Having trouble starting salt-minion service after upgrading from 3006.0 to 3006.16. Windows 2016

Products

• VMware SaltStack

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading windows salt-minion from 3006 to 3006.16 the salt-minion will not start and throws the error:

[salt._logging.impl:###][ERROR   ][###] An un-handled exception was caught by Salt's global exception handler:
NetworkInformationException:  (0x###): The requested protocol has not been configured into the system, or no implementation for it exists
   at System.Net.NetworkInformation.SystemIPInterfaceProperties.GetIPv4Properties()

Environment

salt-minion 3006.16

Resolution

There is an issue in 3006.16 backing out that version and installing 3006.15 resolves the issue.

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68355