Error with state.highstate

[Don Babb]

I'm running the following command and receive an error on one of the minions. All the other minions can run the same state.highstate without any errors. I can run other salt commands to the server with the issue and it will work. Thanks for helping.

 

Failed using state.highstate

# salt testsrv.* state.highstate
testsrv.richmond.edu:
----------
    State: - no
    Name:      states
    Function:  None
        Result:    False
        Comment:   No states found for this minion
        Changes:  

 

Worked:

# salt testsrv.* test.version
testsrv.richmond.edu: 0.10.1

 

[Thomas S Hatch]

Is this always the same minion? What does your top file look like?

[Don Babb]

I have about 25 minions and this is the only minion that I get this error. The minion is running 0.10.1

 

top.sls

base:
  'group1':
    - match: nodegroup
    - ljohnso3

master config

nodegroups:
   group1: 'L@testsrv.*,yoda.*'

 

On Friday, July 27, 2012 5:16:34 PM UTC-4, Thomas Hatch wrote:

Is this always the same minion? What does your top file look like?

[Thomas S Hatch]

I think it might have something to do with how you are matching the nodegroups. your master config should look more like this:

nodegroups:

   group1: 'testsrv.*,yoda.*'

So that it uses the glob matcher instead of the list matcher

[Don Babb]

I removed the L@ from the  group1 list and I still ran into the same issue but now it's with all the minions.

I also tried a second time by removing the match: nodegroup from the top.sls file, this didn't help.

I tried putting the L@ back to the group1 list and put the top.sls file back the orginial settings (using match: nodegroup) and it now fails on all the minions.

I removed the group settings in top.sls to bypass using groups all together and it worked for all minions, even the one server having the error before.

 

Salt Master version: 0.10.1

 

Command:

salt testsrv.* state.highstate

 

Failed Configurations

/etc/salt/master

nodegroups:

     group1: 'testsrv.*,yoda.*'

 

nodegroups:

    group1: 'L@testsrv.*,yoda.*'

 

top.sls config

base:
   'group1':

       - match: nodegroup
       - ljohnso3

 

base:
   'group1':
      - ljohnso3

Successful Config:

top.sls

base:
   '*':
     - ljohnso3

[Don Babb]

After trying serveral configuration combinations, I did find that I can't use the string wildcard (asterisk) to name the minions for group1, the documentation for node groups does show that I should be able to use the asterisk as an option and I also had to use the L@ for node groups as part of the format. Once I used the full qualified domain name and re-entered L@, it worked for all the minions,  even for the one server that was having the issue orginally.

 

nodegroups:

    group1: 'L...@testsrv.mydomain.com,yoda.mydomain.com'

 

Thank you for you help!

Don