Waiting for essential requirement ssh

[david-sauvage]

Hey there,

I'm facing an issue that seems to be known but can't get thought it.
I've been working with colima to start a few docker container for over 2 months and since yesterday, colima does not start, waiting for ssh.

$ colima start
INFO[0000] using docker runtime                         
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] starting ...                                  context=vm
> msg="Using the existing instance \"colima\""
> msg="[hostagent] local user \"DAVID\" is not a valid Linux username (must match \"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$\"); using \"lima\" username instead"
> msg="[hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see \"/Users/DAVID/.lima/colima/serial.log\")"
> msg="SSH Local Port: 53756"
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""

Here is the version :
$ colima version colima version 0.3.4 git commit: 5a4a70481ca8d1e794677f22524e3c1b79a9b4ae

Here is the serial log :
serial.log

And seems it may caused by libslirp

$ brew info libslirp
libslirp: stable 4.6.1 (bottled)

Tell me if you need other informations or anything I can do to solve this.

Thank you !

[abiosoft]

• Does it simply get stuck waiting for ssh or it eventually crashes?
• Can you kindly share the verbose output

  colima start --verbose
  

• Can you try starting another instance by specifying a profile name.

  colima start second # this starts another instance named 'second'.

[david-sauvage]

It eventually crashes.

Here is the verbose output (seems close to the normal one) :

$ colima start --verbose
INFO[0000] using docker runtime                         
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] starting ...                                  context=vm
> msg="Using the existing instance \"colima\""
> msg="[hostagent] local user \"DAVID\" is not a valid Linux username (must match \"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$\"); using \"lima\" username instead"
> msg="[hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see \"/Users/DAVID/.lima/colima/serial.log\")"
> msg="SSH Local Port: 49478"
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \"ssh\""
> msg="did not receive an event with the \"running\" status"
FATA[0600] error starting vm: error at 'starting': exit status 1 

On the other side using another new profile worked :

$ colima start second
INFO[0000] starting colima [profile=second]             
INFO[0000] creating and starting ...                     context=vm
INFO[0030] provisioning ...                              context=docker
INFO[0030] restarting VM to complete setup ...           context=docker
INFO[0030] stopping ...                                  context=vm
INFO[0036] starting ...                                  context=vm
INFO[0057] starting ...                                  context=docker
INFO[0062] waiting for startup to complete ...           context=docker
INFO[0062] done     

After that I have an empty docker state but it could help me.
Is there anyway to reset the default profile in order to have everything cleaned up ?

Thank you so much for your help 👍

[abiosoft]

Is there anyway to reset the default profile in order to have everything cleaned up ?

Yeah, by deleting it via colima delete. You can simply delete and restart the default profile and it should work.
As for deleting other profiles it is colima delete <profile-name> e.g. colima delete second.

[abiosoft]

I will be closing this. Feel free to re-open if you are still having the issue.

[david-sauvage]

Everything is working fine for me now.
Thank you so much !