cannot execute 'kubelet --version': executable file not found in $PATH

[rahul-satal]

What Happened?

Log file-
logs.txt

$ minikube start
😄 minikube v1.33.1 on Darwin 14.4.1 (arm64)
✨ Automatically selected the docker driver. Other choices: virtualbox, ssh
📌 Using Docker Desktop driver with root privileges
👍 Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
🚜 Pulling base image v0.0.44 ...
💾 Downloading Kubernetes v1.30.0 preload ...
> preloaded-images-k8s-v18-v1...: 319.81 MiB / 319.81 MiB 100.00% 3.10 Mi
> gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase...: 435.76 MiB / 435.76 MiB 100.00% 3.37 Mi
🔥 Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=4000MB) ...
🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.30.0 on Docker 26.1.1 ...
💢 initialization failed, will try again: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.30.0:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,NumCPU,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.30.0
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: swap is supported for cgroup v2 only; the NodeSwap feature gate of the kubelet is beta but disabled by default
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': executable file not found in $PATH
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

💣 Error starting cluster: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.30.0:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,NumCPU,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.30.0
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: swap is supported for cgroup v2 only; the NodeSwap feature gate of the kubelet is beta but disabled by default
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': executable file not found in $PATH
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ 😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │
│ 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │
│ │
│ Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

❌ Exiting due to GUEST_START: failed to start node: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.30.0:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,NumCPU,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.30.0
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
[WARNING Swap]: swap is supported for cgroup v2 only; the NodeSwap feature gate of the kubelet is beta but disabled by default
[WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
[ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': executable file not found in $PATH
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with --ignore-preflight-errors=...
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher

╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ 😿 If the above advice does not help, please let us know: │
│ 👉 https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose │
│ │
│ Please run minikube logs --file=logs.txt and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue. │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Attach the log file

logs.txt

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

None

[T-Lakshmi]

@rahul-satal,
Delete minikube and reinstall with below commands.

minikube delete --all --purge
minikube start

[T-Lakshmi]

/kind support
Duplicate of #18939

[romu42]

I am currently seeing the same issue. I have tested without any success.

minikube delete --all --purge
minikube start

Should I open a separate ticket or is it possible to get help through this one?

[spowelljr]

I put some debug instructions in #19110, to centralize discussion I'm going to close this issue as a duplicate of #19110, please follow along there, thank you.