My domain is: aeolian.org.uk
I ran this command: (from root crontab and also manually as root) /usr/sbin/apachectl stop && /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto renew --quiet --no-self-upgrade --renew-hook “echo RENEWED $RENEWED_DOMAINS”; /usr/sbin/apachectl start
It produced this output: see below
My web server is (include version): Apache2 2.4.10
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 8 (jessie)
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Bytemark VM
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): tried various, see below
It first broke because I was running debian wheezy which was EOL. The fix that someone proposed didn’t work for me, and next the wheezy repositories were archived and that gave extra errors.
I’ve now upgraded to Jessie, apparently (fairly) cleanly. It’s not the latest Debian but it’s not EOL and certbot-auto should work with it.
I’ve tried running (as root) the latest certbot-auto version, and an old one (0.30). These give different errors
with version 30 and --no_self_upgrade
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/tmp/tmp.wKemZgHq7z/pipstrap.py”, line 157, in
exit(main())
File “/tmp/tmp.wKemZgHq7z/pipstrap.py”, line 146, in main
shell=True)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 574, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘pip install --no-index --no-deps -U /tmp/pipstrap-fK6Cf4/pip-9.0.1.tar.gz /tmp/pipstrap-fK6Cf4/setuptools-40.6.3.zip /tmp/pipstrap-fK6Cf4/wheel-0.29.0.tar.gz’ returned non-zero exit status 1
with latest version. Also with --no_self_upgrade as I wanted to know what version I’m running.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/tmp/tmp.g7hN4geKVP/pipstrap.py”, line 177, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/tmp/tmp.g7hN4geKVP/pipstrap.py”, line 164, in main
check_output(command)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 574, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[’/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv/bin/python’, ‘-m’, ‘pip’, ‘install’, ‘–no-index’, ‘–no-deps’, ‘-U’, ‘/tmp/pipstrap-PzAYLj/pip-9.0.1.tar.gz’, ‘/tmp/pipstrap-PzAYLj/setuptools-40.6.3.zip’, ‘/tmp/pipstrap-PzAYLj/wheel-0.29.0.tar.gz’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1
Set USE_PYTHON_3=1 with latest ver, error changes to
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 27, in
File “”, line 23, in create_venv
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py”, line 561, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[’/usr/bin/python3’, ‘-m’, ‘venv’, ‘/opt/eff.org/certbot/venv’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1
These errors seem similar to the one in this post Unable to renew/install upgrade to certbot
and similarly USE_PYTHON_3=1 with ver 0.30 doesn’t fix things.
–no_bootstrap has no effect.
Python is version 2.7.12 and python 3 is 3.4.2
pip was originally not available as a command but pip3 was. I’ve just forced a reload of pip which is now available as a command.
virtualenv was not available as a command in wheezy and that gave a different error, but is now installed in Jessie.
–verbose doesn’t give any more details of the error.
I moved from a single domain to a wildcard cert for two domains recently, but unless I’m much mistaken the renew errors started a bit after that change.
Does it affect this error if apache2 isn’t stopped? I have a temporary issue over stopping and starting Apache but these errors seems to predate it.
I’m a beginner with Python and SSL and am blundering around trying everything I can, but will try suggestions and report back with output.
If I can’t get certbot-auto to work in the next few days, can someone tell me if I can/how to renew with certbot safely with my existing config?
Thanks in advance