Starting with QEMU storage-provisioner sometimes fails to enable

[spowelljr]

Setup:

• M1 Mac
• QEMU driver

Was able to replicate this on another M1 Mac, I'll try other configurations to see if it's general or not, it fails on both builtin and socket_vmnet networks

This is flakey for me, sometimes it starts and others it doesn't

From the output it looks completely fine:

$ minikube start --driver qemu --network socket_vmnet
😄  minikube v1.31.2 on Darwin 13.6 (arm64)
✨  Using the qemu2 driver based on user configuration
🌐  Automatically selected the socket_vmnet network
👍  Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🔥  Creating qemu2 VM (CPUs=2, Memory=4000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.28.2 on Docker 24.0.6 ...
    ▪ Generating certificates and keys ...
    ▪ Booting up control plane ...
    ▪ Configuring RBAC rules ...
🔗  Configuring bridge CNI (Container Networking Interface) ...
🔎  Verifying Kubernetes components...
🌟  Enabled addons: storage-provisioner, default-storageclass
🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default

$ minikube addons list
|-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------|
|         ADDON NAME          | PROFILE  |    STATUS    |           MAINTAINER           |
|-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------|
| ambassador                  | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Ambassador)         |
| auto-pause                  | minikube | disabled     | minikube                       |
| cloud-spanner               | minikube | disabled     | Google                         |
| csi-hostpath-driver         | minikube | disabled     | Kubernetes                     |
| dashboard                   | minikube | disabled     | Kubernetes                     |
| default-storageclass        | minikube | enabled ✅   | Kubernetes                     |
| efk                         | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Elastic)            |
| freshpod                    | minikube | disabled     | Google                         |
| gcp-auth                    | minikube | disabled     | Google                         |
| gvisor                      | minikube | disabled     | minikube                       |
| headlamp                    | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (kinvolk.io)         |
| helm-tiller                 | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Helm)               |
| inaccel                     | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (InAccel             |
|                             |          |              | [info@inaccel.com])            |
| ingress                     | minikube | disabled     | Kubernetes                     |
| ingress-dns                 | minikube | disabled     | minikube                       |
| inspektor-gadget            | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party                      |
|                             |          |              | (inspektor-gadget.io)          |
| istio                       | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Istio)              |
| istio-provisioner           | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Istio)              |
| kong                        | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Kong HQ)            |
| kubeflow                    | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party                      |
| kubevirt                    | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (KubeVirt)           |
| logviewer                   | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (unknown)            |
| metallb                     | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (MetalLB)            |
| metrics-server              | minikube | disabled     | Kubernetes                     |
| nvidia-device-plugin        | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (NVIDIA)             |
| nvidia-driver-installer     | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Nvidia)             |
| nvidia-gpu-device-plugin    | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Nvidia)             |
| olm                         | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Operator Framework) |
| pod-security-policy         | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (unknown)            |
| portainer                   | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Portainer.io)       |
| registry                    | minikube | disabled     | minikube                       |
| registry-aliases            | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (unknown)            |
| registry-creds              | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (UPMC Enterprises)   |
| storage-provisioner         | minikube | enabled ✅   | minikube                       |
| storage-provisioner-gluster | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Gluster)            |
| storage-provisioner-rancher | minikube | disabled     | 3rd party (Rancher)            |
| volumesnapshots             | minikube | disabled     | Kubernetes                     |
|-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------|

But if you check the pods it's not running

$ kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   coredns-5dd5756b68-ztv94           1/1     Running   0          4m53s
kube-system   etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0          5m6s
kube-system   kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0          5m7s
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0          5m6s
kube-system   kube-proxy-gf8r5                   1/1     Running   0          4m53s
kube-system   kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0          5m6s

Looking at the start logs:

I1010 16:32:35.316388   71687 addons_storage_classes.go:33] enableOrDisableStorageClasses default-storageclass=true on "minikube"
W1010 16:32:35.316720   71687 host.go:54] host status for "minikube" returned error: state: connect: dial unix /Users/powellsteven/.minikube/machines/minikube/monitor: connect: connection refused
W1010 16:32:35.316738   71687 addons.go:277] "minikube" is not running, setting storage-provisioner=true and skipping enablement (err=<nil>)

[spowelljr]

I tried 10 times on a non-M1 Mac and I'm not running into the issue

[spowelljr]

I tried adding a retry with a 1 second timeout to QEMUs d.RunQMPCommand("query-status") command. I tested it multiple times, and if it fails the first time, it always works on the second attempt, seems like the monitor just might not be accepting connections for a second and a retry seems to resolve it. I noticed that QEMU starts much faster on M1 than on an Intel Mac (34 seconds vs 1 min 26 seconds) so I'm thinking that might be causing the difference.