saltstack/salt — pull request #2997 by torhve (2012-12-22 00:32:43+00:00)
Title: Better error handling when state doesn't return a dictionary

Changes:
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/state.py", line 1965, in render_highstate
highstate.update(state)
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 64; 2 is required

Into:
local:
Data failed to compile:
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Error when rendering state with contents: ['include - stdpackages - ssh - vim - ntp - zsh - munin - backuppc']
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SLS core does not render to a dictionary