Minikube Start Stuck Pulling base image

Question

I have been trying to setup minikube but the command is stuck at pulling base image since forever

Answer 1

It's not stuck; it is just not showing the output of the downloading progress. It's an 800 MB file, it takes time to download.

See https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/7012

Answer 2

If you are getting an error like failed to download kic base image or any fallback image run the following command

minikube delete --all --purge

then start the cluster using minikube start

(Link to the original issue - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/8997)