Salt-minion service fails to start on Windows VMs following a clean installation or upgrade to version 3006.16.

Products

• VMware SaltStack

Issue/Introduction

Following an upgrade or clean installation of Salt Minion v3006.16 on Windows VM, the salt-minion service fails to initialize and generates the following exception:

C:\Program Files\Salt Project\Salt>salt-minion.exe -l debug
DEBUG   ] Override  __utils__: <module 'salt.loaded.int.grains.zfs' from 'C:\\Program Files\\Salt Project\\Salt\\Lib\\site-packages\\salt\\grains\\zfs.py'>
[ERROR   ] An un-handled exception was caught by Salt's global exception handler:
NetworkInformationException:  (0x80004005): The requested protocol has not been configured into the system, or no implementation for it exists
   at System.Net.NetworkInformation.SystemIPInterfaceProperties.GetIPv4Properties()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Salt Project\Salt\Lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,

Environment

salt-minion 3006.16

Cause

This is a known issue affecting Salt Minion version 3006.16 on Windows operating systems.
The same can be found in Salt PR https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/68355

Resolution

This issue is resolved with the version 3006.17.

Workaround 
If your Salt Master is currently running on version 3006.16, we recommend using Salt Minion 3006.15 on Windows machines as a stable workaround.