Confused: why does my finch instance keep disappearing?

[rix0rrr]

Every once in a while I try to run finch vm start and I get greeted with the following error:

$ finch vm start
FATA[0000] the instance "finch" does not exist, run `finch vm init` to create a new instance

I then dutifully run finch vm init and everything is well for a while, until I get the above error again.

What is going on? What makes a finch vm disappear? If this is by design that my VM disappears on me on a weekly basis, why can't vm start automatically init one for me as well?

[swagatbora90]

Hi @rix0rrr, this is interesting. This is definitely not by design, your finch VM should exists unless you have explicitly run finch vm remove.

Are you on Windows or Mac?

[rix0rrr]

I'm on an Amazon-managed Mac.

[dreamorosi]

I'm seeing the same on the same type of hardware, I invariably have to re-initialize the finch VM every now and then. When I do that, all my containers/images are still there however.