| ChrisTownsend | fm2350: Yes, you can ask for help here. | 17:54 |
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| fm2350 | Thanks Chris. I'm running multipass 1.11.0+mac and upgraded my MacOS from 13.4.0 to 13.4.1. After the upgrade, "multipass list" says "No instances found." I had moved where multipass stores data as per https://multipass.run/docs/configure-multipass-storage#heading--macos , but I don't know if that made a difference; | 19:23 |
| fm2350 | /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist is still there. Any debugging tips? Cheers! | 19:23 |
| ChrisTownsend | fm2350: Do you see relevant Multipass files still in the new storage area? | 19:27 |
| ChrisTownsend | "New" being the place that you redirected Multipass to store its files. | 19:35 |
| fm2350 | I see a "cache" and "data" directories | 19:37 |
| ChrisTownsend | And under data, do you see multipassd/multipassd-vm-instances.json and if so, are there any instances defined in that file? | 19:39 |
| fm2350 | no. under data I have | 19:41 |
| fm2350 | the directories "authenticated-certscertificatesqemussh-keys" | 19:41 |
| fm2350 | (sorry about the formatting) | 19:42 |
| fm2350 | but "find . -name multipassd-vm-instances.json -print" says "./data/qemu/multipassd-vm-instances.json" | 19:43 |
| fm2350 | which does have my instances | 19:43 |
| ChrisTownsend | Ah, right, qemu. Hmm, ok, so they are defined, but multipassd is not seeing them which tells me that the environment variable is not being set. | 19:44 |
| ChrisTownsend | Ah, I think the documentation is missing something. I think it needs to be this: | 19:47 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist` | 19:47 |
| fm2350 | sudo ? | 19:47 |
| ChrisTownsend | The -w will make it load automatically on boot. | 19:48 |
| ChrisTownsend | Yes, sudo, sorry. | 19:48 |
| fm2350 | `/Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist: service already loaded | 19:48 |
| fm2350 | Load failed: 37: Operation already in progress` | 19:48 |
| ChrisTownsend | Ah, well, I could be wrong about boot since it does have the RunAtLoad key defined. | 19:49 |
| ChrisTownsend | Hrrmm, then that's not it 🙁 | 19:49 |
| fm2350 | Is there a way to see if multipass is picking up the environment variable? I looked in the logs but didn't see anything. | 19:50 |
| ChrisTownsend | No, not really. Let's try this and see if helps. | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist` | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist` | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | * No, not really. Let's try this and see if it helps. | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist` | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/setenv.MULTIPASS_STORAGE.plist` | 19:53 |
| ChrisTownsend | Could also try: | 19:55 |
| ChrisTownsend | `$ sudo /bin/launchctl getenv MULTIPASS_STORAGE` | 19:55 |
| ChrisTownsend | to see if it's set. | 19:55 |
| fm2350 | unload and load didn't return errors, but multipass list still doesn't return any instances. | 19:56 |
| fm2350 | getenv doesn't return anything !!! | 19:56 |
| ChrisTownsend | Hmm, I'm not really sure what is going on at this point. I wonder if the macOS update has affected how this works???? I'm going to have to do some research. | 19:58 |
| fm2350 | Yup... I wonder if 13.4.1 is doing something. | 19:59 |
| fm2350 | As a workaround, can I copy my "new" directory back to the default location? What files would I need to duplicate. | 20:00 |
| ChrisTownsend | The 13.4.1 security update [release notes](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213813) doesn't list anything that would *seem* to affect this, but Apple has a way of doing more than meets the eye. | 20:02 |
| fm2350 | Sorry, I'm not a Mac guy at all. Do you know if I can add logging to the plist to see if it's being picked up (which the getenv would suggest not) ? | 20:04 |
| ChrisTownsend | Not that I'm aware of. Apple really locks things down and makes it difficult to debug these types of things. | 20:05 |
| ChrisTownsend | I'm running 13.4.1 on my M1 and will try to reproduce tomorrow. | 20:06 |
| fm2350 | Thank you very much! | 20:07 |
| ChrisTownsend | You're welcome! | 20:08 |
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