Juju Node stuck in "life: dying" after trying to destroy-service

[Kurt]

Here is the use case to reproduce:

After doing something bad to my node w/r IP addressing, I completely blew up my node after trying to reboot. I had no ssh access to fix anything.

I could:
destroy the service from the gui (which showed icon disappear but service was still there)
destroy the service from the CLI (which gave no error condition return)

I could not:
Fully destroy the service. Juju believes there is still a running system there.

kurt@maas-cntrl:~$ juju -vvv destroy-service nova-cloud-controller
2013-09-10 21:49:18 INFO juju.state open.go:68 opening state; mongo addresses: ["3nafd.master:37017"]; entity ""
2013-09-10 21:49:18 INFO juju.state open.go:106 connection established
2013-09-10 21:49:18 INFO juju supercommand.go:284 command finished

juju-status for the controller:

  nova-cloud-controller:
    charm: cs:precise/nova-cloud-controller-14
    exposed: false
    life: dying
    relations:
      cluster:
      - nova-cloud-controller
    units:
      nova-cloud-controller/0:
        agent-state: down
        agent-state-info: (started)
        agent-version: 1.12.0

So now I will likely have to destroy all services to fix this and start over.