minikube dashboard crashes unless minikube started

[afbjorklund]

The exact command to reproduce the issue:

minikube delete
minikube dashboard

The full output of the command that failed:

$ minikube dashboard
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x8 pc=0x13cee62]

[ensonic]

I just tested with 1.7.3 and it still crashes:

minikube dashboard
🔌  Enabling dashboard ...

💣  Unable to enable dashboard: running callbacks: [error creating file at /etc/kubernetes/addons/dashboard-ns.yaml: open /etc/kubernetes/addons/dashboard-ns.yaml: permission denied]

😿  minikube is exiting due to an error. If the above message is not useful, open an issue:
👉  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose

sudo minikube dashboard
🙄  "minikube" profile does not exist

[ensonic]

False alarm, we need to pass the same envvars that we gave to minikube start to minikube dashboard too (eg. MINIKUBE_HOME=$HOME CHANGE_MINIKUBE_NONE_USER=true KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/config).