Unable to open a shell on cluster's nodes

[JulesPichon84]

Describe the bug

When I try to open a shell on one of the nodes in my cluster, the shell cannot connect to the node even though I am able to execute kubectl commands with --kubeconfig passed in the command (on my local machine).

Expected behavior

I can open a shell on a node

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Lens Version: 2025.2.141554-latest
• OS: ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server

Thank you for your response !

[Tixon123]

Hello @JulesPichon84,

Thank you for reaching out to Lens support!

Thank you for reporting a bug.

We are working on your issue. Stand by for further updates.

Best Regards,
Tikhon Kudinov
Lens Support Engineer
Mirantis, Inc

[panuhorsmalahti]

In Preferences -> Proxy -> Bypass Lens Internal KubeApi Proxy enabled?

[jicowan]

I am experiencing a similar issue. Initiating a node shell from the console hangs with Connecting... then finally says, Error occurred: Pod creation timed outfailed to open a node shell: failed to create node pod. If I look at the pods I can see that it started the node-shell pod on the host and if I exec into the pod, I can access the host. I am running Lens 2025.2.141554-latest. I do not have a proxy configured and I haven't needed one.