[Solved] dial unix .lima/colima/ha.sock: connect: connection refused

 Error:-

I have been using colima instead of the docker desktop for some time. Recently while starting colima got the following error

errors inspecting instance: [failed to get Info from "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/ha.sock": Get "http://lima-hostagent/v1/info": dial unix /Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/ha.sock: connect: connection refused]

Cause:-

The issue is caused due to the older sock file and colima not able to read from it properly.

Solution :-

To resolve the issue go ahead and stop the colima using limactl and than start again and check status

1. Stop the colima using limactl

ankitmittal@ip-172-168-2-151 ~ % limactl stop -f colima
INFO[0000] The qemu driver process seems already stopped
INFO[0000] Sending SIGKILL to the host agent process 1082
ERRO[0000] operation not permitted
INFO[0000] Removing /Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima under "*.pid *.sock *.tmp"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/ga.sock"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/ha.pid"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/qmp.sock"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/serial.sock"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/serialp.sock"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/serialv.sock"
INFO[0000] Removing "/Users/ankitmittal/.lima/colima/ssh.sock"

2. Start the colima

ankitmittal@ip-172-168-2-151 ~ % colima start
INFO[0000] starting colima
INFO[0000] runtime: docker
INFO[0000] preparing network ...                         context=vm
INFO[0001] starting ...                                  context=vm
INFO[0038] provisioning ...                              context=docker
INFO[0038] starting ...                                  context=docker
INFO[0044] done

3. Check the status of the colima, it should be up and running now

ankitmittal@ip-172-168-2-151 ~ % colima status
INFO[0000] colima is running using QEMU
INFO[0000] arch: aarch64
INFO[0000] runtime: docker
INFO[0000] mountType: sshfs
INFO[0000] socket: unix:///Users/ankitmittal/.colima/default/docker.sock
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