I'm encountering the following kubernetes launching error and am unable to start the Docker daemon. Could you please tell me how to resolve it?

'time="2025-06-23T19:49:36+09:00" level=debug msg="ResolveVMType: resolved VMType \\"qemu\\" (explicitly specified in []*LimaYAML{o,y,d}[1])"\n' +
    'time="2025-06-23T19:49:36+09:00" level=debug msg="Make sure \\"rancher-desktop-shared\\" network is stopped"\n' +
    'time="2025-06-23T19:49:36+09:00" level=info msg="Stopping socket_vmnet daemon for \\"rancher-desktop-shared\\" network"\n' +
    'time="2025-06-23T19:49:36+09:00" level=fatal msg="passwordLessSudo error: failed to run [sudo --user root --group wheel --non-interactive true]: exit status 1"\n',
  code: 1,
  [Symbol(child-process.command)]: '/Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl --debug start --tty=false 0'
}
2025-06-23T10:49:36.797Z: Progress: errored Starting Backend: Error: /Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl exited with code 1

Environment: • macOS 14.4 • Apple M3 16GB

There is something wrong with the

sudo

setup. Do you really need "Admin access"? The only things it provides is having the docker socket at

/var/run/docker.sock

and getting an external IP address for the VM. The default socket location is rarely needed as most software now correctly handle docker contexts. And the external IP address is only needed if you want to access your containers from other machines in the local network.

Thank you for advise! I could move forward, but I still have an issue. When I reinstalled rancher-desktop, I could not get

.rd/docker.sock

.

You need to use the

rancher-desktop

context:

docker context use rancher-desktop

Sorry for the lack of explanation. Even after reinstalling Rancher Desktop,

rancher-desktop

isn't present in my Docker context. This is the output of

docker context ls

.

NAME        DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT               ERROR
default *   Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   unix:///var/run/docker.sock

Once you have confirmed the issue, can you leave an update here? Or as a discussion entry on GitHub?

I noticed this issue comes from lima, not rancher-desktop. I got totally same problems when installing and running colima. My issue is cloud-init failure, maybe. I' ll notify specific issue in slack lima channel👍