Cannot renew certificate "ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref"

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Hello, everybody,

I can’t renew my server certificate anymore. For more than 2 years everything ran without problems. Probably the problem started with the update of Ubuntu to version 17.10

I’ve been through several forums. But so far I haven’t found anything to help me with my problem.

Because of the effort I shy away from reinstalling the server.

Many greetings and thanks for the help in advance

My domain is:
www.gneisenau.org

I ran this command:
./letsencrypt-auto renew

It produced this output:
Error: couldn’t get currently installed version for /opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/letsencrypt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/letsencrypt”, line 7, in
from certbot.main import main
File “/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 4, in
import logging.handlers
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/init.py”, line 26, in
import sys, os, time, cStringIO, traceback, warnings, weakref, collections
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/weakref.py”, line 14, in
from _weakref import (
ImportError: cannot import name _remove_dead_weakref

My web server is (include version):
Server version: Apache/2.4.27 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2017-09-18T15:05:48

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64)

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

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@jsha Can you take a look at this?

Thank you

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I would rather suggest @bmw because this seems to be a client packaging issue rather than a server infrastructure issue.

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The error is coming from the Python standard library on your system. I think there is either a problem with the Python installation or the virtual environment used by Certbot.

First, I’d try running sudo rm -rf /opt/eff.org and running letsencrypt-auto again.

If you still get the issue, do you get the same ImportError when you run:

python2 -c 'import weakref'

If so, you should run sudo rm -rf /opt/eff.org, try reinstalling python from apt-get, and running letsencrypt-auto again.

If not, do you get the error when you run:

cd $(mktemp -d)
virtualenv -p python2 venv
./venv/bin/python -c 'import weakref'

If so, you should also run sudo rm -rf /opt/eff.org, but try reinstalling the virtualenv package and running letsencrypt-auto again.

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Ah perfect thank you. your recommendation worked

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Working perfectly, thank you very much!

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