Cannot extend ID. It is not part of highstate

• September 19, 2013
• saltstack  

I spent quite a while scratching my head over the following error message from Salt:

Cannot extend ID trafficserver in "base:trafficserver.collector". It is not part of the high state.

This actually means that you used a requisite clause like watch_in to inject a dependency into a state that Salt cannot resolve. I filed bug 7336.