Sorry, I sneezed and sent the mail before completing by mistake... Here the full one. Good Morning, Can you please assist me with two questions whilst I am trying to get familiar with the salt minions/registration? (Background: AlmaLinux 8 Uyuni Server 2021.12 / CentOS7 client) 1. Bootstrapping the CentOS7 client manually does work. It took me a long time to accept the key on the master (multitasking/dinner). The minion tried to contact the server a few times but then not anymore (it seems). I had to manually restart "venv-salt-minion.service" on the client. Is this the expected behavior? 2. Failed to apply state(s): highstate I have quite some errors when applying the initial state to the minion. Are these error messages from the server or from the client? ---------- ID: mgrchannels_susemanagerplugin_dnf Function: file.managed Name: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/susemanagerplugin.py Result: false Comment: Parent directory not present Started: 09:43:49.047068 Duration: 40.854 SLS: channels Changed: {} ---------- CentOS 7 does not have any Python 3.9 (nor does my Uyuni Server). Where should the file come from? Also some more errors that I will probably tackle later: ---------- ID: null Function: file.managed Name: null Result: false Comment: One or more requisite failed: channels.mgrchannels_susemanagerplugin_dnf Started: 09:43:50.324922 Duration: 0.003 SLS: channels Changed: {} ---------- ID: null Function: cmd.run Name: null Result: false Comment: One or more requisite failed: channels.mgrchannels_repo Started: 09:43:50.325277 Duration: 0.002 SLS: channels Changed: {} ---------- ID: null Function: cmd.run Name: null Result: false Comment: One or more requisite failed: channels.mgrchannels_repo Started: 09:43:50.325494 Duration: 0.002 SLS: channels Changed: {} Thank you and best wishes, Stefan