salt-minion on SLES 12 GM not starting

SUSE Manager
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Hello,

we are currently evaluation SUSE Manager 3. During the registration of our first SLES 12 GM salt minion we are running into trouble.
After adding the repository and installing salt-minion, we added the master: directive to /etc/salt/minion and an activation key to /etc/salt/grains. Everything as mentioned in the documentation. Unfortunately the minion doesn’t start.

# salt-minion -l all [DEBUG ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/minion [DEBUG ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: tesumaclient4.test.local [TRACE ] None of the required configuration sections, 'logstash_udp_handler' and 'logstash_zmq_handler', were found the in the configuration. Not loading the Logstash logging handlers module. [TRACE ] The required configuration section, 'fluent_handler', was not found the in the configuration. Not loading the fluent logging handlers module. [DEBUG ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/minion [TRACE ] Trying pysss.getgrouplist for 'root' [TRACE ] Trying generic group list for 'root' [TRACE ] Group list for user 'root': [] [INFO ] Setting up the Salt Minion "tesumaclient4.test.local" [INFO ] The Salt Minion is shut down [ERROR ] Minion failed to start [WARNING ] ** Restarting minion ** [INFO ] Sleeping random_reauth_delay of 10 seconds

The master is reachable and is working for other clients including salt and classic one’s.

# nc -zv tesuma.test.local 4505-4506 Connection to tesuma.test.local 4505 port [tcp/*] succeeded! Connection to tesuma.test.local 4506 port [tcp/*] succeeded!

The mentioned client is a fresh installed and unpatched SLES 12 GM.

Any ideas?

Thanks and regards
Tim

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Is the client fully patched ?
Which version of Python is installed ? Should be 2.7.9.

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The client is completely unpatched with Python 2.7.7. I expected SUSE Manager to do the patching job after registering the client. I’ll update to 2.7.9 and give it a try.

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That was easy :slight_smile: Thanks for your support!

Updated Python to 2.7.9 and the minion started up.
I took the current packages from our SMT server:

libpython2_7-1_0-2.7.9-14.1 python-2.7.9-14.1 python-base-2.7.9-14.1

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We thought about this in the beginning but dismissed it as a rather untypical usecase. The primary use cases of SUSE Manager are

  • boostrap a running system. Assumption: running systems are always fully patched
  • deploy a new system with SUSE Manager’s autoinstallation features. Here SUSE Manager will ensure a fully patched system.