Unable to run kubectx with short name (kctx) on Mac about kubectx HOT 7 CLOSED

Sounds like kctx is actually something else. Can you run “which kctx” to verify?

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Tried on a different mac without using short names

error: converting  to : type names don't match (Unknown, RawExtension), and no conversion 'func (runtime.Unknown, runtime.RawExtension) error' registered.
$ which kubectx
/usr/local/bin/kubectx```

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looks like this is coming from kubernetes. found a similar issue here. kubernetes/minikube#1618

I'm suspecting that this is an issue on your computer. Are you able to run kubectl get pods or kubectl version fine?

please run DEBUG=1 kctx and print the output here.

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I am able to run kubectl version and kubectl get pods. Here's the DEBUG output

+ IFS='
	'
+ KUBECTX=/Users/nsrinivasan/.kube/kubectx
+ main
+ [[ 0 -eq 0 ]]
+ list_contexts
+ set -u pipefail
+ local cur
++ current_context
++ kubectl config view '-o=jsonpath={.current-context}'
error: converting  to : type names don't match (Unknown, RawExtension), and no conversion 'func (runtime.Unknown, runtime.RawExtension) error' registered.
+ cur=```

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Clearly the issue is in your kubectl config view '-o=jsonpath={.current-context}' command. If you installed it with kubectx , it would still fail.

1. Run kubectl config view '-o=jsonpath={.current-context}' directly and tell me if it fails with that error.
2. Please paste the output of kubectl config view by redacting IPs and passwords etc (I'm interested in seeing if there's a current-context field.

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I am able to run `kubectl config view '-o=jsonpath={.current-context}'

I realized I have an alias for kubectl , we have a custom binary used in our company which is packaged with kubectl. In my ~/.bashrc my alias is alias kubectl = tess kubectl. As this a unique use case . I'll try to figure out how to make it work for our use case.

We can close this issue.

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Figured out a work around by creating a fake executable under /usr/local/bin

~/./tess kubectl  "$@"

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