minikube not stating

[sk911300]

What Happened?

i installed minikube on installed by today and during the startup getting below mentioned error.
[root@master ~]# minikube start --driver=none

• minikube v1.34.0 on Centos 7.9.2009
• Using the none driver based on existing profile
• Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
• Restarting existing none bare metal machine for "minikube" ...
• OS release is CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

X Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to start container runtime: Temporary Error: sudo /usr/bin/crictl version: exit status 1
stdout:

stderr:
time="2025-01-01T18:41:13+05:30" level=fatal msg="validate service connection: validate CRI v1 runtime API for endpoint "unix:///var/run/cri-dockerd.sock": rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing: dial unix /var/run/cri-dockerd.sock: connect: connection refused""

Attach the log file

[root@master ~]# minikube start --driver=none

• minikube v1.34.0 on Centos 7.9.2009
• Using the none driver based on existing profile
• Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
• Restarting existing none bare metal machine for "minikube" ...
• OS release is CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

X Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to start container runtime: Temporary Error: sudo /usr/bin/crictl version: exit status 1
stdout:

stderr:
time="2025-01-01T18:41:13+05:30" level=fatal msg="validate service connection: validate CRI v1 runtime API for endpoint "unix:///var/run/cri-dockerd.sock": rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing: dial unix /var/run/cri-dockerd.sock: connect: connection refused""

Operating System

Redhat/Fedora

Driver

Docker