[BUG] `jobs.master` doesn't work

[jtraub91]

Description jobs.master doesn't work, i.e. it does not "Return the actively executing runners for the master".

Setup

Install salt-master / salt-minion on a machine

Configure as follows

# /etc/salt/master.d/master.conf
user: root

# /etc/salt/minion.d/minion.conf
master: localhost

The following orchestration was used to demonstrate the bug.

# /srv/salt/orch.sls

sleep 60:
  cmd.run

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

Run the orchestration

salt-run state.orch orch

In another terminal, while the above orchestration is sleeping, run jobs.master

salt-run jobs.master

Observe that there is no output from this command even though an orchestration is currently running via the state.orch runner.

Expected behavior

jobs.master should report the "actively executing runners for the master". The salt-run jobs.master command in the above example should have given me some sort of indication of the currently running orchestration.

Versions Report

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3007.0

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.13 (main, Feb 19 2024, 03:31:20) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.16.0
      cherrypy: unknown
      dateutil: 2.8.2
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.3
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.7
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 23.1
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.5.2
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 25.1.2
        relenv: 0.15.1
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.3.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

Salt Package Information:
  Package Type: onedir

System Versions:
          dist: ubuntu 22.04.2 jammy
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.15.0-67-generic
        system: Linux
       version: Ubuntu 22.04.2 jammy

[dwoz]

Is this also an issue in 3006.x?

[jtraub91]

@dwoz yes, appears to behave the same in 3006.8 at least

[InsomniacL10]

while running a salt-run command /var/cache/salt/master/proc is empty jobs.master uses get_running_jobs

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/utils/master.py#L33

and this suggests something should be in the /var/cache/salt/master/proc folder