saltstack/salt-cloud — pull request #190 by techhat (2012-12-06 23:12:44+00:00)
Title: Only wait for minion to check if a start_action is specified

I don't know how many people (if any) are even using start_action yet, but at least this will narrow the problem to just them... and a temporary fix for them would be to use startup states:

http://docs.saltstack.org/en/latest/ref/states/startup.html