xdg-open: no method available for opening on an Ubuntu machine

[danielhabakkuk]

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. minikube service mongo-express-service

🎉 Opening service default/mongo-express-service in default browser...
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://10.128.0.4:30000'

❌ Exiting due to HOST_BROWSER: exit status 3

😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know:

Full output of minikube start command used, if not already included:

Optional: Full output of minikube logs command:

[RA489]

/kind support

[afbjorklund]

You can set your preferred web browser in your desktop settings, or you can export the $BROWSER environment variable.

Alternatively, you can use --url to just print it to the console instead of trying to opening it with the default web browser ?

[afbjorklund]

I think Firefox is the default in Ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebBrowsers

Like so: firefox http://10.128.0.4:30000

[medyagh]

@danielhabakkuk your OS does not support openning link into browser,have u tried to open the url manually in your browser ?

[afbjorklund]

Probably needs an entry in the documentation, for people trying to run on control plane in a dedicated VM with only a CLI ?

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues?q=is%3Aissue+%22xdg-open%22

It would be possible to tunnel in special ports, and open them in a browser on another machine - like Katacoda is doing ?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/hello-minikube/#create-a-minikube-cluster

Step 4 - Dashboard

Enable the dashboard using Minikube with the command minikube addons enable dashboard

Make the Kubernetes Dashboard available by deploying the following YAML definition. This should only be used on Katacoda.

kubectl apply -f /opt/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml

The Kubernetes dashboard allows you to view your applications in a UI. In this deployment, the dashboard has been made available on port 30000 but may take a while to start.

https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes/launch-single-node-cluster

It's also possible that the user does have a virtual desktop set up just for minikube, but forgot to install a web browser in it...

[sharifelgamal]

I'm going to turn this issue into a documentation issue for CLI-only environments.

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[npabb001]

if I want to set the $HOST_BROWSER or $BROWSER env variable, what should be the value?

[afbjorklund]

Popular choices include "firefox" or "chromium-browser"

Usually just through "Preferred Applications", or somesuch