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what is the exact helm command you have?

thank you for your prompt reply! I've tried a number of times to helm install rancher in my _{_3 masters + 4 workers} local K8s cluster ... after my last helm uninstall (which I'm realizing has never been coupled with full unistall of fleet) my command was like

helm install rancher rancher-stable/rancher --create-namespace --namespace cattle-system --set tls=external --set hostname=mysslproxybalancer.mydomain.com --set bootstrapPassword=admin --set-json 'extraNodeSelectorTerms=[{ "key": "node-role.kubernetes.io/master",   "operator": "Exists"}]' --set 'service.type=NodePort' --set debug=true  --set replicas=1 --set startupProbe.timeoutSeconds=120

(only 1 replica just hoping to avoid any possibile inter-node communication issue) and the whole pod log contained the following ERROR lines

2025/02/26 14:53:41 [ERROR] failed to start cluster controllers local: context canceled
2025/02/26 14:53:41 [ERROR] Failed to find system chart fleet will try again in 5 seconds: configmaps "" not found
2025/02/26 14:53:42 [ERROR] error syncing 'fleet-local/local': handler cluster-create: server url is missing, can't generate kubeconfig for fleet import cluster, requeuing
2025/02/26 14:53:42 [ERROR] error syncing 'fleet-local/local': handler cluster-create: server url is missing, can't generate kubeconfig for fleet import cluster, requeuing
2025/02/26 14:53:42 [ERROR] error syncing 'fleet-local/local': handler cluster-create: server url is missing, can't generate kubeconfig for fleet import cluster, requeuing
2025/02/26 14:53:43 [ERROR] error syncing 'fleet-local/local': handler cluster-create: server url is missing, can't generate kubeconfig for fleet import cluster, requeuing

(where only now I'm realizing that maybe "_failed to start cluster controllers local: context canceled_" deserves more attention than any subsequent fleet-related issue) After a while (non service comes up and startup probe fails), the pod gives up:

Back-off restarting failed container rancher in pod rancher-...