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UnboundLocalError triggered during the deployment of a salt minion

During a minion deployment, a UnboundLocalError is raised by the git library used as a dependency of salt

An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/state.py", line 1594, in call
    **cdata['kwargs'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/loader.py", line 1491, in wrapper
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/salt/states/git.py", line 519, in latest
    if remote_rev_type == 'sha1':
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'remote_rev_type' referenced before assignment

It is very unclear to know what happen here. Any clue?

Solution

  • This was a bug in the library. Variable remote_rev_type was not initialized in all execution paths.

    From the looks of the current salt-stack source code, I'd say it has been fixed.