Comment 4 for bug 1190715

@ahasenack, juju expects that you'll use juju to manipulate the environment. Deliberately terminating an instance out-of-band is not supported behaviour at the moment; so I think the precise expression of the original bug is "invalid".

@davidpbritton, just to be clear (with no implication that it's not-a-bug): I think that that use case *will* recover; it will just take a while to do so. I absolutely agree that it could and should be done faster when the unit agent's not running. If that's not the case, please post a status demonstrating the stuckness of deploy/destroy-service please (or just point me to the equivalent existing bug ofc)?

Either way, I think this bug can be actionably characterized as "units of destroyed services are not destroyed if their agents are not running"; and fixing that will clearly improve the experience in both the described use cases. Sensible?