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When running simple cmd.run command:
 
salt 'hostname' cmd.run 'ls /tmp'
hostname:
    ERROR: Specified cwd '.' either not absolute or does not exist
 
 
Minion logs shows:

2015-02-04 19:21:50,456 [salt.minion                                 ][ERROR   ] A command in 'cmd.run' had a problem: Specified cwd '.' either not absolute or does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/minion.py", line 809, in _thread_return
    return_data = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/modules/cmdmod.py", line 578, in run
    saltenv=saltenv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/modules/cmdmod.py", line 409, in _run
    .format(cwd)
CommandExecutionError: Specified cwd '.' either not absolute or does not exist
 
 
Restarting the minion process works fixes it.