$ salt eglide state.apply roles/shellserver/users
Salt request timed out. The master is not responding. If this error persists after verifying the master is up, worker_threads may need to be increased.
$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/salt_master restart
salt_master not running? (check /var/run/salt-master.pid).
Starting salt_master.
$ salt eglide state.apply roles/shellserver/users
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Succeeded: 55 (changed=3)
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