RHEL8 minion does not run states after installation of minion

Description
Creating a new RHEL8 salt-minion using salt-cloud. This automatically installs the latest salt-minion version for 3005.x

Post the salt configuration, the minion does not execute any state passed from the master. The error in the minion log says

2022-12-06 16:21:18,435 [salt.utils.event :821 ][DEBUG ][4602] Sending event: tag = _salt_error; data = {'message': 'The minion function caused an exception', 'args': ('The minion function caused an exception',)

I am attaching a debug based output of the minion log to this report so that all the details are available.

Setup

Fresh install of salt-master 3005.1-2 on RHEL9. Trying to use salt-cloud to create a new RHEL8 minion (RHEL 8.0)

The platform is VMware and the salt-master and minion are both VMware virtual machines.

There is no firewall running on either master or minion.

Both are in the same network, so no VLAN etc configuration

Trying to use onedir 3005 as bootstrap arguments. Same thing happens with any method for the minion install git/stable etc

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

• on-prem machine
• [ X] VM (VMware 7.x/Vsphere 7)
• [ X] classic packaging
• [ X] onedir packaging
• used bootstrap to install - this is running via salt-cloud command arguments.

Steps to Reproduce the behavior
Attaching the logs to this report.

Steps:

• Fresh install of salt-master with salt-cloud version 3005.1-2 on RHEL9
• create a configuration for a new RHEL8 system and call the salt-cloud command to create the VM
• After the minion spins up and salt installs on it, no state will work on the minion. The above errors mentioned are seen.
• Basic module commands from master to ping the minion etc will work. However any state execution via sls will hang indefinitely and return with a timeout. The errors will get thrown in the minion logs.

Expected behavior

The state should execute successfully. Never happens

Screenshots
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Versions Report

any simple sls file can be tried.  Say a small sls to install gcc.  In our case, we have a startup state to rename the host based on the VM name in Vmware.
[salt-master-exception.txt](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/files/10169518/salt-master-exception.txt)
[salt-minion-log.txt](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/files/10169521/salt-minion-log.txt)

Additional context
We have a master running 3003 version of salt and everything works fine there. This seems to be 3005 specific. We need 3005 to move our master to the newer version. But this is breaking.

Please let me know if you need any other information from me.

Start by reviewing the attached salt-master-exception.txt and salt-minion-log.txt alongside the RHEL8/RHEL9 and Salt 3005.1 setup described in the report. Trace why state execution hangs while basic module commands succeed; done means a freshly installed RHEL8 minion executes a simple SLS state successfully without timing out.