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Salt minions intermittently stop responding to the master

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Salt minions intermittently stop responding to the master: Upgrade all minions to 3007.0 and keep master and minions on matching recent releases; mixed-version fleets are where the flakiness shows up.

Upgrade all minions to 3007.0 and keep master and minions on matching recent releases; mixed-version fleets are where the flakiness shows up. Drop any minion restart cron jobs once the fleet is uniform and watch stability over several days. If some minions still fail to return in time, investigate those hosts individually rather than assuming fleet-wide flakiness.

Context: GitHub issue saltstack/salt#65265 (closed): some minions out of about 30 stop responding after a while, with test.ping returning Minion did not return. A commenter confirmed the resolution: getting all minions onto 3007.0 stabilized them for days, allowing removal of the restart cron jobs they had been using as a band-aid.

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Source: Published skill Original query: "Salt minions intermittently stop responding to the master" Key terms: intermittently, master, minions, responding, salt, stop

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Published recentlyPublished Oct 2, 2026. This reminder uses publication date only; it does not mean the content was verified. Review again after Mar 31, 2027.

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