Hi,

Jenkins slave hosted on a AWS Linux EC2 instance continues to appear online on the Jenkins UI even after the ec2 instance has been terminated. It disappears only after a long time after multiple retries. And in the meanwhile, the jobs using the label of the slave understandably fails with the following stack trace. Please help me understand what is causing the slave to appear online after the instance has been terminated. Thanks 

java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Ping started at 1510074982158 hasn't completed by 1510075222158 Caused: java.io.IOException at hudson.remoting.Channel.close(Channel.java:1400) at hudson.slaves.ChannelPinger$1.onDead(ChannelPinger.java:180) at hudson.remoting.PingThread.ping(PingThread.java:130) at hudson.remoting.PingThread.run(PingThread.java:86) Caused: hudson.remoting.ChannelClosedException: Remote call on Channel to /10.63.16.187 failed. The channel is closing down or has closed down at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:898) at hudson.util.RemotingDiagnostics.executeGroovy(RemotingDiagnostics.java:111) at jenkins.model.Jenkins._doScript(Jenkins.java:4367) at hudson.model.Computer._doScript(Computer.java:1444) at hudson.model.Computer.doScript(Computer.java:1433) at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:627) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:343) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:184) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:117) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:129) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$10.dispatch(MetaClass.java:374) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$3.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:209) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:715) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:845) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:841) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1650) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:135) at net.bull.javamelody.MonitoringFilter.doFilter(MonitoringFilter.java:232) at net.bull.javamelody.MonitoringFilter.doFilter(MonitoringFilter.java:209) at net.bull.javamelody.PluginMonitoringFilter.doFilter(PluginMonitoringFilter.java:88) at org.jvnet.hudson.plugins.monitoring.HudsonMonitoringFilter.doFilter(HudsonMonitoringFilter.java:113) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.plugins.audit_trail.AuditTrailFilter.doFilter(AuditTrailFilter.java:66) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:176) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:145) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:92) at com.marvelution.jenkins.plugins.jira.filter.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:51) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at com.marvelution.jenkins.plugins.jira.filter.OAuthFilter.doFilter(OAuthFilter.java:88) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.plugins.greenballs.GreenBallFilter.doFilter(GreenBallFilter.java:58) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:138) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84) at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:92) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249) at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:90) at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1637) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:524) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:190) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:188) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1253) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:168) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:473) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:166) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1155) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:564) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:317) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:279) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:110) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:124) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Invocable.invokePreferred(Invocable.java:128) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.Invocable$InvocableExecutor.invoke(Invocable.java:222) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:294) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:199) at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)