containers is fine. I can easily do
docker pull internal.registry:5005/container:latest
But ones I enable Kubernetes there, I completely lose an access to internal infrastructure and [Errno 113] Host is unreachable in Kubernetes itself or connect: no route to host from Docker appears.
I have tried several ways, including switching of NAT from DockerNAT to Default Switch. That one doesn't work without restart and restart changes it back to DockerNAT, so, no luck here. This option also seems not to work.
let's start from the basics form the official documentation:
Please make sure you meet all the prerequisites and all other instructions were met.
Also you can use this guide. It has more info with details pointing to what might have gone wrong in your case.
If the above won't help, there are few other things to consider:
In case you are using a virtual machine, make sure that the IP you are referring to is the one of the docker-engines’ host and not the one on which the client is running.
Try to add tmpnginx in docker-compose.
Try to delete the pki directory in C:\programdata\DockerDesktop (first stop Docker, delete the dir and than start Docker). The directory will be recreated and k8s-app=kube-dns labels should work fine.
Please let me know if that helped.
I have the latest Docker for Mac installed, and I'm running into a problem where it appears that docker-compose up is stuck in a Downloading state for one of the containers:
± |master ✗| → docker-compose up --build
Pulling container (repo.io/company/container:prod)...
prod: Pulling from company/container
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Pulling fs layer
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Already exists
somehash: Downloading [=================================================> ] 234.6 MB/239.3 MB
somehash: Download complete
somehash: Download complete
^^ this is literally what it looks like on my command line. Stopping and starting hasn't helped, it immediately outputs this same output.
I've tried to rm the container but I guess it doesn't yet exist, it returns the output No stopped containers. --force-recreate also gets stuck in the same place. And perhaps I'm not googling for the right terminology but I haven't found anything useful to try - any pointers?
I just needed to restart Docker.
Linux users can use sudo service docker restart.
Docker for Mac has a handy button for this in the Docker widget in the macOS toolbar:
If you happen to be using Docker Toolkit try docker-machine restart.
I faced the same problem! Restarting the service didn't help, downloading again didn't help. It used to get stuck at random instances leaving me with no option but to kill the pull request.
One thing which worked for me was to download 1 file at a time. For Ubuntu users, you can use the following steps:
Stop the service:
sudo service docker stop
Start docker with max concurrent download set as 1:
sudo dockerd --max-concurrent-downloads 1
Download the required image:
sudo docker pull <image_name>
Download images, after that stop the terminal and start the daemon again as it was earlier.
sudo service docker start
I had the similar situation this morning where my network suddenly went down and I was forced to power cycle the modern, while docker-compose was still in the middle of downloading stuff from docker hub.
Yes, bouncing the docker daemon process seems to resolve this.
For Linux users - do sudo service docker restart to fix it.
Go to the Docker Preferences from its menu bar icon. Within there is a "bug" icon. Click on that and then "clean / Purge data"
I'm running OSX and restarting Docker for Mac didn't help. Neither did a full restart or upgrading VirtualBox. What did work was turning my wifi interface on and off every time it got stuck. I had to do this repeatedly, but it eventually downloaded the entire image.
Directly download the necessary images using docker, e.g.
docker pull company/container
and then run
docker-compose up
again. Worked for me on MacOS.
I found a possible workaround.
I have my docker engine installed in a Ubuntu 18.04 Snap Environment.
I discovered searching in some forums that users relate this behaviors to limitation in the download bandwith.
So in the picture below you are going to watch that the components was stucked
Part of the Downloads stucked and finally I cancelled the process CTRL + C
I added two parameters or flags in the configuration file that controls the docker daemon behavior: max-concurrent-downloads 1 and max-concurrent-uploads 1
In my case remember, i am working in a snap environment. This file is located in this directory: /var/lib/docker/current/config/daemon.json
REMEMBER TO STOP ALL DOCKER PROCESS BEFORE THE FILE MODIFICATION, AND CREATE BACKUP OF THE FILE
Add the two lines in the picture. This is going to help you to limit the downloads to only one by one
This is the process that helped me to resolve this problem.
Download Succesfull
I had this issue in my VirtualBox when doing a docker pull on the image but it got stuck at a specific position and never moved from there. So, the issue was due to the network adapters in my VM. I was using NAT by default. When I switched it to "Bridged adapter", the issue went away.
I had a similar problem on docker for windows for a couple of days and when I tried to connect to the virtual machine (via Hyper-V Manager) the downloads started speeding along. I have no idea why but it worked for me...
Completely remove docker
Install docker again
It should work now
I tried to restar docker, update docker, but didnt help