@J_McEvoy can you check ownership and permissions of the file ls -la $(pwd)/.kube/k3s.yaml
@malcolmlewis1 here
@J_McEvoy so not owned by your user or group… I don’t know what Ubuntu uses group wise, just do an ls -la ~/ to list your files and then set the username and group (I suspect you will need to use sudo), chown username:group /home/username/.kube/k3s.yaml and check it’s all ok, not 600:root 
@malcolmlewis1 thanks for your help with this, i hope im not taking u away from anything busy, how does this look: 
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Uploading: cert.png…
@J_McEvoy alas looks like the image did not upload?
@malcolmlewis1 hello again, yes the image failed to upload. For some reason this forum only gives u a certain amount of replies to send when your a new user so I had to wait ten hours and thought id be able to send the draft I had ready off my phone but looks like my pc screenshot didn’t work when it sent.
heres the screenshot
@J_McEvoy that looks much better 
So as long as you have exported the yaml file, you should be good to proceed.
kubectl -n cert-manager rollout status deploy/cert-manager
deployment "cert-manager" successfully rolled out
kubectl -n cert-manager rollout status deploy/cert-manager-webhook
deployment "cert-manager-webhook" successfully rolled out
kubectl create namespace cattle-system
namespace/cattle-system created
(An extra check)
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --sort-by={metadata.namespace} | sort -r
How does that all look? The last command should show pods and their STATUS running or completed… (no image necessary).
@J_McEvoy no sudo required, all the helm and kubectl commands are performed as your user, aside from the yaml file permission change/move etc.
@J_McEvoy you didn’t run the export command, every time you login to that shell it needs to be run… Run that and try again
@J_McEvoy what does kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --sort-by={metadata.namespace} | sort -r show? You might need to uninstall cert-manager and try again.
@J_McEvoy I wonder if k3s got confused with the yaml issue… want to try a k3s install again? So do that as root user, then copy the k3s.yaml file over, fix permissions etc, then export and check the status of k3s with kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --sort-by={metadata.namespace} | sort -r if they look all good, then proceed with the cert-manager install.
You should see for example;
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --sort-by={metadata.namespace} | sort -r
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system traefik-66c46d954f-7l2z6 1/1 Running 0 4m25s
kube-system svclb-traefik-2402b4ac-lltmn 2/2 Running 0 4m25s
kube-system metrics-server-5f9f776df5-9hdws 1/1 Running 0 4m44s
kube-system local-path-provisioner-79f67d76f8-nmrx5 1/1 Running 0 4m44s
kube-system helm-install-traefik-pkxqh 0/1 Completed 1 4m44s
kube-system helm-install-traefik-crd-wpfhb 0/1 Completed 0 4m44s
kube-system coredns-597584b69b-fk8xh 1/1 Running 0 4m44s
dam, got to start again this is gonna be a pain haha, thanks for sticking around, ill prob get timed out again so if i dont reply for a while u know why haha
@J_McEvoy it’s a process, no worries, just take small steps and should be all fine
