Multipass aliases seems to be present even after uninstall and reinstall

[anuranjit]

Describe the bug Local multipass got courrupted and the file system became read only. Post this removed all aliases and images and uninstalled multipass pass using "/Library/Application Support/com.canonical.multipass/uninstall.sh" and reinstalled multipass . The multipass alias command still shows aliases .

Expected behavior What did you expect to happen? There should not be any aliases post uninstall Logs multipassd.log

Additional info

• OS: macOS 14.5
  • multipass version: 1.13
  • multipass info: no instances
  • multipass get local.driver:qemu

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[ricab]

Hi @anuranjit. I think you're right that we don't remove aliases on uninstall on macOS. That's something to fix indeed.

However, I don't understand what you mean by:

The multipass alias command still shows aliases .

If you uninstalled, the multipass command should not be available at all. Unless you reinstalled?

[anuranjit]

@ricab If run the command as below it still shows aliases

➜  ~ multipass aliases
Alias            Instance     Command          Context      Working directory
docker           docker-dev   docker           docker-dev   map
docker-compose   docker-dev   docker-compose   docker-dev   map

and when i try to unalias it says alias not found

➜  ~ multipass unalias docker
Nonexistent alias: docker.
➜  ~

[ricab]

Hmm I see. Do you have a Multipass folder in "~/Library/Application Support/"? And do you have a bin directory inside? If so, what are its contents?

[anuranjit]

@ricab

➜  ~ cd /Library/Application\ Support
➜  Application Support ls
App Store                       Logitech.localized              com.apple.TVIdleScreen
Apple                           Mica                            com.apple.backgroundassets.user
ApplePushService                Microsoft                       com.apple.idleassetsd
ArubaOnboard                    Mozilla                         com.canonical.multipass
BTServer                        ProApps                         com.expressvpn.ExpressVPN
CrashReporter                   Script Editor                   iLifeMediaBrowser
Fortinet                        VMware                          livefsd
Google                          com.apple.TCC                   zoom.us
➜  Application Support ls | grep multi
com.canonical.multipass
➜  Application Support cd com.canonical.multipass
➜  com.canonical.multipass ls
Resources    bin          lib          plugins      uninstall.sh
➜  com.canonical.multipass cd bin
➜  bin ls
multipass           multipassd          qemu-system-aarch64 sshfs_server
multipass.gui.app   qemu-img            qemu-system-x86_64
➜  bin

[ricab]

Hi @anuranjit, thanks but I meant in your home: "~/Library/Application Support/" (note the tilde at the beginning). But anyway, I believe we have enough to address this.

[anuranjit]

@ricab Any timeline for fix or any solution ?

[ricab]

I am afraid not @anuranjit. We are very busy with many things and I don't think this would be a very high priority. We'll try to do it, perhaps for one release after the one we are about to publish, but I can't make any promises.

That said, you should be able to remove your aliases manually. But I would need the contents of the folder I pointed to above to help you do that.

[anuranjit]

@ricab

Dock                                    Mozilla                                 com.apple.RemoteManagementAgent         com.nordvpn.macos                       zoom.us
➜  Application Support ls -ltr | grep multipa
drwxr-xr-x   4 anuranjit  staff   128 Mar 17  2023 multipass-client-certificate
drwxr-xr-x   3 anuranjit  staff    96 Mar 17  2023 multipass
drwxr-xr-x   3 anuranjit  staff    96 May 28 22:34 multipass-gui
➜  Application Support
➜  Application Support cd multipass
➜  multipass ls
bin
➜  multipass cd bin
➜  bin ls
docker                    docker-compose            docker-dev.docker         docker-dev.docker-compose docker.docker             docker.docker-compose
➜  bin ls -ltr
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff  116 Jun  3 19:09 docker-dev.docker-compose
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff  105 Jun  3 19:09 docker-compose
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff  108 Jun  3 19:09 docker-dev.docker
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff   97 Jun  3 19:09 docker
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff  112 Jul 11 01:42 docker.docker-compose
-rwxr-xr-x  1 anuranjit  staff  104 Jul 11 01:42 docker.docker
➜  bin

[ricab]

Thank you @anuranjit, it is those docker* executables that are leftover and you can manually remove.

[anuranjit]

@ricab After doing that also

➜  bin ls
➜  bin multipass aliases
Alias            Instance     Command          Context      Working directory
docker           docker-dev   docker           docker-dev   map
docker-compose   docker-dev   docker-compose   docker-dev   map
➜  bin multipass aliases

[ricab]

Hmm, there is more to it then... Do you see a ~/Library/Preferences/multipass/multipass_aliases.json or similar? Anything relating to Multipass under ~/Library/Preferences?