LFS258 - cp and worker nodes in "NotReady" / Unable to connect with API Server.

student@cp:~$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
cp NotReady control-plane 123d v1.34.1
worker NotReady 122d v1.34.1
student@cp:~$

cilium-operator not terminating, remains pending ... coredns Pending ....

student@cp:~$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system cilium-cl9hw 1/1 Terminating 0 122d
kube-system cilium-envoy-qpzz4 1/1 Running 0 122d
kube-system cilium-envoy-rml6q 1/1 Running 0 123d
kube-system cilium-f5gj5 1/1 Terminating 0 123d
kube-system cilium-operator-5bc8769866-8gd5v 0/1 Terminating 0 27m
kube-system cilium-operator-698c9d76d8-zbw67 0/1 Pending 0 26m
kube-system cilium-operator-74c57d79bd-c9mjx 0/1 Pending 0 8m39s
kube-system cilium-operator-74c57d79bd-v64n2 0/1 Pending 0 8m39s
kube-system coredns-66bc5c9577-8pxjv 0/1 Pending 0 5d2h
kube-system coredns-66bc5c9577-zl7pb 0/1 Pending 0 5d2h
kube-system etcd-cp 1/1 Running 1 (118d ago) 118d
kube-system kube-apiserver-cp 1/1 Running 1 (118d ago) 118d
kube-system kube-controller-manager-cp 1/1 Running 0 118d
kube-system kube-proxy-898dk 1/1 Running 0 118d
kube-system kube-proxy-9h87p 1/1 Running 0 118d
kube-system kube-scheduler-cp 1/1 Running 0 118d
kube-system metrics-server-799f7ccf68-8fmsg 1/1 Terminating 0 55d
kube-system metrics-server-799f7ccf68-c9n7v 0/1 Pending 0 7d
student@cp:~$

Output from kubelet :

kubelet.service - kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d
└─10-kubeadm.conf
Active: active (running) since Tue 2026-07-14 19:25:01 UTC; 1h 39min ago
Docs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/
Main PID: 327828 (kubelet)
Tasks: 13 (limit: 9429)
Memory: 36.7M (peak: 37.2M)
CPU: 2min 58.514s
CGroup: /system.slice/kubelet.service
└─327828 /usr/bin/kubelet --bootstrap-kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/bootstrap-kubelet.conf --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf --config=/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml --pod-infra-container-image=registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10

Jul 14 21:04:21 cp.us-west2-a.c.orbital-cistern-281415.internal kubelet[327828]: E0714 21:04:21.236648 327828 reconstruct.go:189] "Failed to get Node status to reconstruct device paths" err="nodes \"cp.us-west2-a.c.orbital-cistern-281415.internal\" is forbidden: User \"system:node:cp\" cannot get resource \"nodes\" in API group \"\" at the cluster scope: node 'cp' cannot read 'cp.us-west2-a.c.orbital-cistern-281415.internal', only its own Node object"