Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to start container runtime: which crictl: Process exited with status 1

[debabmon]

What Happened?

ubuntu@powervm20:~$ minikube start --driver=docker --container-runtime=docker
😄 minikube v1.33.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 (ppc64le)
✨ Using the docker driver based on existing profile
👍 Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
🚜 Pulling base image v0.0.44 ...
🏃 Updating the running docker "minikube" container ...

❌ Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to start container runtime: which crictl: Process exited with status 1
stdout:

stderr:

Attach the log file

logs.txt

Operating System

Ubuntu

Driver

None

[T-Lakshmi]

/kind support

[afbjorklund]

docker support for container runtime is completely removed in k8s version v1.24 and is now no longer supported.

Docker is supported through cri-dockerd, and is still the default container runtime in minikube

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[T-Lakshmi]

@afbjorklund, Agree. thanks for correcting me.

From the logs below is the error causing to not install minikube.

Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to start container runtime: which crictl: Process exited with status 1

This is due to missing crictl which is imissing to install.

[T-Lakshmi]

@debabmon,
Before Kubernetes 1.24, the support for docker was included with the installation (called "dockershim").

After that, you need to make sure to install all the needed components:
docker, cri-dockerd, cri-tools, cni-plugins

Eventually minikube should be able to "provision" these as well, but right now it does not.

[T-Lakshmi]

This is duplicate issue of #15914

/triage duplicate
/kind support

[T-Lakshmi]

@debabmon,
install the missing components and try to reinstall minikube.
share the update here to proceed further.