[BUG] Cannot run salt-master without root

[Akm0d]

Description
Running salt master in Vscode integrated terminal as a non-root user results in:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'dmesg'

Setup
(Please provide relevant configs and/or SLS files (be sure to remove sensitive info. There is no general set-up of Salt.)
Master config:

user: localuser
root_dir: /home/localuser/salt_config/root

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

pip install

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

• git clone https://github.com/saltstack/salt.git
• python3.10 -m venv .venv
• source .venv/bin/activate
• .venv/bin/salt-master -c /home/localuser/salt_config

Expected behavior
Salt Master runs normally

Versions Report

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3007.1+450.g9d10d699f3
 
Python Version:
        Python: 3.12.7 (main, Nov 10 2011, 15:00:00) [GCC 14.2.0]
 
Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.17.1
      cherrypy: 18.10.0
  cryptography: 44.0.0
      dateutil: 2.9.0.post0
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.4
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.1.0
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.2
     pycparser: 2.22
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.21.0
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.5.3
        PyYAML: 6.0.2
         PyZMQ: 26.2.0
        relenv: Not Installed
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.4.2
           ZMQ: 4.3.5
 
Salt Package Information:
  Package Type: pip
 
System Versions:
          dist: org.freedesktop.platform 24.08 Flatpak runtime
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 6.9.3-76060903-generic
        system: Linux
       version: Freedesktop SDK 24.08 Flatpak runtime

[dnessett]

What version of Ubuntu were you running when you encountered the problem? The system information only specifies the kernel version (which may map to Ubuntu 23.10, but not necessarily).

[OrangeDog]

Freedesktop SDK 24.08 Flatpak runtime

That's not Ubuntu...

[dnessett]

Then I guess the person who posted the issue is confused, since the Description says: "Running salt master on Ubuntu as a non-root user results in:" Perhaps the person who created the issue would clear this up.

[Akm0d]

VScode's integrated terminal gave me that --version-report output even though I am on Ubuntu 22.04.
I'm running the master and minion as non-root through vscode so I can step through with a debugger and the grain trying to run "dmesg" kept getting in the way.

[dnessett]

Okey Doke. Thanks for clearing that up.