I’m getting this on a renewal, never had a problem before.
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION=“18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)”
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS”
VERSION_ID=“18.04”
I’m getting this on a renewal, never had a problem before.
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION=“18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)”
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS”
VERSION_ID=“18.04”
Same problem here. I’ve tried a renewal and a fresh instance, both throwing the same error as OP:
NAME=“Amazon Linux AMI”
VERSION=“2018.03”
ID=“amzn”
ID_LIKE=“rhel fedora”
VERSION_ID=“2018.03”
PRETTY_NAME=“Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03”
This is a problem in pip. You can fix this for now by adding the --no-download
flag to the calls to virtualenv
on lines 1001 and 1003:
diff --git a/certbot-auto b/certbot-auto
index be2c367..2c0f64a 100755
--- a/certbot-auto
+++ b/certbot-auto
@@ -998,9 +998,9 @@ if [ "$1" = "--le-auto-phase2" ]; then
rm -rf "$VENV_PATH"
if [ "$PYVER" -le 27 ]; then
if [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ]; then
- virtualenv --no-site-packages --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH"
+ virtualenv --no-site-packages --no-download --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH"
else
- virtualenv --no-site-packages --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH" > /dev/null
+ virtualenv --no-site-packages --no-download --python "$LE_PYTHON" "$VENV_PATH" > /dev/null
fi
else
if [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ]; then
For those not familiar with how to apply diffs/patches, this one liner may be used to do the same thing (replace /path/to/certbot-auto
with the path to your real certbot-auto
file):
sed -i 's/virtualenv --no-site-packages/virtualenv --no-download --no-site-packages/' /path/to/certbot-auto
This worked for me.
Thank you very much, this worked for me as well! Appreciate the prompt attention to the issue and providing a workaround.
This worked for me as well. Thank you for the workaround!
I'm afraid this workaround does not work for a fresh install if you are trying to use the tool for the first time.
A new version of pip fixing this issue was released an hour or two ago.
That’s wonderful to hear. Can anyone point me in the right direction to download and install it?
Thanks!
Running certbot-auto again should automatically use it.
Thanks. I tried running it again (in my case letsencrypt-auto) on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS install on aws and I’m afraid the error is still the same.
Probably a newb question, but how long should this change remain? Will it automatically be handled in the next update? thanks.
Thanks ! I had the same issue as @melee1313 and this fixed it.
As a side note, in my system the file you mention is called “/opt/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto” and not “/opt/letsencrypt/certbot-auto”
Thank You!!! This worked like a charm
It might automatically be fixed now by pip’s release: https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/6185, which includes https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/6171
We also plan to fix Certbot so that it won’t be affected should this happen again: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/6685
So if you manually make the change now, future versions of Certbot will automatically incorporate the change, on our end.
Same error HERE!!!
and fixed with erica’s solution
ty!!!
New install, Ubuntu 16.04 on AWS.
Installed letsencrypt by:
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt /opt/letsencrypt
I added the “–no-download” fix to those 2 lines, still fails
Certbot has problem setting up the virtual environment.
We were not be able to guess the right solution from your pip
output.
Suddenly, it worked!
Creating virtual environment…
Installing Python packages…
Installation succeeded.
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