Invalid keyword 'str' for variable 'master_type'

[mikepietruszka]

Hello,

I'm getting the following error when master_type: str is set in /etc/salt/minion:

2015-08-13 11:55:09,537 [salt.cli.daemons ][INFO    ][2349] Setting up the Salt Minion "hostname"
2015-08-13 11:55:09,650 [salt.cli.daemons                         ][INFO    ][2349] The salt minion is shut down
2015-08-13 11:55:09,652 [salt.cli.daemons                         ][INFO    ][2355] The salt minion is shut down
2015-08-13 11:55:09,865 [salt.minion                              ][ERROR   ][2357] Invalid keyword 'str' for variable 'master_type'
2015-08-13 11:55:09,866 [salt.cli.daemons                         ][INFO    ][2357] The salt minion is shut down

This seems to happen after running bootstrap_salt.sh as well as when manually editing the minion config file. Setting master_type: failover appears to finally start the salt-minion daemon.

$ salt-minion --versions-report
           Salt: 2015.5.3
         Python: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jul 23 2015, 15:22:56)
         Jinja2: unknown
       M2Crypto: 0.20.2
 msgpack-python: 0.4.6
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.0.1
        libnacl: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.10
          ioflo: Not Installed
          PyZMQ: 14.3.1
           RAET: Not Installed
            ZMQ: 3.2.5
           Mako: Not Installed
        Tornado: Not Installed

[mikepietruszka]

Seems like this was fixed in #25704 and #25703

[rallytime]

@maschinetheist - You are correct that this is a duplicate and has been fixed. We're working on getting a release out with this fix very soon. Thanks very much for filing this and following up!