salt: Regression in pillar under 2014.1.11

This problem was initially reported (and debugged) on irc with babilen.

The problem is whereas pillar is defined (and correctly readed, without errors), pillar.items is empty. The pillar don’t work under 2014.1.11 (whereas it is ok under 2014.1.10).

The configuration is masterless, run with unpriviliged user. (My purpose is just to test salt for the moment).

Execution tests

$ salt-call --versions-report
           Salt: 2014.1.11
         Python: 2.7.8 (default, Sep 23 2014, 11:38:08)
         Jinja2: 2.7.3
       M2Crypto: 0.22
 msgpack-python: 0.4.2
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 14.3.1
            ZMQ: 4.0.4
$ salt-call pillar.get hello no-value -c /tmp/salt/etc/salt
local:
    no-value

(switching to 2014.1.10)
$ salt-call --versions-report
           Salt: 2014.1.10
         Python: 2.7.8 (default, Sep 23 2014, 11:38:08)
         Jinja2: 2.7.3
       M2Crypto: 0.22
 msgpack-python: 0.4.2
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 14.3.1
            ZMQ: 4.0.4
$ salt-call pillar.get hello no-value -c /tmp/salt/etc/salt
local:
    world

Here the salt files description:

List of files for salt:

There are based at “/tmp/salt”

$ find . -type f
./etc/salt/minion_id
./etc/salt/minion.d/masterless.conf
./etc/salt/minion.d/paths.conf
./var/salt/states/top.sls
./var/salt/states/test.sls
./var/salt/pillar/test.sls
./var/salt/pillar/top.sls

Configuration contents:

$ cat ./etc/salt/minion.d/masterless.conf
file_client: local

$ cat ./etc/salt/minion.d/paths.conf
root_dir: /tmp/salt

file_roots:
  base:
    - /tmp/salt/var/salt/states

pillar_roots:
  base:
    - /tmp/salt/var/salt/pillar

State files contents:

$ cat ./var/salt/states/top.sls
base:
  '*':
    - test

$ cat ./var/salt/states/test.sls
test:
  file.managed:
    - name: /tmp/test
    - contents: "this is just a test on {{ grains['os'] }}: hello {{ salt['pillar.get']('hello', 'no world') }}"

Pillar files contents:

$ cat ./var/salt/pillar/top.sls
base:
  '*':
    - test

$ cat ./var/salt/pillar/test.sls
hello: world

Debugging

I have bisect to the first commit which introduce that bad behaviour: 280e1fe4500d2145d16b1d92c9f4053b78863235 (but I have to comment line 21: “from salt.utils.serializers.yamlex import merge_recursive” (No module named serializers.yamlex)).

I currently look at the commit.