Cannot start salt-minion service in Windows

[Jola]

When trying to start the minion on a couple of Windows hosts, I get the following message error:

"Windows could not start the salt-minion on 'hostname'. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 3."

Looking at the Event Log, I was unable to find anything useful.

Any idea?

Thanks
J

[David Boucha]

You might need to install the VisualStudio redistributable.  Have you tried that yet?

vc_redist

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[Jola]

I just installed Visual VisualStudio redistributable 2005 and then 2010 but I still cannot start the service...

[Jola]

What version do you recommend?

[David Boucha]

Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable

It has to match the version that Python was compiled with.

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[David Boucha]

You can try running the minion in a terminal window. That might give you a better idea of what's happening.

Open a cmd terminal by right clicking on cmd and clicking on "run as Administrator"

then run:

cd \salt

salt-minion -l debug -c c:\salt\conf

[Jola]

Yep - it works now after installing

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

thanks!

[David Boucha]

Ah, great!