salt master/minion errors

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# service salt_minion restart
salt_minion not running? (check /var/run/salt-minion.pid).
Starting salt_minion.
Usage: salt-minion [options]

salt-minion: error: Error while processing <function LogLevelMixIn.__setup_logging at 0x803a1af70>: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/utils/parsers.py", line 212, in parse_args
    mixin_after_parsed_func(self)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/utils/parsers.py", line 905, in __setup_logging
    salt._logging.setup_logging()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/_logging/impl.py", line 971, in setup_logging
    setup_extended_logging(opts)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/_logging/impl.py", line 878, in setup_extended_logging
    providers = salt.loader.log_handlers(opts)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/loader/__init__.py", line 857, in log_handlers
    _module_dirs(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/loader/__init__.py", line 153, in _module_dirs
    for entry_point in entrypoints.iter_entry_points("salt.loader"):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/utils/entrypoints.py", line 29, in _wrapped
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/salt/utils/entrypoints.py", line 41, in iter_entry_points
    for entry_point_group, entry_points_list in entry_points.items():
AttributeError: 'EntryPoints' object has no attribute 'items'

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/salt_minion: WARNING: failed to start salt_minion

After removing py39-importlib-metadata

# pkg delete py39-importlib-metadata
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 2 packages (of 0 packages in the universe):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
    py39-importlib-metadata: 6.0.0_1
    py39-pre-commit: 1.21.0

Number of packages to be removed: 2

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Deinstalling py39-pre-commit-1.21.0...
[1/2] Deleting files for py39-pre-commit-1.21.0: 100%
[2/2] Deinstalling py39-importlib-metadata-6.0.0_1...
[2/2] Deleting files for py39-importlib-metadata-6.0.0_1: 100%
# service salt_minion restart
salt_minion not running? (check /var/run/salt-minion.pid).
Starting salt_minion.