salt-minion won't start with openssl 1.1.1

[Alexey Bazhin]

# /usr/bin/salt-minion
Usage: salt-minion [options]

salt-minion: error: Failed to load configuration: Failed to initialize OpenSSL library (OPENSSL_init_crypto failed)

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/49661

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: salt-minion 2017.7.4+dfsg1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-7.8-generic 4.18.5
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Oct 15 16:55:48 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-01 (228 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180301)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: salt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Malte Schmidt (maltris)]

This also affects salt-ssh.

[Georges (sim0nx)]

Any update on this?
Bump the package to version 2018.3 ?

[Krzysztof Raczkowski (raczkow)]

This patch: https://github.com/cro/salt/commit/e032bd315dd11c8a57c45081143e060f320f0220.patch
solves the isssue with openssl 1.1.1.
But saltstack is still broken - it won't run with python3 due to tornado5 issues:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893817

The best way to run saltstack in 18.10 is to install it via https://bootstrap.saltstack.com/

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This is addressed in Ubuntu 19.04 with salt >= 2018.3.3+dfsg1-1.