@eric I don't think they are related et all. I am observing this with a fresh new 1.25.5, agents are being uninstalled with the same exact problem: In this case, I just restarted the machine-19 (among others) ubuntu@niedbalski-sec-bastion:~$ juju status --format=tabular |grep -i lost cinder/1 unknown lost 1.25.5.1 6 10.5.1.203 agent is lost, sorry! See 'juju status-history cinder/1' cinder-ceph/1 unknown lost 1.25.5.1 10.5.1.203 agent is lost, sorry! See 'juju status-history cinder-ceph/1' mysql/0 unknown lost 1.25.5.1 12 10.5.1.209 agent is lost, sorry! See 'juju status-history mysql/0' openstack-dashboard/0 unknown lost 1.25.5.1 19 80/tcp,443/tcp 10.5.1.216 agent is lost, sorry! See 'juju status-history openstack-dashboard/0' 2016-05-03 15:32:31 ERROR juju.worker.apicaller open.go:169 agent terminating due to error returned during API open: invalid entity name or password At this point juju was wiped from the system, which I still think is a complete over-reaction. root@juju-niedbalski-sec-machine-19:/var/log/juju# more machine-19.log 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.cmd supercommand.go:37 running jujud [1.25.5.1-trusty-amd64 gc] 2016-05-03 15:32:30 DEBUG juju.agent agent.go:482 read agent config, format "1.18" 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.cmd.jujud machine.go:418 machine agent machine-19 start (1.25.5.1-trusty-amd64 [gc]) 2016-05-03 15:32:30 DEBUG juju.wrench wrench.go:112 couldn't read wrench directory: stat /var/lib/juju/wrench: no such file or directory 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.cmd.jujud upgrade.go:88 no upgrade steps required or upgrade steps for 1.25.5.1 have already been run. 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.network network.go:242 setting prefer-ipv6 to false 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.worker runner.go:269 start "api" 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.worker runner.go:269 start "statestarter" 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.worker runner.go:269 start "termination" 2016-05-03 15:32:30 INFO juju.api apiclient.go:262 dialing "wss://10.5.1.197:17070/environment/34927576-dbfb-459d-8f82-b2c1c0dcd12c/api" 2016-05-03 15:32:30 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:196 "statestarter" started 2016-05-03 15:32:30 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:196 "termination" started 2016-05-03 15:32:30 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:191 stop "state" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.api apiclient.go:194 connection established to "wss://10.5.1.197:17070/environment/34927576-dbfb-459d-8f82-b2c1c0dcd12c/api" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.api apiclient.go:262 dialing "wss://10.5.1.197:17070/environment/34927576-dbfb-459d-8f82-b2c1c0dcd12c/api" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.api apiclient.go:194 connection established to "wss://10.5.1.197:17070/environment/34927576-dbfb-459d-8f82-b2c1c0dcd12c/api" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 ERROR juju.worker.apicaller open.go:169 agent terminating due to error returned during API open: invalid entity name or password 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.worker runner.go:275 stopped "api", err: agent should be terminated 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:203 "api" done: agent should be terminated 2016-05-03 15:32:31 ERROR juju.worker runner.go:212 fatal "api": agent should be terminated 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:248 killing "statestarter" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:248 killing "termination" 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.worker runner.go:275 stopped "statestarter", err: 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.worker runner.go:275 stopped "termination", err: 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:203 "statestarter" done: 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:227 no restart, removing "statestarter" from known workers 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:203 "termination" done: 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.worker runner.go:227 no restart, removing "termination" from known workers 2016-05-03 15:32:31 DEBUG juju.cmd.jujud machine.go:1741 uninstall file "/var/lib/juju/uninstall-agent" does not exist 2016-05-03 15:32:31 INFO juju.cmd supercommand.go:435 command finished