Troubleshooting

Generated script '/srv/salt/makina-states/bin/buildout'.
Launching buildout for salt initialisation
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/buildout", line 17, in <module>
    import zc.buildout.buildout
  File "/srv/salt/makina-states/eggs/zc.buildout-1.7.1-py2.7.egg/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 40, in <module>
    import zc.buildout.download
  File "/srv/salt/makina-states/eggs/zc.buildout-1.7.1-py2.7.egg/zc/buildout/download.py", line 20, in <module>
    from zc..buildout.easy_install import realpath
  File "/srv/salt/makina-states/eggs/zc.buildout-1.7.1-py2.7.egg/zc/buildout/easy_install.py", line 31, in <module>
    import setuptools.package_index
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg/setuptools/package_index.py", line 157, in <module>
    sys.version[:3], require('distribute')[0].version
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 728, in require
    supplied, ``sys.path`` is used.
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources.py", line 626, in resolve
    ``VersionConflict`` instance.
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: distribute
Failed buildout

Update your system setuptools install to match latest setuptools (distribute + setuptools fork reunion):

sudo easy_install -U setuptools