kubeadm upgrade apply - stuck

Hi,

I bumped in to the same issue and it seems to be a bug reported here as well Kubeadm Issue# 2035

Jus to highlight, i am updating from v.18.8 to v1.19.0, also reconciled with https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/setup-tools/kubeadm/kubeadm-upgrade/ but error is persisting.

baqai@ckan01:~/k8ssetup$ sudo kubeadm upgrade apply v1.19.0
[upgrade/config] Making sure the configuration is correct:
[upgrade/config] Reading configuration from the cluster...
[upgrade/config] FYI: You can look at this config file with 'kubectl -n kube-system get cm kubeadm-config -oyaml'
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks.
[upgrade] Running cluster health checks
[upgrade/version] You have chosen to change the cluster version to "v1.19.0"
[upgrade/versions] Cluster version: v1.19.7
[upgrade/versions] kubeadm version: v1.19.7
[upgrade/confirm] Are you sure you want to proceed with the upgrade? [y/N]: y
[upgrade/prepull] Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster
[upgrade/prepull] This might take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection
[upgrade/prepull] You can also perform this action in beforehand using 'kubeadm config images pull'
[upgrade/apply] Upgrading your Static Pod-hosted control plane to version "v1.19.0"...
Static pod: kube-apiserver-ckan01 hash: a9e702f54ca7ad08e4f0aad39aedabc7
Static pod: kube-controller-manager-ckan01 hash: c5e60c4d599740592efddb382b4c673d
Static pod: kube-scheduler-ckan01 hash: 3167cdaddf6f15b096f2eb409185adc5
[upgrade/etcd] Upgrading to TLS for etcd
[upgrade/etcd] Non fatal issue encountered during upgrade: the desired etcd version "3.4.13-0" is not newer than the currently installed "3.4.13-0". Skipping etcd upgrade
[upgrade/staticpods] Writing new Static Pod manifests to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-upgraded-manifests053835124"
[upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-apiserver" upgrade
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver-kubelet-client certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing front-proxy-client certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing apiserver-etcd-client certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-01-23-10-19-02/kube-apiserver.yaml"
[upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component
[upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s)
Static pod: kube-apiserver-ckan01 hash: a9e702f54ca7ad08e4f0aad39aedabc7
Static pod: kube-apiserver-ckan01 hash: 98610ddf262474b522fe96193a20c293
[apiclient] Found 1 Pods for label selector component=kube-apiserver
[upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-apiserver" upgraded successfully!
[upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-controller-manager" upgrade
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing controller-manager.conf certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-controller-manager.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-01-23-10-19-02/kube-controller-manager.yaml"
[upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component
[upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s)
Static pod: kube-controller-manager-ckan01 hash: c5e60c4d599740592efddb382b4c673d
Static pod: kube-controller-manager-ckan01 hash: ead3b8933eb874ce423dbc0be136df58
[apiclient] Found 1 Pods for label selector component=kube-controller-manager
[upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-controller-manager" upgraded successfully!
[upgrade/staticpods] Preparing for "kube-scheduler" upgrade
[upgrade/staticpods] Renewing scheduler.conf certificate
[upgrade/staticpods] Moved new manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml" and backed up old manifest to "/etc/kubernetes/tmp/kubeadm-backup-manifests-2021-01-23-10-19-02/kube-scheduler.yaml"
[upgrade/staticpods] Waiting for the kubelet to restart the component
[upgrade/staticpods] This might take a minute or longer depending on the component/version gap (timeout 5m0s)
Static pod: kube-scheduler-ckan01 hash: 3167cdaddf6f15b096f2eb409185adc5
Static pod: kube-scheduler-ckan01 hash: 23d2ea3ba1efa3e09e8932161a572387
[apiclient] Found 1 Pods for label selector component=kube-scheduler
[upgrade/staticpods] Component "kube-scheduler" upgraded successfully!
[upload-config] Storing the configuration used in ConfigMap "kubeadm-config" in the "kube-system" Namespace
[kubelet] Creating a ConfigMap "kubelet-config-1.19" in namespace kube-system with the configuration for the kubelets in the cluster
[kubelet-start] Writing kubelet configuration to file "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml"
[bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow Node Bootstrap tokens to get nodes
[bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow Node Bootstrap tokens to post CSRs in order for nodes to get long term certificate credentials
[bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow the csrapprover controller automatically approve CSRs from a Node Bootstrap Token
[bootstrap-token] configured RBAC rules to allow certificate rotation for all node client certificates in the cluster
[addons] Applied essential addon: CoreDNS

Also performed the following steps:

• Deleted calico-kube-controllers deployment
• Deleted coredns and re-enable the add on by issuing following command:

aqai@ckan01:~/k8ssetup$ sudo kubeadm init phase addon coredns --config kubeadm-config.yaml
W0123 10:09:38.823436   14857 configset.go:348] WARNING: kubeadm cannot validate component configs for API groups [kubelet.config.k8s.io kubeproxy.config.k8s.io]
[addons] Applied essential addon: CoreDNS       

Details of the Environment
Operating System:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

kubeadm Version:

baqai@ckan01:~$ kubeadm version
kubeadm version: &version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"19", GitVersion:"v1.19.7", GitCommit:"1dd5338295409edcfff11505e7bb246f0d325d15", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-01-13T13:21:39Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

kubectl version:

baqai@ckan01:~$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.15", GitCommit:"73dd5c840662bb066a146d0871216333181f4b64", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-01-13T13:22:41Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"19", GitVersion:"v1.19.0", GitCommit:"e19964183377d0ec2052d1f1fa930c4d7575bd50", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-08-26T14:23:04Z", GoVersion:"go1.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

Appreciate some help