OpenShift CRC not reachable

Hi Everyone,

After setting up crc start I got the below error , I think it has something to do with ssh key but I really couldn't figure it out. Appreciate your help.

System info:

centos9 running on VMware workstation bro 17+

Error:

sleeping 1s DEBU retry loop: attempt 262 DEBU Running SSH command: exit 0 DEBU Using ssh private keys: [/home/mfayez/.crc/machines/crc/id_ecdsa /home/mfayez/.crc/cache/crc_libvirt_4.16.4_amd64/id_ecdsa_crc] DEBU SSH command results: err: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain, output: DEBU error: Temporary error: ssh command error: command : exit 0 err : ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

OS release:

NAME="CentOS Stream" VERSION="9" ID="centos" ID_LIKE="rhel fedora" VERSION_ID="9" PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9" PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Stream 9" ANSI_COLOR="0;31" LOGO="fedora-logo-icon" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:9" HOME_URL="https://centos.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://issues.redhat.com/" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="CentOS Stream"

CRC version:

CRC version: 2.40.0+a14925 OpenShift version: 4.16.4 MicroShift version: 4.16.4

crc config view:

consent-telemetry : yes
cpus : 8
memory : 16384

CRC Status:

CRC VM: Running OpenShift: Unreachable (v4.16.4) Disk Usage: 0B of 0B (Inside the CRC VM) Cache Usage: 27.61GB Cache Directory: /home/mfayez/.crc/cache

I am getting this error as well when running systemctl status sshd:

Aug 26 10:58:45 localhost.localdomain sshd[7340]: Invalid user core from 127.0.0.1 port 39214 Aug 26 10:58:45 localhost.localdomain sshd[7340]: Connection closed by invalid user core 127.0.0.1 port 39214 [preauth]

crc-org / crc

OpenShift CRC not reachable #4330