Getting the exception "Elastic Bamboo Error : EC2 Instance i-84c0a7e6 is in an unrecognised state: UNKNOWN: Failure in EC2 instance i-84c0a7e6. Attempting to terminate.

[Venkat Raman]

We have a build plan that has been configured and it ran successfully. Now it is throwing the below exception and the instances has got terminated.

What could be the reason and how should we address the same.

com.xerox.amazonws.ec2.EC2Exception: The host did not accept the connection within timeout of 30000 ms

at com.xerox.amazonws.ec2.Jec2.makeRequestInt(Jec2.java:2012)

at com.xerox.amazonws.ec2.Jec2.describeInstances(Jec2.java:691)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.describeInstance(RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.java:292)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.EC2InstanceState$2.supervise(EC2InstanceState.java:77)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.backgroundSupervise(RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.java:441)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.access$300(RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.java:25)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.RemoteEC2InstanceImpl$2.run(RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.java:127)

at com.atlassian.aws.ec2.RemoteEC2InstanceImpl$CatchingRunnableDecorator.run(RemoteEC2InstanceImpl.java:98)

at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)

at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)

at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)

at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Caused by: org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException: The host did not accept the connection within timeout of 30000 ms

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.ControllerThreadSocketFactory.createSocket(ControllerThreadSocketFactory.java:96)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:127)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:706)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$HttpConnectionAdapter.open(MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.java:1321)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:386)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:396)

at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:324)

at com.xerox.amazonws.common.AWSQueryConnection.makeRequest(AWSQueryConnection.java:403)

at com.xerox.amazonws.ec2.Jec2.makeRequestInt(Jec2.java:2004)

... 16 more

[James Dumay]

That might be a bug. Could you file an issue with our support team? They can help you to try to fix this.