Issue with k8s.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/

[ghost]

This is a Bug Report

Problem:
Running minikube start as the setup guide suggests yields the following failure:

james@james-desktop:~$ cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=cosmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.10"
VERSION_ID="18.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=cosmic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=cosmic
james@james-desktop:~$ curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 \
>   && chmod +x minikube
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 38.2M  100 38.2M    0     0  6992k      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:-- 7456k
james@james-desktop:~$ sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin && rm minikube
james@james-desktop:~$ minikube start
😄  minikube v1.0.0 on linux (amd64)
🤹  Downloading Kubernetes v1.14.0 images in the background ...
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
🔥  Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
💿  Downloading Minikube ISO ...
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
2019/04/13 20:05:33 No matching credentials were found, falling back on anonymous
 142.88 MB / 142.88 MB [============================================] 100.00% 0s
📶  "minikube" IP address is 192.168.99.105
🐳  Configuring Docker as the container runtime ...
🐳  Version of container runtime is 18.06.2-ce
⌛  Waiting for image downloads to complete ...
✨  Preparing Kubernetes environment ...
💾  Downloading kubeadm v1.14.0
💾  Downloading kubelet v1.14.0

💣  Failed to setup kubeconfig: writing kubeconfig: Error writing file : open : no such file or directory

😿  Sorry that minikube crashed. If this was unexpected, we would love to hear from you:
👉  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new

I found running sudo minikube start lets minikube start successfully:

james@james-desktop:~$ sudo minikube start
😄  minikube v1.0.0 on linux (amd64)
🤹  Downloading Kubernetes v1.14.0 images in the background ...
🔥  Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2048MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
📶  "minikube" IP address is 192.168.99.107
🐳  Configuring Docker as the container runtime ...
🐳  Version of container runtime is 18.06.2-ce
⌛  Waiting for image downloads to complete ...
✨  Preparing Kubernetes environment ...
🚜  Pulling images required by Kubernetes v1.14.0 ...
🚀  Launching Kubernetes v1.14.0 using kubeadm ... 
⌛  Waiting for pods: apiserver proxy etcd scheduler controller dns
🔑  Configuring cluster permissions ...
🤔  Verifying component health .....
💗  kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"
💡  For best results, install kubectl: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
🏄  Done! Thank you for using minikube!

However any further interaction with minikube / kubectl also requires the use of sudo to function properly which is not desirable.

Page to Update:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/

[tstromberg]

Issue moved to kubernetes/minikube #4100 via ZenHub

[tstromberg]

The error message indicates that minikube wasn't able to update ~/.kube/config, but I'm also at a loss to explain why it isn't showing the path. I've moved the bug to the minikube repo to investigate it there.

Anyways, sudo shouldn't be required for minikube.

[tstromberg]

Update: It looks like I don't have permissions to close issues here. :(

[DanyC97]

@tstromberg many thanks to you and @afbjorklund for responding so quickly here & slack.
I'll close this issue now that it was moved to minikube repo

[DanyC97]

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@DanyC97: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

/close

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