Salt File Error

us-east-1b-dev-saltmaster-i-e072da81:
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    State: - pkg
    Name:      td-agent
    Function:  installed
        Result:    True
        Comment:   Package td-agent is already installed
        Changes:
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    State: - file
    Name:      /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf
    Function:  managed
        Result:    False
        Comment:   An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 1201, in call
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/states/file.py", line 854, in managed
    contents)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/modules/file.py", line 1554, in manage_file
    if not salt.utils.istextfile(sfn) \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/utils/__init__.py", line 708, in istextfile
    by reading a single block of bytes from the file.
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'

        Changes:
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    State: - service
    Name:      td-agent
    Function:  running
        Result:    False
        Comment:   One or more requisite failed
        Changes: