Issues
mapping values are not allowed here
Check the YAML file for a missing ::
e.g. ssh.set_auth_key_from_file should have a colon appended…
Minion/Master public key does not match
The Salt Master server's public key did not authenticate!
The message will tell you where the master key is located e.g:
The master public key can be found at:
/etc/salt/pki/minion_master.pub
rm /etc/salt/pki/minion_master.pub
start salt-minion
None issues in template variables
When passing None to a template e.g:
{% set option = pillar.get('option', None) %}
/etc/cron.d/{{ site }}:
file:
- context:
option: {{ option }}
The variable will be set to the string None. If you do a test on the
variable in the template e.g. {% if option %}, then None will be
evaluated as True which is not what we want.
To solve this issue, set the variable to False if it doesn’t exist e.g:
{% set option = pillar.get('option', False) %}
e.g. https://github.com/pkimber/salt/commit/f0c9dde501cfcbe7f4e9f48dc82e8061b8b16876
Pillar failed to render
Had an issue where the parse error, expected <block end>, but found
'<scalar>' was complaining about a line which I removed from the file. To
solve the issue, I refreshed the pillar:
salt '*' saltutil.refresh_pillar
Undefined jinja variable
This issue affects Salt version 0.17.1. Both the master and the minion need to be updated to solve the issue.
Need to replace the following file with the new version:
/usr/share/pyshared/salt/utils/jinja.py
Note
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/utils/jinja.py
is a symbolic link to
/usr/share/pyshared/salt/utils/jinja.py
To fix, copy the new jinja.py onto your master and minion:
cd ~/repo/temp/
cp /usr/share/pyshared/salt/utils/jinja.py jinja.py.orig
wget https://raw.github.com/johnnoone/salt/1309ef98877b80990acba0a386bbe555882c4649/salt/utils/jinja.py
cp ~/repo/temp/jinja.py /usr/share/pyshared/salt/utils/jinja.py
Restart the master and the minion… and you should be able to get Salt version 0.17.1 working.