an issue after Salt upgrade

[Risto Vaarandi]

hi all,

my apologies if I am asking something very obvious, since I am not a Salt expert. Recently, I upgraded an old Salt installation (3004) to 3007, and after changing one of the centrally managed files, I am no longer able to distribute it to minions.

My /etc/salt/pillar/top.sls file has the following definition:

base:
  'myhost.mydomain':
    - myhost

Also, /etc/salt/pillar/myhost.sls contains the following lines:

mysw:
  config: salt://mysw/mysw.yaml-internal

And /etc/salt/mysw.sls  contains the following lines:

Create mysw configfile:
  file.managed:
    - name: /etc/mysw/mysw.yaml
    - source: {{ pillar['mysw']['config'] }}

That configuration worked with previous version of Salt, but after modifying /etc/salt/mysw/mysw.yaml-internal today, distributing the modified file to the minion produced an error:

salt -E 'myhost' state.apply mysw

ID: Create mysw configfile

Function: file.managed
Name: /etc/mysw/mysw.yaml
Result: False
Comment: Source file salt://mysw/mysw.yaml-internal not found in saltenv 'base'
Started: 22:55:53.307314
Duration: 5.411 ms
Changes:  

Also, there are several other managed files that have not been modified, and for them no error messages are produced.

Unfortunately, I am only an occasional Salt user and it is thus fairly difficult to figure out what could be wrong here. I did google the error message above and did not get much useful information. Any ideas how to fix that problem?

kind regards,

risto

[Phipps, Thomas]

check the permissions. one change that happened between 3004 and 3006 was that the master no longer runs as root. it defaults to the salt user.

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[Aaron Greengrass]

also symlinks no longer work, if you have your formulas symlinked into your tree, they'll be ignored.  everything must either exist in the path relative to the salt root, or be bind mounted in.

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Date 2024-06-11 3:57:49 PM

Subject Re: [salt-users] an issue after Salt upgrade

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[Risto Vaarandi]

hi all,

it turned out to be a file permission issue.-- as I discovered a few hours after posting my question, only the root-user was able to access mysw.yaml-internal, and making it readable for user 'salt' fixed the problem.

kind regards,

risto