kind create cluster failing

[felixtran39]

What happened:
Trying to call kind create cluster and it fails at the Writing configuration step. Here is the error message:
ERROR: failed to create cluster: failed to generate kubeadm config content: failed to get kubernetes version from node: failed to get file: command "docker exec --privileged kind-control-plane cat /kind/version" failed with error: exit status 126

What you expected to happen:
Successfully create a cluster when calling kind create cluster.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
All I did was download kind (via gcloud components install kind) and then run kind create cluster.

Anything else we need to know?:
I ran with -v 1 flag and got this:

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:101: executing setns process caused \"exit status 1\"": unknown

Stack Trace: 
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors.WithStack
        /src/pkg/errors/errors.go:51
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/exec.(*LocalCmd).Run
        /src/pkg/exec/local.go:116
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/internal/providers/docker.(*nodeCmd).Run
        /src/pkg/cluster/internal/providers/docker/node.go:130
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/exec.CombinedOutputLines
        /src/pkg/exec/helpers.go:67
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/nodeutils.KubeVersion
        /src/pkg/cluster/nodeutils/util.go:58
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/internal/create/actions/config.getKubeadmConfig
        /src/pkg/cluster/internal/create/actions/config/config.go:172
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/cluster/internal/create/actions/config.(*Action).Execute.func1.1
        /src/pkg/cluster/internal/create/actions/config/config.go:84
sigs.k8s.io/kind/pkg/errors.UntilErrorConcurrent.func1
        /src/pkg/errors/concurrent.go:30
runtime.goexit
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1357

When calling docker exec --privileged kind-control-plane cat /kind/version, I get
Error: No such container: kind-control-plane

Environment:

• kind version: (use kind version): kind v0.7.0 go1.13.6 linux/amd64
• Kubernetes version: (use kubectl version):

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"15+", GitVersion:"v1.15.11-dispatcher", GitCommit:"f2a77f678d6baccda27740d700f6cba2754dfacf", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-04-21T04:42:07Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.17", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"15+", GitVersion:"v1.15.11-gke.15", GitCommit:"8ce551a0c972a9f113e326df0537aa3f1798d93e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-05-05T18:38:03Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.17b4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Docker version: (use docker info): 19.03.12
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

[BenTheElder]

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:101: executing setns process caused "exit status 1"": unknown

this is a failure in docker / runc

can you tell me more about your environment?

an yreason to not use the latest kind release? install method, I see

[BenTheElder]

This means we can't docker exec into the node container from the host. Probably your docker environment has a bug.

can you share docker info?

[BenTheElder]

opencontainers/runc#1740
moby/moby#40399

It appears this usually happens due to running out of memory, it can also happen with userns-remap enabled moby/moby#31037, there seem to be a number of reasons.

moby/moby#25929

they're not related to anything kind is doing though

[felixtran39]

Thank you for the replies. I am using Crostini and apparently that has issues with Docker so that seems to be why this error was happening.