diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/initd b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/initd
index 4e8f72e1b6b..658689949e3 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/initd
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/initd
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ DAEMON_USER=root
 #
 do_start()
 {
+        # Avoid a potential race at boot time when both monit and init.d start
+        # the same service
+        PIDS=$(pidof $DAEMON)
+        for PID in ${PIDS}; do
+            kill -9 $PID
+	done
+
         # Raise the file descriptor limit - we expect to open a lot of sockets!
         ulimit -n 65536
 
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/initd b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/initd
index 5af22468ada..5379c8e07d8 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/initd
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/initd
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ DAEMON_USER=root
 #
 do_start()
 {
+        # Avoid a potential race at boot time when both monit and init.d start
+        # the same service
+        PIDS=$(pidof $DAEMON)
+        for PID in ${PIDS}; do
+            kill -9 $PID
+	done
+
         # Return
         #   0 if daemon has been started
         #   1 if daemon was already running