The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

[lucas-sw]

What Happened?

I am begginner to minikube, I'm learning to the chapter named getStart in minikube documen.
when I choose macOs, ARM64, Stable, Binary Download . And Installed succeeded.
however, i meet the problem as following.

it seems like the minikube fialed to start, but I don't know what's wrong

Attach the log file

minikube logs --file=log.txt
E0621 07:30:12.210317 44240 logs.go:256] failed to output audit logs: failed to create audit report: failed to set the log file: unable to open /Users/sunwang/.minikube/logs/audit.json: open /Users/sunwang/.minikube/logs/audit.json: permission denied
🤷 The control plane node "" does not exist.
👉 To start a cluster, run: "minikube start"

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

No response

[kv5h]

Hi, some says below will resolve the problem:

mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config

Ref: kubernetes/kubernetes#50295

[zhan9san]

Hi @lucas-sw

I am glad to help you.

Could you plz provide more detailed information? e.g. the full console output of minikube start command.

And if you never add config in ~/.kube folder, you can try to remote this folder. and try the following command.

minikube delete
minikube start

[RA489]

@lucas-sw could you please check if api server is actually running and hasn’t crashed?

[RA489]

/kind support
/triage needs-information

[spowelljr]

Hi @lucas-sw, we haven't heard back from you, do you still have this issue?
There isn't enough information in this issue to make it actionable, and a long enough duration has passed, so this issue is likely difficult to replicate.

I will close this issue for now but feel free to reopen when you feel ready to provide more information.

[Ramyavoora]

when im trying to install kubectl on ubuntu instance getting below error as The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
Please help me out to get out of this error