# Add cluster failed due to cattle-cluster-agent error

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/add-cluster-failed-due-to-cattle-cluster-agent-error/20004>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-cluster-failed-due-to-cattle-cluster-agent-error/20004 "2021-04-07T09:45:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![aracloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/aracloud/32/4461_2.png) [@aracloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/aracloud)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-cluster-failed-due-to-cattle-cluster-agent-error/20004/1 "2021-04-07T09:45:04Z")

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Hi

I have a running RKE K8s cluster (local) with a single node.  
I want to provision a new k8s cluster via GUI.  
I setup 3 nodes (ubuntu 20.04) and tried to build a cluster.

Issue:

> Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to set up sandbox container “77270689eede6e9dd760cfd3bcbd656b7f83c4644e40ffdf80ee95b1441edc11” network for pod “cattle-cluster-agent-5569cfb9-mc5zs”: networkPlugin cni failed to set up pod “cattle-cluster-agent-5569cfb9-mc5zs\_cattle-system” network: stat /var/lib/calico/nodename: no such file or directory: check that the calico/node container is running and has mounted /var/lib/calico/

Now the container creation of cattle-cluster-agent is looping…

Any clue?

Thx

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**Author:** ![aracloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/aracloud/32/4461_2.png) [@aracloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/aracloud)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/add-cluster-failed-due-to-cattle-cluster-agent-error/20004/2 "2021-04-14T13:57:34Z")

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I was running a pre-installed kubelet/kubeadm version which I needed to remove. After that it worked like a charm.