Minikube fails to start due to SSH handshake issue

[krstp]

What Happened?

Well.. I did have minikube running just fine under ubuntu. There were some laptop hibernations, which might have affected stability of minikube (assumption I make). Needless to say I wanted to reinstantiate my minikube start without success.

I did try:

• remove all docker instances/images to clean docker status
• restart docker with systemctl
• minikube delete --all --purge
• remove all docker networks
• restart minikube with more specific system conf like cpu and mem with increased verbosity and log dump to stderr, each of those tries fails
• regenerated ssh-key for minikube
• also verified there is nothing else using the docker port, which is fine.
  None of the above helped.

Here I found somewhat related post without clear resolution: #12939

I am out of option, not sure what to do at this point.

Attach the log file

I0330 18:26:42.865067 1191498 out.go:177] 🏃  Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...
🏃  Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...
I0330 18:26:42.866140 1191498 machine.go:93] provisionDockerMachine start ...
I0330 18:26:42.866429 1191498 cli_runner.go:164] Run: docker container inspect -f "'{{(index (index .NetworkSettings.Ports "22/tcp") 0).HostPort}}'" minikube
I0330 18:26:42.914275 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Using SSH client type: native
I0330 18:26:42.914972 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: &{{{<nil> 0 [] [] []} docker [0x8641c0] 0x866ea0 <nil>  [] 0s} 127.0.0.1 32768 <nil> <nil>}
I0330 18:26:42.915021 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: About to run SSH command:
hostname
I0330 18:26:42.916198 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:51978->127.0.0.1:32768: read: connection reset by peer
I0330 18:26:45.918668 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:51986->127.0.0.1:32768: read: connection reset by peer
I0330 18:26:48.921804 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:51996->127.0.0.1:32768: read: connection reset by peer
I0330 18:26:51.924714 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:34550->127.0.0.1:32768: read: connection reset by peer
I0330 18:26:54.926313 1191498 main.go:141] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:34556->127.0.0.1:32768: read: connection reset by peer

Operating System

ubuntu 24.0.4.1

Driver

minikube v1.35.0
docker 28.0.4

[krstp]

OK. Bizarrely, after reinstalling minikube and docker with the same versions, now minikube started just fine.

Not closing the ticket though, I hope I might get some reasonable resolution or tip that would point me in the right direction for any future issues.

Thanks!