<p>Hello so i was using yesterday minikube and it was working fine but today i was trying to start with <strong>minikube start</strong> command and it give the following errors :<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/z3dw6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/z3dw6.png" alt="minikube start" /></a></p>
<p>and after running <strong>minikube status</strong> it give the following result :<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/og4P5.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/og4P5.png" alt="minikube status" /></a></p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any help.</p>

<p>You are getting the following error:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Exiting due to GUEST_START: Failed kubeconfig update: could not read config: Error decoding config from data control character are not allowed</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and</p>
<blockquote>
<p>getting k8s client: client config: error loading config file &quot;C:\Users&lt;Your User&gt;/.kube/config control characters are not allowed</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Those errors indicates that your <code>$KUBECONFIG</code> has an invalid character in it.</p>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
<p>For the future use, please provide more detailed information. It's well described in <a href="https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/troubleshooting/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Minikube Troubleshooting</a>. The following commands might provide useful information for troubleshooting:</p>
<pre><code>$ minikube logs
$ minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=2
$ kubectl config view
</code></pre>
<p>In minikube output there is also <code>updating the running virtualbox &quot;minikube&quot; VM</code> It might be related with network changes.</p>
<h3>Possible Solution</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove config file from <code>C:\Users\&lt;Your User&gt;/.kube/</code> and start minikube again.</li>
<li>Update your <code>Minikube</code> to newest version (current is 1.16).</li>
<li>Recreate your minikube cluster using <a href="https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/commands/delete/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">minikube delete</a> and create new one.</li>
<li>Execite <code>minikube update context</code>.</li>
</ul>
