Error downloading checksum file: net/http: TLS handshake timeout

[billlih]

The exact command to reproduce the issue: minikube start

The full output of the command that failed:

• minikube v1.3.1 on Ubuntu 14.04
  ! Please don't run minikube as root or with 'sudo' privileges. It isn't necessary with virtualbox driver.
• Downloading VM boot image ...

X Failed to cache ISO

• Error: [DOWNLOAD_IO_TIMEOUT] https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.3.0.iso: invalid checksum: Error downloading checksum file: Get https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.3.0.iso.sha256: net/http: TLS handshake timeout
• Suggestion: A firewall is likely blocking minikube from reaching the internet. You may need to configure minikube to use a proxy.
• Documentation: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/networking/proxy/
• Related issues:
  • how to skip download kubeadm & kubelet . because I download these in $PATH. #3846
• If the above advice does not help, please let us know:
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose

The output of the minikube logs command:

The operating system version:
VMware® Workstation 12 Pro --- Ubuntu14.04

[billlih]

https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.3.0.iso

I can use my browser to download this file to my PC .

[tstromberg]

It appears that your Ubuntu machine does not have full access to the internet. Are you running minikube from China by any chance?

You can check by using curl to dowload the ISO: curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/iso/minikube-v1.3.0.iso

If you aren't able to use the internet, you can download the ISO file to ~/.minikube/cache/iso. You'll also need the appropriate docker images though, so I suggest running minikube start --download-only once from a machine with access to the internet, and copying ~/.minikube/cache over from there.

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/disk_cache/

[tstromberg]

This issue appears to be a duplicate of #5182, so I will close this one so that we may centralize the content relating to the issue. If you feel that this issue is not in fact a duplicate, please feel free to re-open it. If you have additional information to share, please add it to the new issue.

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