microk8s.enable dns gets stuck in ContainerCreating - microk8s

Question

I have installed microk8s snap on Ubuntu 19 in a VBox. When I run microk8s.enable dns, the pod for the deployment does not get past ContainerCreating state.
I used to work in before. I have also re-installed microk8s, this helped in the passed, but not anymore.
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Output from microk8s.kubectl get all --all-namespaces shows that something is wrong with the volume for the secrets. I don't know how I can investigate further, so any help is appreciated.
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NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system pod/coredns-9b8997588-z88lz 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 16m
NAMESPACE NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
default service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.152.183.1 <none> 443/TCP 20m
kube-system service/kube-dns ClusterIP 10.152.183.10 <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP 16m
NAMESPACE NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
kube-system deployment.apps/coredns 0/1 1 0 16m
NAMESPACE NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE
kube-system replicaset.apps/coredns-9b8997588 1 1 0 16m
Output from microk8s.kubectl describe pod/coredns-9b8997588-z88lz -n kube-system
Name: coredns-9b8997588-z88lz
Namespace: kube-system
Priority: 2000000000
Priority Class Name: system-cluster-critical
Node: peza-ubuntu-19/10.0.2.15
Start Time: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:49:27 +0200
Labels: k8s-app=kube-dns
pod-template-hash=9b8997588
Annotations: scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod:
Status: Pending
IP:
IPs: <none>
Controlled By: ReplicaSet/coredns-9b8997588
Containers:
coredns:
Container ID:
Image: coredns/coredns:1.5.0
Image ID:
Ports: 53/UDP, 53/TCP, 9153/TCP
Host Ports: 0/UDP, 0/TCP, 0/TCP
Args:
-conf
/etc/coredns/Corefile
State: Waiting
Reason: ContainerCreating
Ready: False
Restart Count: 0
Limits:
memory: 170Mi
Requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 70Mi
Liveness: http-get http://:8080/health delay=60s timeout=5s period=10s #success=1 #failure=5
Readiness: http-get http://:8181/ready delay=0s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
Environment: <none>
Mounts:
/etc/coredns from config-volume (ro)
/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from coredns-token-h6qlm (ro)
Conditions:
Type Status
Initialized True
Ready False
ContainersReady False
PodScheduled True
Volumes:
config-volume:
Type: ConfigMap (a volume populated by a ConfigMap)
Name: coredns
Optional: false
coredns-token-h6qlm:
Type: Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
SecretName: coredns-token-h6qlm
Optional: false
QoS Class: Burstable
Node-Selectors: <none>
Tolerations: CriticalAddonsOnly
node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute for 300s
node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute for 300s
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal Scheduled <unknown> default-scheduler Successfully assigned kube-system/coredns-9b8997588-z88lz to peza-ubuntu-19
Warning FailedMount 5m59s kubelet, peza-ubuntu-19 Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[coredns-token-h6qlm config-volume], unattached volumes=[coredns-token-h6qlm config-volume]: timed out waiting for the condition
Warning FailedMount 3m56s (x11 over 10m) kubelet, peza-ubuntu-19 MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "coredns-token-h6qlm" : failed to sync secret cache: timed out waiting for the condition
Warning FailedMount 3m44s (x2 over 8m16s) kubelet, peza-ubuntu-19 Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[config-volume coredns-token-h6qlm], unattached volumes=[config-volume coredns-token-h6qlm]: timed out waiting for the condition
Warning FailedMount 113s (x12 over 10m) kubelet, peza-ubuntu-19 MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "config-volume" : failed to sync configmap cache: timed out waiting for the condition

Answer 1

I spent my morning fighting with this on ubuntu 19.04. None of the microk8s add-ons worked. Their containers got stuck in "ContainerCreating" status having something like "MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "kubernetes-dashboard-token-764ml" : failed to sync secret cache: timed out waiting for the condition" in their descriptions.
I tried to start/stop/reset/reinstall microk8s a few times. Nothing worked. Once I downgraded it to the prev version the problem went away.
sudo snap install microk8s --classic --channel=1.15/stable