Something that has been working for almost 2 years… now suddenly is not working.
Tried literally every command I can find, with all possible options and flags and the renewal process hangs on the “Creating Virtual Environment…” step, or the “Installing setuptools, pip, wheel…”
When it gets stuck on the above, this results in the server CPU spinning out of control and falling over - requiring a server reboot.
Any tips on how to get this back working again?
To add to the confusion, there are 3 other completely identical servers (same PIP versions, same Python versions, same Certbot versions, same Amazon Linux versions) - all of which work absolutely fine.
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I’d really like to understand what went on though. In the end, I ended up bumping up the AWS EC2 instance size of the server to a t2.large to give it some more juice and even still, it took a whole 45 minutes of waiting until the “… Done… Installing Python Packages…” bits and the other bits after that actually completed.
During this time, I was watching the CPU usage on the server and the Python script was eating up 100% of one of the CPUs, so it was trying to do something the whole time.
What would cause something like this? Trouble from the Certbot script communicating with the outside world? Trouble on one of the third party servers that was being called? Trouble with Certbot auto-updating the script? Something else?
As I say, I’ve never had a problem like this before with Certbot and I use Certbot for everything - I’d just like to understand why it happened and if there is anything that can be done to prevent this happening again in the future.