Helm list tries to connect to localhost rather than Kubernetes - kubernetes

Question

I have a Kubernetes cluster running. All pods are running. This is a windows machine with minikube on it.
However helm ls --debug gives following error
helm ls --debug
[debug] Created tunnel using local port: '57209'
[debug] SERVER: "127.0.0.1:57209"
Error: Get http://localhost:8080/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?labelSelector=OWNER%!D(MISSING)TILLER: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8080: connect: connection refused
Cluster information
kubectl.exe cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://135.250.128.98:8443
To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.
kubectl service
kubectl.exe get svc
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 3h
Dashboard is accessible at http://135.250.128.98:30000
kube configuration:
apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
certificate-authority: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\ca.crt
server: https://135.250.128.98:8443
name: minikube
contexts:
- context:
cluster: minikube
user: minikube
name: minikube
current-context: minikube
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: minikube
user:
as-user-extra: {}
client-certificate: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\client.crt
client-key: C:\Users\abc\.minikube\client.key
Is there a solution? Most online resource says cluster is misconfigured. But not sure what is misconfigured and how to solve this error?

Answer 1

What worked for me when I was facing the same issue was changing automountServiceAccountToken to true.
Use the following command to edit the tiller-deploy
kubectl --namespace=kube-system edit deployment/tiller-deploy
And change automountServiceAccountToken to true

Answer 2

I've faced that problem and found an explanation on GitHub.
In this case, the preferable method to make it work is to rebuild the docker container with missing environment variable. These lines should build a new image:
cat << eof > Dockerfile
FROM gcr.io/kubernetes-helm/tiller:v2.3.1
ENV KUBERNETES_MASTER XX.XX.XX.XX:8080
eof
docker build -t tiller:latest .
Please substitute XX.XX.XX.XX with your Kubernetes Master IP address.