I am running on Centos 5.6
Here are the results of the logging
2013-04-01 09:11:42,688 [salt.minion ][INFO ] User root Executing command state.show_highstate with jid 20130401091142677587
2013-04-01 09:11:42,689 [salt.minion ][DEBUG ] Command details {'tgt_type': 'glob', 'jid': '20130401091142677587', 'tgt': 'stgweb02*', 'ret': '', 'user': 'root', 'arg': [], 'fun': 'state.show_highstate'}
2013-04-01 09:11:42,727 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
2013-04-01 09:11:42,900 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Decrypting the current master AES key
2013-04-01 09:11:42,900 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
2013-04-01 09:11:43,301 [salt.loader ][DEBUG ] loading grain in ['/var/cache/salt/minion/extmods/grains', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/grains']
2013-04-01 09:11:43,302 [salt.loader ][DEBUG ] Skipping /var/cache/salt/minion/extmods/grains, it is not a directory
2013-04-01 09:11:43,423 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
2013-04-01 09:11:43,633 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Decrypting the current master AES key
2013-04-01 09:11:43,634 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
2013-04-01 09:11:44,003 [salt.crypt ][DEBUG ] Loaded minion key: /etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem
2013-04-01 09:11:44,088 [salt.state ][INFO ] Loading fresh modules for state activity
2013-04-01 09:11:44,088 [salt.loader ][DEBUG ] loading module in ['/var/cache/salt/minion/extmods/modules', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/modules']
2013-04-01 09:11:44,089 [salt.loader ][DEBUG ] Skipping /var/cache/salt/minion/extmods/modules, it is not a directory
2013-04-01 09:11:52,969 [salt.minion ][INFO ] User root Executing command saltutil.find_job with jid 20130401091152958328
2013-04-01 09:11:52,970 [salt.minion ][DEBUG ] Command details {'tgt_type': 'glob', 'jid': '20130401091152958328', 'tgt': 'stgweb02*', 'ret': '', 'user': 'root', 'arg': ['20130401091142677587'], 'fun': 'saltutil.find_job'}
2013-04-01 09:11:52,980 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod ][INFO ] Executing command 'ps -efH' in directory '/root'
2013-04-01 09:11:53,003 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod ][DEBUG ] output: UID
Doing the dmesg grep I get a bunch of messages that look like this
salt-minion[18964] general protection rip:2aaab000e7dd rsp:7ffffb0a7d10 error:0
I have had a few people suggest that I need to update my zmq version, and I have tried but the packages for centos are nearly non-existant for a newer pyzmq on centos, and building it myself has not been working very well for me.