"Instance Fails to Start and Transitions to Unknown State After Attempting to Star

[manishNeupane13]

Describe the bug
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After successfully creating and running an instance using Multipass, the instance initially starts as expected. However, after stopping the instance and attempting to start it again, the instance immediately transitions to an "unknown" state instead of the expected "running" state. This issue occurs consistently and makes the instance inaccessible despite multiple start attempts.

To Reproduce
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1. multipass ...

Expected behavior
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Logs
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Additional info

• OS: [e.g. macOS 10.15]
• multipass version
• multipass 1.15.0+mac
• multipassd 1.15.0+mac
• multipass info
• multipass get local.driver

Additional context
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[giuliazanchi]

Hi @manishNeupane13 , did you upgrade or do a fresh install? What hardware are you on (e.g. M1, M3, ...) and which version of macOS are you currently running? (e.g. Sequoia 15.2)

[manishNeupane13]

Yeah, I did upgrade, but this problem was happening even before the update. My hardware is M1, and I’m on macOS Sequoia 15.2