minishift broke and now will not start even after reinstall

[nhojpatrick]

General information

• Minishift version: 3.11.0
• OS: macOS
• Hypervisor: VirtualBox

Minishift was working fine for months, then earlier this week it was running, laptop went to sleep and then has never been able to successfully start.

The original error was about certificates and according to closed tickets requires minishift delete && minishift start but that just kept coming up with the same error message each time but for the new ip address in the dhcp sequence.

Then other closed tickets talked about deleting minishift and reinstalling and that is where I'm now at with and error message about unknown machine with the mac address the network interface shows in virtual box.

Based on other tickets these issues are well known and have documented solutions, but all the google queries just take me to the closed tickets and no solutions. I assumed they would be here but are not https://docs.okd.io/3.11/minishift/troubleshooting/index.html.

Steps to reproduce

1. % minishift delete -f
2. % brew remove minishift -f
3. % rm -rf ~/.minishift
4. % brew install minishift --no-quarantine
5. % minishift config set vm-driver virtualbox
6. % minishift start

Expected

minishift start successfully

Actual

FAIL E0204 20:52:39.438264 3356 start.go:499] Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error creating machine: Error running provisioning: Could not find matching IP for MAC address 080027c84db6. Retrying.
Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error creating machine: Error running provisioning: Could not find matching IP for MAC address 080027c84db6

Logs

(minishift) DBG | STDERR:
(minishift) DBG | {
(minishift) DBG | }
(minishift) DBG | Host-only MAC: 080027c84db6
(minishift) DBG | 
(minishift) DBG | Using SSH client type: external
(minishift) DBG | Using SSH private key: /Users/user/.minishift/machines/minishift/id_rsa (-rw-------)
(minishift) DBG | &{[-F /dev/null -o ConnectionAttempts=3 -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlMaster=no -o ControlPath=none -o LogLevel=quiet -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null docker@127.0.0.1 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i /Users/user/.minishift/machines/minishift/id_rsa -p 49707] /usr/local/bin/ssh <nil>}
(minishift) DBG | About to run SSH command:
(minishift) DBG | ip addr show
(minishift) DBG | SSH cmd err, output: <nil>: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
...
(minishift) DBG | 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
(minishift) DBG |     link/ether 08:00:27:c8:4d:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
(minishift) DBG |     inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fec8:4db6/64 scope link 
(minishift) DBG |        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
(minishift) DBG | 
(minishift) DBG | SSH returned: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
...
(minishift) DBG | 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
(minishift) DBG |     link/ether 08:00:27:c8:4d:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
(minishift) DBG |     inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fec8:4db6/64 scope link 
(minishift) DBG |        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
(minishift) DBG | 
(minishift) DBG | END SSH
(minishift) DBG | 
 FAIL E0204 20:52:39.438264    3356 start.go:499] Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error creating machine: Error running provisioning: Could not find matching IP for MAC address 080027c84db6. Retrying.
Error starting the VM: Error creating the VM. Error creating machine: Error running provisioning: Could not find matching IP for MAC address 080027c84db6