[en] We investigate the intrinsic consistency of the kinetic theory for hot gluons in the mean-field limit and, for that, we formulate the general kinetic equations and solve them near the equilibrium to find the dispersion relation in the order g². We also derive the equation for the equilibrium, meanfield distribution of gluons and show that this equation is not satisifed by the perturbative change of the equilibrium state of noninteracting gluons. Hence, we argue that the perturbative approximation to the equilibrium distribution of gluons is inconsistent with the kinetic equations already at the lowest, non-trivial order g². This suggests strong, non-perturbative effects at the scale ∝ gT. (orig.)