Centos 6.4, salt 0.16.4
vagrant 1.3.1 with salty-vagrant

redis.sls

redis:
  pkg:
    - installed
  service:
    - running


console in debug

----------
    State: - service
    Name:      redis
    Function:  running
        Result:    False
        Comment:   Service redis failed to start
        Changes:

[root@master vagrant]# service redis start
Starting redis-server: runuser: user redis does not exist
                                                           [FAILED]

/var/log/salt/minion

2013-09-23 16:47:50,209 [salt.loaded.int.module.yumpkg][INFO    ] Selecting "redis" for installation
redis changed from absent to 2.4.10-1.el6
2013-09-23 16:48:18,429 [salt.state       ][INFO    ] Executing state service.running for redis
2013-09-23 16:48:18,430 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod][INFO    ] Executing command '/sbin/service redis status' in directory '/root'
2013-09-23 16:48:18,462 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod][INFO    ] Executing command '/sbin/service redis start' in directory '/root'
2013-09-23 16:48:18,501 [salt.state       ][ERROR   ] No changes made for redis