Got the following error on multipass (beta channel) version 0.5:
cannot connect to the multipass socket
If you encounter the same thing, refreshing the snap to version 0.5-27-g49baef0 fixed it for me:
sudo snap refresh multipass --edge --classic
Likely related to this issue: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/multipass/issues/555
If you want to know what multipass is or how it will be used in #hypha, see https://ar.al/2019/01/05/hypha-spike-deployment-1/