As you might already recognized a lot of our blogposts look trivial. If not we are very happy you learn! My motivation to write blogposts is to

1. Find an answer when I google it in three months, because I have the problem again
2. Tell the people out there of the problem – and if they have it, maybe they remember I read this solution on Winkelwagen – and can look it up again!

So here is another simple solution, which is already well documented on the colima github issue, but I want to sum it up (As you can read here – i’m very bad at summing up…)

I don’t know why, but my colima didn’t start:

-> % colima start
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0001] starting ...                                  context=vm
> Using the existing instance "colima"
> errors inspecting instance: [failed to get Info from "/Users/fabian/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock": Get "http://lima-hostagent/v1/info": dial unix /Users/fabian/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock: connect: connection refused]
FATA[0001] error starting vm: error at 'starting': exit status 1 

Colima? What is colima

Colima is a docker alternative. As far as I know it is a drop in replacement, like MariaDB was in the beginning for MySQL – it is not anymore! But still a great database <3 I learned about it due to ddev – shoutout to Randy Fay – awesome guy, helpful, nice – you are the best!

What was the problem?

I have no clue. But colima start/stop didn’t help.

And although the comments on the issue say, that limactl stop -f colima is the same as colima stop -f it didn’t do the same for me.

Solution

colima stop -f?did the trick for me.

Here are the last steps of my journey:

-> % limactl stop -f colima
INFO[0000] The qemu driver process seems already stopped 
INFO[0000] The host agent process seems already stopped 
INFO[0000] Removing /Users/fabian/.lima/colima under "*.pid *.sock *.tmp" 
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/fabian/.lima/colima/ha.sock" 
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/fabian/.lima/colima/qmp.sock" 
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/fabian/.lima/colima/serial.sock" 
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/fabian/.lima/colima/serialp.sock" 
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/fabian/.lima/colima/serialv.sock" 

-> % colima list           
PROFILE    STATUS    ARCH       CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      RUNTIME    ADDRESS
default    Broken    aarch64    8       16GiB     600GiB               

-> % colima start
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0000] starting ...                                  context=vm
> Using the existing instance "colima"
> errors inspecting instance: [failed to get Info from "/Users/fabian/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock": Get "http://lima-hostagent/v1/info": dial unix /Users/fabian/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock: connect: connection refused]
FATA[0000] error starting vm: error at 'starting': exit status 1 

-> % colima stop -f
INFO[0000] stopping colima                              
INFO[0000] stopping ...                                  context=vm
INFO[0000] done

-> % colima list   
PROFILE    STATUS     ARCH       CPUS    MEMORY    DISK      RUNTIME    ADDRESS
default    Stopped    aarch64    8       16GiB     600GiB   

-> % colima start  
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0000] starting ...                                  context=vm
INFO[0029] provisioning ...                              context=docker
INFO[0029] starting ...                                  context=docker
INFO[0031] done                                         

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