minikube dashboard hang after vm restart

Question

I follow the guide to install a test minikube on my virtualbox of ubuntu-18.04. It's a virtualbox on my windows computer.so I use sudo minikube start --vm-driver=none to start minikube. then execute minikube dashboard ....I can access http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/ with the generated token. Everything is well by now.

BUT I need to poweroff my computer on weekends. So I stop minikube and shutdown the ubuntu vm.

sudo minikube stop
sudo shutdown

When I back to work on Monday, I can't access the dashboard UI WEB, sudo minikube dashboard hangs until I press Ctrl+C. minikube dashboard hangs until I press Ctrl+C

How can I restore the wei ui? or is there anything I need to do before shutdown the vm?

sudo kubectl get services --all-namespaces sudo kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o wide CAN see the service and pods of dashboard are running. sudo -E minikube dashboard --logtostderr --v=5 GET I1111 15:18:36.165182 10028 dashboard.go:148] Success! I will now quietly sit around until kubectl proxy exits! ^C — clara
Could you please tell us which version of minikube are you using? — Wytrzymały Wiktor

Wytrzymały Wiktor Wytrzymały Wiktor · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-19T09:19:06

minikube dashborad starts alongside kubectl proxy. The process waits for kubectl proxy to finish but apparently it never does, therefore the command never exits or ends. This is happening because of a security precautions. kubectl proxy runs underneath to enforce additional security restrictions in order to prevent DNS repining attacks.

What you can do is restart the minikube with a current config and data cleanup and than start a fresh new instance:

minikube stop
rm -rf  ~/.minikube
minikube start

Please let me know if that helped.

minikube dashboard hang after vm restart

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