Can't Seem to Get K3D to finish creating a cluster

[nickrazes]

Hello everyone:

I'm trying to use k3d to create a cluster and it doesn't seem to want to work for me. How long does it take for you to do it? Minutes? Hours? After installing docker, kubectl, and k3d, if I run the command:

k3d cluster create mycluster --api-port 6443 --servers 1 --agents 1 -p 30000-32767:30000-32767@server:0

it makes it to INFO[0026] Starting Node 'k3d-portainer-agent-0' and just sits there. How long does it take?

I've also tried the following command:

k3d cluster create mycluster --api-port 6443 --servers 1 --agents 1 -p 30000:30000@server:0

and I seem to be having the same problem.

What do you think? Should I just let it run all night? or is there something wrong somewhere?

Thanks in advance for your time/replies.

[Spence99]

For anyone who runs across this, it should execute pretty quick, if not something is likely wrong. I had a similar issue, though, where it would sit there for hours. You can try checking docker ps and docker logs NODE_NAME (replacing it with your node name, in this case "k3d-portainer-agent-0")

I'm running a RHEL 9.5 machine, and the docker logs gave me the specific error "failed to find cpu cgroup (v2)". I fixed my errors by reverting to cgroup version 1 and making sure docker was using the default context (i.e. not rootless).

Some resources I found helpful for RedHat:

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/new-features#new-features-boot-loader
• https://rootlesscontaine.rs/getting-started/common/cgroup2/