Description of problem: When I try to start the kube-apiserver with the following configuration it fails to start with: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kubernetes-master-1.5.3-1.fc26.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot a FA26 host, I used : https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/atomic/stable/Fedora-Atomic-26-20170707.1/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Atomic-26-20170707.1.x86_64.qcow2 2. sudo su . /etc/kubernetes/config . /etc/kubernetes/apiserver kube-apiserver \ $KUBE_LOGTOSTDERR \ $KUBE_LOG_LEVEL \ $KUBE_ETCD_SERVERS \ $KUBE_API_ADDRESS \ $KUBE_API_PORT \ $KUBELET_PORT \ $KUBE_ALLOW_PRIV \ $KUBE_SERVICE_ADDRESSES \ $KUBE_ADMISSION_CONTROL \ $KUBE_API_ARGS Actual results: I0719 13:56:00.604299 3496 config.go:527] Will report 137.138.120.12 as public IP address. E0719 13:56:00.606254 3496 server.go:254] Failed to create clientset: parse 127.0.0.1:8080: first path segment in URL cannot contain colon panic: parse 127.0.0.1:8080: first path segment in URL cannot contain colon goroutine 1 [running]: k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/clientset_generated/internalclientset/typed/core/internalversion.NewForConfigOrDie(0xc42071e1a0, 0xc4206c6d90) /builddir/build/BUILD/kubernetes-029c3a408176b55c30846f0faedf56aae5992e9b/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/local/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/clientset_generated/internalclientset/typed/core/internalversion/core_client.go:132 +0x62 k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/master.(*Config).Complete(0xc4206c7d18, 0x0) /builddir/build/BUILD/kubernetes-029c3a408176b55c30846f0faedf56aae5992e9b/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/local/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/master/master.go:180 +0x40a k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-apiserver/app.Run(0xc42015bb80, 0x2bc9f48, 0x5f5a5a0) /builddir/build/BUILD/kubernetes-029c3a408176b55c30846f0faedf56aae5992e9b/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/local/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/server.go:347 +0x1e8d main.main() /builddir/build/BUILD/kubernetes-029c3a408176b55c30846f0faedf56aae5992e9b/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/local/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kube-apiserver/apiserver.go:50 +0xd8
Since 1.6.7 will be released next week, I'm not sure if this is still important
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1441218 ***