Romans-MacBook-Air:repo holms$ cat minion
master: localhost
file_client: local
failhard: True
environment: dev
file_roots:
    base:
        - /srv/salt/states
        - /srv/salt/formulas
        - /srv/salt

pillar_roots:
    base:
        - /srv/salt/pillar



# cat top.sls
dev:
  '*':
    - common
    - mysql
    - nginx
    - zipie


[INFO    ] Loading fresh modules for state activity
local:
----------
          ID: states
    Function: no.None
      Result: False
     Comment: No Top file or external nodes data matches found
     Started:
    Duration:
     Changes:

Summary
------------
Succeeded: 0
Failed:    1
------------
Total states run:     1
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

salt-call state.highstate --retcode-passthrough  --log-level=info --force-color

Stdout from the command:

local:
----------
          ID: states
    Function: no.None
      Result: False
     Comment: No Top file or external nodes data matches found
     Started:
    Duration:
     Changes:

Summary
------------
Succeeded: 0
Failed:    1
------------
Total states run:     1