[WARNING ] Although 'dmidecode' was found in path, the current user cannot execute it. Grains output might not be accurate.

[Zippy Zeppoli]

I am having an issue where the minion won't respond even via salt call.
I tried restarting both the minion and the master but nothing.
Tailing salt master logs shows nothing.
I tried clearing the minion cache, /var/cache/salt/* and that didn't help either.

I am running 0.10.4. I know it's old, but communication from the minion and master usually works, although spotty with this version.

I ran salt-minion in the foreground, it cannot seem to get beyond this point.

[root@local fcode]# /usr/bin/salt-minion
[WARNING ] Setting up the Salt Minion "local"
[WARNING ] Although 'dmidecode' was found in path, the current user cannot execute it. Grains output might not be accurate.


Any help is appreciated.

[Nick Davis]

Try running both master and minion in the foreground with the ' -l debug ' argument, so it will spit out debug level logs. Also if your salt configuration files are not in /etc/salt/, you should provide that argument as well.  

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[Thomas S Hatch]

Are the minion and the master both running 0.10.4? 

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[Zippy Zeppoli]

Negative, 0.10.3 minion and 0.10.4 master. :/

[Adrian Andreias]

I've seen this warning on a minion running inside an openvz vps. So it might be a OpenVZ specific issue.
Is the minion running in a VPS? On what virtualization technology/service?

[Zippy Zeppoli]

AWS EC2

[Mike Chesnut]

I don't think that warning is relevant to your issue.  I've seen it before when the minion is running as a non-root user.  But as the message says, it's just a warning--it shouldn't affect the minion's overall operation outside of grains that require dmidecode in order to be determined.

If you add "-l debug" to your foreground invocation of salt-minion, do you see it doing (or trying to do) other stuff after that message is printed?

[Pavol Cupka]

I am getting this warning on ARM, but the minions and master are still running OK.

just my 2 cents

Pavol