# salt.exceptions

This module is a central location for all salt exceptions

exception `salt.exceptions.` `AuthenticationError`

  If sha256 signature fails during decryption

exception `salt.exceptions.` `CommandExecutionError`

  Used when a module runs a command which returns an error and wants to show the user the output gracefully instead of dying

exception `salt.exceptions.` `CommandNotFoundError`

  Used in modules or grains when a required binary is not available

exception `salt.exceptions.` `EauthAuthenticationError`

  Thrown when eauth authentication fails

exception `salt.exceptions.` `LoaderError`

  Problems loading the right renderer

exception `salt.exceptions.` `MasterExit`

  Rise when the master exits

exception `salt.exceptions.` `MinionError`

  Minion problems reading uris such as salt:// or http://

exception `salt.exceptions.` `PkgParseError`

  Used when of the pkg modules cannot correctly parse the output from the CLI tool (pacman, yum, apt, aptitude, etc)

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltClientError`

  Problem reading the master root key

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltException`

  Base exception class; all Salt-specific exceptions should subclass this

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltInvocationError`

  Used when the wrong number of arguments are sent to modules or invalid arguments are specified on the command line

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltMasterError`

  Problem reading the master root key

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltRenderError`

  Used when a renderer needs to raise an explicit error

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltReqTimeoutError`

  Thrown when a salt master request call fails to return within the timeout

exception `salt.exceptions.` `SaltSystemExit`(code=0, msg=None)

  This exception is raised when an unsolvable problem is found. There's nothing else to do, salt should just exit.

exception `salt.exceptions.` `TimedProcTimeoutError`

  Thrown when a timed subprocess does not terminate within the timeout, or if the specified timeout is not an int or a float

Current Salt release: 0.17.1

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