Can’t install apache client - Augeas error

My domain is:www.fipgauges.com

I ran this command:
sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto certonly --apache

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)
The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)

My web server is (include version):
apache2

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Debianv8

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
Netgear ReadyNAS 314 drive - home hosted

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
Yes

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
No

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): latest as I also ran update In ssh for python, augeas and Certbot

Please assist…

Regards Daz

I really need to get this working, any advice please?

Daren

First thing I’d try is to remove /opt/eff.org/certbot and try run certbot-auto again.

This will re-download and re-install all of the dependencies required by Certbot, including Augeas.

If it still does not work, then we need to get some more information about the nature of the failure. The below command should produce an error stack trace, which you can post back here:

/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/python -c "import augeas"

I also found a very old comment adjacent to a comment about ReadyNAS, that suggests installing libaugeas-dev from apt may fix the issue.

unfortunately removing and re-adding just produced the same errors.

Logs below…

root@ReadyNAS2:~# sudo apt-get remove certbot
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package certbot
root@ReadyNAS2:~# wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
–2020-01-13 23:55:06-- https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
Resolving dl.eff.org (dl.eff.org)… 151.101.60.201, 2a04:4e42:f::201
Connecting to dl.eff.org (dl.eff.org)|151.101.60.201|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 71650 (70K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘certbot-auto’

certbot-auto 100%[==================================================================================================================>] 69.97K --.-KB/s in 0.02s

2020-01-13 23:55:07 (3.30 MB/s) - ‘certbot-auto’ saved [71650/71650]

root@ReadyNAS2:~# sudo mv certbot-auto /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto
root@ReadyNAS2:~# sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto
root@ReadyNAS2:~# sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto
root@ReadyNAS2:~# sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto certonly --apache
Bootstrapping dependencies for Debian-based OSes… (you can skip this with --no-bootstrap)
Get:1 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [44.9 kB]
Ign:2 http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian jessie InRelease
Hit:3 http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian jessie Release
Hit:5 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.2 InRelease
Fetched 44.9 kB in 1s (37.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
augeas-lenses is already the newest version (1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2).
libaugeas0 is already the newest version (1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2).
gcc is already the newest version (4:4.9.2-2).
libffi-dev is already the newest version (3.1-2+deb8u1).
python is already the newest version (2.7.9-1).
python-dev is already the newest version (2.7.9-1).
python-virtualenv is already the newest version (1.11.6+ds-1).
virtualenv is already the newest version (1.11.6+ds-1).
ca-certificates is already the newest version (20141019+deb8u4).
libssl-dev is already the newest version (1.0.1t-1+deb8u12).
openssl is already the newest version (1.0.1t-1+deb8u12).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
Creating virtual environment…
Installing Python packages…
Installation succeeded.
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)
The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)

2020-01-13 23:57:48,902:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:certbot version: 1.0.0
2020-01-13 23:57:48,905:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Arguments: [’–apache’]
2020-01-13 23:57:48,905:DEBUG:certbot._internal.main:Discovered plugins: PluginsRegistry(PluginEntryPoint#apache,PluginEntryPoint#manual,PluginEntryPoint#nginx,PluginEntryPoint#null,PluginEntryPoint#standalone,PluginEntryPoint#webroot)
2020-01-13 23:57:49,013:DEBUG:certbot._internal.log:Root logging level set at 20
2020-01-13 23:57:49,016:INFO:certbot._internal.log:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
2020-01-13 23:57:49,019:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Requested authenticator apache and installer apache
2020-01-13 23:57:50,243:DEBUG:certbot_apache._internal.configurator:Apache version is 2.4.25
2020-01-13 23:57:50,342:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.disco:No installation (PluginEntryPoint#apache): Problem in Augeas installation
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/plugins/disco.py”, line 130, in prepare
self._initialized.prepare()
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py”, line 251, in prepare
self.parser = self.get_parser()
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py”, line 346, in get_parser
self.version, configurator=self)
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/parser.py”, line 47, in init
self.init_augeas()
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot_apache/_internal/parser.py”, line 96, in init_augeas
raise errors.NoInstallationError(“Problem in Augeas installation”)
NoInstallationError: Problem in Augeas installation
2020-01-13 23:57:50,346:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:No candidate plugin
2020-01-13 23:57:50,347:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:No candidate plugin
2020-01-13 23:57:50,348:DEBUG:certbot._internal.plugins.selection:Selected authenticator None and installer None
2020-01-13 23:57:50,348:INFO:certbot._internal.main:Could not choose appropriate plugin: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)
2020-01-13 23:57:50,352:DEBUG:certbot._internal.log:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/letsencrypt”, line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 14, in main
return internal_main.main(cli_args)
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py”, line 1350, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py”, line 1216, in certonly
installer, auth = plug_sel.choose_configurator_plugins(config, plugins, “certonly”)
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/plugins/selection.py”, line 234, in choose_configurator_plugins
diagnose_configurator_problem(“authenticator”, req_auth, plugins)
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/_internal/plugins/selection.py”, line 338, in diagnose_configurator_problem
raise errors.PluginSelectionError(msg)
PluginSelectionError: The apache plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: NoInstallationError(‘Problem in Augeas installation’,)

root@ReadyNAS2:/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin# python -c “import augeas”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/augeas.py”, line 56, in
class Augeas(object):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/augeas.py”, line 66, in Augeas
_libaugeas = _dlopen(“augeas”)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/augeas.py”, line 53, in _dlopen
raise ImportError(“Unable to import lib%s!” % args[0])
ImportError: Unable to import libaugeas!
root@ReadyNAS2:/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin#

unfortunately I’ve had to give up on Certbot after spending the best part of 10 days trying to get this to install. I have managed to install acmephp, which was fairly painless. However I just realized I needed to request a multi domain cert for domain.com and www.domain.com and just found the acmephp command line to do that.

I’ll get a cron added to request multi certificate (have two individual ones currently, which is no use for my webserver .conf file

It’s nice to see a padlock on my website for the first time :slight_smile:

Daren

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