diff --git a/config/chroot_local-hooks/50cnas-cherrypy-fix.sh b/config/chroot_local-hooks/50cnas-cherrypy-fix.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b43d850
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/chroot_local-hooks/50cnas-cherrypy-fix.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+#  License:  This script is distributed under the terms of version 2
+#            of the GNU GPL. See the LICENSE file included with the package.
+#
+# $Id:  $
+#
+# this script is part of the build process of CryptoNAS
+#
+# 2008-11-27 James Crofts backported workaround from CherryPy src repository.
+# See http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/686 and
+# http://devel.cryptobox.org/ticket/216.
+#
+
+## Stop the build process if any of the following steps fail
+set -e
+
+##Hack to prevent intermittent cherrypy crashes at startup
+DIFF="/usr/share/cryptonas-live/_cpwsgiserver.py.diff"
+##These two files are identical before the patch and must be identical
+##afterward as well:
+patch /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/cherrypy/_cpwsgiserver.py < ${DIFF}
+patch /usr/share/python-support/python-cherrypy/cherrypy/_cpwsgiserver.py < ${DIFF}
+##Remove the now-obsolete "compiled" Python file.
+rm -f /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/cherrypy/_cpwsgiserver.pyc
diff --git a/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/cryptonas-live/_cpwsgiserver.py.diff b/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/cryptonas-live/_cpwsgiserver.py.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78d79c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/cryptonas-live/_cpwsgiserver.py.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- chroot/usr/share/python-support/python-cherrypy/cherrypy/_cpwsgiserver.py	2006-04-24 18:37:45.000000000 -0700
++++ chroot/usr/share/cryptonas-live/_cpwsgiserver-copy.py	2008-11-27 22:53:49.000000000 -0700
+@@ -200,10 +200,17 @@
+                             response = request.wsgi_app(request.environ,
+                                                         request.start_response)
+                             for line in response:
+                                 request.write(line)
+                     except socket.error, e:
++			msg = e.args[1]
++			if msg == "Bad file descriptor":
++				# Our socket was closed
++				return
++			if msg == "Resource temporarily unavailable":
++				# Just try again. See http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/479.
++				return
+                         errno = e.args[0]
+                         if errno not in socket_errors_to_ignore:
+                             traceback.print_exc()
+                     except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit), exc:
+                         self.server.interrupt = exc
diff --git a/config/chroot_local-packageslists/cryptonas b/config/chroot_local-packageslists/cryptonas
index 2123daf..22c0d8d 100644
--- a/config/chroot_local-packageslists/cryptonas
+++ b/config/chroot_local-packageslists/cryptonas
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ e2fsprogs
 xfsprogs
 hfsutils
 jfsutils
+## required for fix to Defect #216 "Intermittent Python crashes at startup":
+patch
+
 ## For better version management and development flexibility, "cryptobox-server" is
 ## now installed as a local package from "config/chroot_local-packages".
 #cryptobox-server