diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index e3c3b15a7..58011c379 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -871,10 +871,8 @@ main() {
       # *  WARN: Not starting daemons on Debian based distributions
       #    is not working mostly because starting them is the default behaviour.
       if [[ $is_deb ]]; then
-        systemctl status salt-master
-        systemctl status salt-minion
-        stop_salt_master
         stop_salt_minion
+        stop_salt_master
       fi
     fi