brew services start doesn't start colima

[lfuelling]

Description

The output of brew install colima outputs the following:

To start colima now and restart at login:
  brew services start colima

Because of this, I'd expect that brew services start colima would start colima, but it doesn't seem to do so.

Version

colima version 0.6.7 git commit: ba1be00e9aec47f2c1ffdacfb7e428e465f0b58a limactl version 0.19.1 qemu-img version 8.2.0

Operating System

• [ ] macOS Intel <= 13 (Ventura)
• [ ] macOS Intel >= 14 (Sonoma)
• [ ] Apple Silicon <= 13 (Ventura)
• [X] Apple Silicon >= 14 (Sonoma)
• [ ] Linux

Output of colima status

FATA[0000] colima is not running

Reproduction Steps

1. Run brew install colima

   [...]
   To start colima now and restart at login:
   brew services start colima
   [...]

2. Run brew services start colima

   [...]
   ==> Successfully started `colima` (label: homebrew.mxcl.colima)

3. Run colima status

   FATA[0000] colima is not running

Expected behaviour

Colima should be started after the Successfully started colima message.

Additional context

No response

[larafonse]

Seeing this issue on M3 laptop

[n8eloy]

It could take longer (around 20 seconds) than brew's Successfully started ... output for Colima to actually start

The command may also be failing to change the Docker context to Colima

You can see the available contexts with:

docker context ls

So after starting Colima with brew services start colima and after the colima context shows up, try running:

docker context use colima

[francois-beauchemin]

Had a similar issue . Check the logs at /opt/homebrew/var/log/colima.log

My error was that it did not found docker For some reason i needed to run brew link docker then the brew services worked

[mpereira]

@francois-beauchemin I just had to do the same, thanks for reporting!