salt windows error

salt windows error.txt

C:\salt>salt-minion -c minion
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\salt-minion.py", line 20, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\salt-minion.py", line 15, in main
    minion.start()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\salt\__init__.py", line 161, in start
    minion.tune_in()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\salt\minion.py", line 302, in tune_in
    self._handle_payload(payload)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\salt\minion.py", line 99, in _handle_payload
    'clear': self._handle_clear}[payload['enc']](payload['load'])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\salt\minion.py", line 131, in _handle_aes
    self._handle_decoded_payload(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\salt\minion.py", line 156, in _handle_decoded_payload
    target=lambda: self._thread_return(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 130, in start
    self._popen = Popen(self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 271, in __init__
    dump(process_obj, to_child, HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 193, in dump
    ForkingPickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 224, in dump
    self.save(obj)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 331, in save
    self.save_reduce(obj=obj, *rv)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 419, in save_reduce
    save(state)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 286, in save
    f(self, obj) # Call unbound method with explicit self
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 649, in save_dict
    self._batch_setitems(obj.iteritems())
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 681, in _batch_setitems
    save(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 286, in save
    f(self, obj) # Call unbound method with explicit self
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 748, in save_global
    (obj, module, name))
pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <function <lambda> at 0x02A7AE30>: it's not found as salt.minion.<lambda>

C:\salt>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 374, in main
    self = load(from_parent)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 1378, in load
    return Unpickler(file).load()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 858, in load
    dispatch[key](self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 880, in load_eof
    raise EOFError
EOFError

C:\salt>

It looks like what we are running into is simply a pickle error on Windows, looks like we need to investigate pickling on Windows