I have exactly same issue, had a crontab entry that was using letsencrypt renew, but was not stopping nginx first, hence failing. Now won’t renew: I have just added the nginx plugin for certbot, so hopefuly won’t be an issue again, bur still have to get rid of current requests…here is snip from letsencrypt.log
Content-Type: application/problem+json
Content-Length: 144
Boulder-Request-Id: 0MArl3otVSvBZyBJWWMb67Add1ZGIFEG6m21A3589Cg
Boulder-Requester: 6934496
Replay-Nonce: 8SQgbHhS6rbq9e7C_66IYxMpMvZaIy1zAH8gCW3Ngl0
Expires: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:54:51 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:54:51 GMT
Connection: close
{
“type”: “urn:acme:error:rateLimited”,
“detail”: “Error creating new authz :: too many currently pending
authorizations”,
“status”: 429
}
2017-08-23 08:54:51,379:DEBUG:acme.client:Storing nonce: 8SQgbHhS6rb
q9e7C_66IYxMpMvZaIy1zAH8gCW3Ngl0
2017-08-23 08:54:51,380:DEBUG:certbot.log:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/certbot”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘certbot==0.17.0’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘certbot’
)()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 753,
in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 606,
in run
certname, lineage)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/main.py”, line 82,
in _get_and_save_cert
lineage = le_client.obtain_and_enroll_certificate(domains, certn
ame)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py”, line 35
7, in obtain_and_enroll_certificate
certr, chain, key, _ = self.obtain_certificate(domains)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/client.py”, line 31
8, in obtain_certificate
self.config.allow_subset_of_names)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/certbot/auth_handler.py”, l
ine 66, in get_authorizations
self.authzr[domain] = self.acme.request_domain_challenges(domain
)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py”, line 212,
in request_domain_challenges
typ=messages.IDENTIFIER_FQDN, value=domain), new_authzr_uri)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py”, line 191,
in request_challenges
response = self.net.post(self.directory.new_authz, new_authz)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py”, line 682,
in post
return self._post_once(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py”, line 695,
in _post_once
return self._check_response(response, content_type=content_type)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acme/client.py”, line 582,
in _check_response
raise messages.Error.from_json(jobj)
Error: urn:acme:error:rateLimited :: There were too many requests of
a given type :: Error creating new authz :: too many currently pend
ing authorizations
Am I using the right keys, so Can I use the github project to cancel these requests ?