Rancher 1.0.1 + k8s: Unexpected Token U doing anything

I set up a 3 node cluster, and then created a kubernetes environment. Creating the environment worked well,
and i can successfully do kubectl:

> kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"1", GitVersion:"v1.1.7", GitCommit:"e4e6878293a339e4087dae684647c9e53f1cf
9f0", GitTreeState:"clean"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"2+", GitVersion:"v1.2.0-rancher-1", GitCommit:"ed6532f975cff184196dbe214d
e8fa0198b415ef", GitTreeState:"clean"}

The problem I’m having is that any attempt to create a namespace, service, pod, or anything, I get this error:

“Unexpected token u”

This happens even when i use the “Manage environments” to create a new namespace:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: "dave-ns"
spec:
  finalizers:

Or in fact any service, pod, or rc defintion.

It is also worth mentioning that it takes a long time to come back when I click save-- like 30 seconds.

Looking at all of my containers, the only unusual thing I see is that the two kubelet containers appear to be constantly restarting. Here are the log entries from one of the containers:

4/15/2016 4:15:47 PMtime="2016-04-15T20:15:47Z" level=info msg="Execing [/usr/bin/nsenter --mount=/proc/108506/ns/mnt -F -- /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/eea77d0fd90e1820b71c2dda147ff8633234310ac87b040a83e7e8424854754b/rootfs/usr/bin/share-mnt --stage2 /var/lib/kubelet /sys -- kubelet --api_servers=http://master --allow-privileged=true --register-node=true --cloud-provider=rancher --healthz-bind-address=0.0.0.0 --cluster-dns=169.254.169.250 --cluster-domain=cluster.local]"
4/15/2016 4:15:48 PMW0415 20:15:48.819061   37546 server.go:445] Could not load kubeconfig file /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig: stat /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig: no such file or directory. Trying auth path instead.
4/15/2016 4:15:48 PMW0415 20:15:48.819148   37546 server.go:406] Could not load kubernetes auth path /var/lib/kubelet/kubernetes_auth: stat /var/lib/kubelet/kubernetes_auth: no such file or directory. Continuing with defaults.
4/15/2016 4:15:58 PMcould not init cloud provider "rancher": Could not create rancher client: &url.Error{Op:"Get", URL:"http://csc-docker-3.colinx.com:8080/v1", Err:(*errors.errorString)(0xc2080a1d20)}

I checked that the cluster ur http://csc-docker-3.colinx.com/v1 can be reached from both nodes.

In previous rancher installations, I had problems with access control enabled, so just be sure, i re-started this cluster completely fresh, and didnt even enable access control this time.

What’s wrong?