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On my box, running 2015.2 on Ubuntu Trusty 64-bit, the command\r\n\r\nsudo salt '<minion>' state.highstate\r\n\r\n results in the cryptic error:\r\n\r\nData failed to compile\r\n\r\nThis was because i ran\r\n\r\nsudo salt-minion -l debug\r\n\r\nwhile the salt-minion service was running in the background. Both salt-minion and salt-master were running in foreground and neither outputs an error message.\r\n\r\nPerhaps the second instance of salt-minion could detect whether an instance is running and return immediately with an error message if it does find one. 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