Fixing the «timed out waiting for the condition» error when mounting a PVC
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Updated at September 12, 2023
Issue description
When mounting a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) to the Managed Service for Kubernetes cluster, you see the following error in your Kubelet output and service logs:
Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[<PVC_NAME>],
unattached volumes=[conf kube-api-access-r9rql data]: timed out waiting for the condition
Solution
Restart the VM running the cluster's worker node hosting the pod with the problem storage.
Be sure to run a cold restart, shutting down the VM. This restarts the QEMU process on the hypervisor with a new ID.
For a cold VM restart, use the Stop button, wait for the Stopped status, then start the VM from the Compute Cloud management console or YC CLI.