Rancher -Desktop on my Mac is now proper broken. I added a PV in Kubectl and the HostPath didn’t exist. I created it and still couldn’t delete the PV. I’d removed the PVClaim previously. This was the last thing I did and it appears to have broken Kube with Rancher-Desktop. I’ve tried to do “Reset Kubernetes” and a “Factory Reset”, but the “Reset Kubernetes” just gives

2022-11-14T14:35:20.398Z: Lima: executing: sudo /sbin/rc-service --ifstarted buildkitd stop: Error: /Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl> exited with code 255

I’ve tried moving my .kube/config so it got recreated with clean, empty set.

{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "clusters": [],
  "contexts": [],
  "current-context": null,
  "kind": "Config",
  "preferences": {},
  "users": []
}

I’ve also restarted my OS. The logs don’t appear to show much either. All the above was with v1.19.16 and I’ve tried the latest, stable version (v1.25.3) Rancher Version: 1.6.2 Any help appreciated.

Hmm, we could try manually deleting the VM to try to unwedge it. Quit Rancher Desktop, and run

LIMA_HOME="~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima" "/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" delete -f 0

to try to get rid of it?

@proud-jewelry-46860 Thanks for the response - really appreciated. That

0

instance doesn’t exist. I don’t have ANY instances.

$ LIMA_HOME="~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima" "/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" delete -f 0
WARN[0000] Ignoring non-existent instance "0"

$ LIMA_HOME="~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima" "/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" list
WARN[0000] No instance found. Run `limactl start` to create an instance.
NAME    STATUS    SSH    ARCH    CPUS    MEMORY    DISK    DIR

Are there any manual locations I should be looking to completely remove Rancher-Desktop and try again. I ask that because uninstalling and re-installing hasn’t worked and when I configure Rancher Desktop for no Kubernetes, no Traefik and just containerd, I’m still getting errors.

Odd. The manual location is

~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/

, basically (unless I made a typo somewhere…); that's why it needed to be on the command line.

@proud-jewelry-46860 - Thanks for that. Uninstalling Rancher Desktop, manually deleting that directory and re-installing appears to have fixed the issue. 🙂

Glad that worked for you, but it's still odd that a factory reset didn't wipe that for you :(