There's a configuration issue that needs to be fixed for manual provider.
I'm not yet certain if this error prevents the various moving parts from initialising correctly in order to cause the observed symptoms, but the error needs to be fixed nonetheless.
I've found the cause for one of the errors shown in the logs:
2014-04-04 16:31:59 ERROR juju.worker environ.go:56 loaded invalid environment configuration: storage-port: expected int, got float64(8040)
There's a configuration issue that needs to be fixed for manual provider.
I'm not yet certain if this error prevents the various moving parts from initialising correctly in order to cause the observed symptoms, but the error needs to be fixed nonetheless.