unable to start minikube on my ubuntu

[Vinayak-99010]

What Happened?

unable to start minikube on my ubuntu

Getting the below error

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ minikube start
😄 minikube v1.35.0 on Ubuntu 24.04
✨ Automatically selected the docker driver. Other choices: none, ssh
❗ docker is currently using the vfs storage driver, setting preload=false
📌 Using Docker driver with root privileges
👍 Starting "minikube" primary control-plane node in "minikube" cluster
🚜 Pulling base image v0.0.46 ...
🔥 Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=3900MB) ...

❌ Exiting due to RUNTIME_ENABLE: Failed to enable container runtime: sudo systemctl restart docker: Process exited with status 1
stdout:

stderr:
Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xeu docker.service" for details.

sudo journalctl --no-pager -u docker:
-- stdout --
May 21 08:35:26 minikube systemd[1]: Starting Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.738157758Z" level=info msg="Starting up"
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.738497194Z" level=info msg="OTEL tracing is not configured, using no-op tracer provider"
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.798574576Z" level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: invalid argument" storage-driver=overlay2
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.798627907Z" level=error msg="exec: "fuse-overlayfs": executable file not found in $PATH" storage-driver=fuse-overlayfs
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.811032386Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: start."
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.927092454Z" level=info msg="Default bridge (docker0) is assigned with an IP address 172.17.0.0/16. Daemon option --bip can be used to set a preferred IP address"
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.981160124Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: done."
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.984041359Z" level=info msg="Docker daemon" commit=c710b88 containerd-snapshotter=false storage-driver=vfs version=27.4.1
May 21 08:35:26 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:26.984811721Z" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.003605214Z" level=info msg="API listen on /run/docker.sock"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: Started Docker Application Container Engine.
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Current command vanished from the unit file, execution of the command list won't be resumed.
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: Stopping Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.912270663Z" level=info msg="Processing signal 'terminated'"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.912740137Z" level=info msg="stopping event stream following graceful shutdown" error="" module=libcontainerd namespace=moby
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[236]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.912922779Z" level=info msg="Daemon shutdown complete"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
May 21 08:35:27 minikube systemd[1]: Starting Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.944528350Z" level=info msg="Starting up"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.945228494Z" level=info msg="OTEL tracing is not configured, using no-op tracer provider"
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.960229886Z" level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: invalid argument" storage-driver=overlay2
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.960258101Z" level=error msg="exec: "fuse-overlayfs": executable file not found in $PATH" storage-driver=fuse-overlayfs
May 21 08:35:27 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:27.960390894Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: start."
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.059063847Z" level=info msg="Default bridge (docker0) is assigned with an IP address 172.17.0.0/16. Daemon option --bip can be used to set a preferred IP address"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.107867022Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: done."
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.110770926Z" level=info msg="Docker daemon" commit=c710b88 containerd-snapshotter=false storage-driver=vfs version=27.4.1
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.110799960Z" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.124193909Z" level=info msg="API listen on [::]:2376"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.124200551Z" level=info msg="API listen on /var/run/docker.sock"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Started Docker Application Container Engine.
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Stopping Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.718331873Z" level=info msg="Processing signal 'terminated'"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.718909358Z" level=info msg="stopping event stream following graceful shutdown" error="" module=libcontainerd namespace=moby
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.719090916Z" level=info msg="Daemon shutdown complete"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[728]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.719120769Z" level=info msg="stopping event stream following graceful shutdown" error="context canceled" module=libcontainerd namespace=plugins.moby
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Starting Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.777466077Z" level=info msg="Starting up"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.777876719Z" level=info msg="OTEL tracing is not configured, using no-op tracer provider"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.800778875Z" level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: invalid argument" storage-driver=overlay2
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.800806753Z" level=error msg="exec: "fuse-overlayfs": executable file not found in $PATH" storage-driver=fuse-overlayfs
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.800933545Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: start."
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.879979524Z" level=info msg="Default bridge (docker0) is assigned with an IP address 172.17.0.0/16. Daemon option --bip can be used to set a preferred IP address"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.920936387Z" level=info msg="Processing signal 'terminated'"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.929364288Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: done."
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.932317678Z" level=info msg="Docker daemon" commit=c710b88 containerd-snapshotter=false storage-driver=vfs version=27.4.1
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.932352422Z" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.945427905Z" level=info msg="API listen on /var/run/docker.sock"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.945428632Z" level=info msg="API listen on [::]:2376"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.945835544Z" level=info msg="stopping event stream following graceful shutdown" error="" module=libcontainerd namespace=moby
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1056]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.946035357Z" level=info msg="Daemon shutdown complete"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Stopped Docker Application Container Engine.
May 21 08:35:28 minikube systemd[1]: Starting Docker Application Container Engine...
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1333]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.977941223Z" level=info msg="Starting up"
May 21 08:35:28 minikube dockerd[1333]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:28.978495113Z" level=info msg="OTEL tracing is not configured, using no-op tracer provider"
May 21 08:35:29 minikube dockerd[1333]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:29.005534228Z" level=info msg="[graphdriver] trying configured driver: overlay2"
May 21 08:35:29 minikube dockerd[1333]: time="2025-05-21T08:35:29.005793581Z" level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: invalid argument" storage-driver=overlay2
May 21 08:35:29 minikube dockerd[1333]: failed to start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: driver not supported: overlay2
May 21 08:35:29 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 21 08:35:29 minikube systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 21 08:35:29 minikube systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.

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logs.txt

Operating System

Ubuntu

Driver

Docker