"No Top file or external nodes data matches found" with salt

Question

New to salt,and i add first server(wx-1),it works ,but when i add a differnt server, test.ping is ok,but when execute salt 'qing' state.highstate, it fails,the error info is:

No Top file or external nodes data matches found

Here is my top.sls:

base:
  'wx-1':
    - bin.nginx
    - git
    - web
    - mongo
    - redis
  'qing':
    - bin.nginx

qing is a new server and it's config is different to wx-1,don't know if this is ok,thanks for your help:)

Answer 1

You didn't give much information. But here are a few things to check:

• test if salt qing state.sls bin.nginx works, if not continue reading
• make sure file_roots:base in master config points to /srv/salt
• use salt-master/minion --version to check salt versions, make sure they are the same. Because different versions might diff

Give further info if you tried all the above.

Answer 2

If you make changes to your sls files. Make sure that you restart the master in order for it to update. This solved my problem when receiving the same error...