Error Renewing Cerificate

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My domain is: robotscollective.org

I ran this command: sudo certbot renew

It produced this output:

Attempting to renew cert (robotscollective.org) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/robotscollective.org.conf produced an unexpected error: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:malformed :: The request message was malformed :: Unable to update challenge :: authorization must be pending. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/robotscollective.org/fullchain.pem (failure)


All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/robotscollective.org/fullchain.pem (failure)


1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

My web server is (include version): Apache on RaspberryPi

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): RaspberryPi OS (Raspbian)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Myself

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): certbot 0.31.0

Hi @scharbonneau

normally, that error says: Your client is buggy, you send the commands in the wrong order.

But that with Certbot? Curious. So I don't really understand your output.

First step: Update your Certbot.

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