Error 'Some challenges have failed' from `certbot renew`

Your cert service for familytree.clanmills.com and familytree.clanmills.co.uk looks good.

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root@clanmills:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
...
All packages are up to date.
root@clanmills:~# apt install --yes --only-upgrade certbot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
certbot is already the newest version (2.9.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@clanmills:~# 

What you are doing here is wonderful. The certificates are great. The support is even better. You work in this area and are familiar with the technology. For me, certificates are some kind of mysterious black-magic.

apt list | grep certbot

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

certbot/noble,now 2.9.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
python-certbot-dns-cloudflare-doc/noble 2.0.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-digitalocean-doc/noble 2.0.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-dnsimple-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-gehirn-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-google-doc/noble 2.0.0-2 all
python-certbot-dns-linode-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-ovh-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-rfc2136-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-route53-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-dns-sakuracloud-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python-certbot-doc/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-apache/noble,now 2.9.0-1 all [installed]
python3-certbot-dns-cloudflare/noble 2.0.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-digitalocean/noble 2.0.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-dnsimple/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-gandi/noble-updates 1.4.3-2ubuntu0.1 all
python3-certbot-dns-gehirn/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-google/noble 2.0.0-2 all
python3-certbot-dns-infomaniak/noble 0.2.2-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-linode/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-ovh/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-rfc2136/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-route53/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-sakuracloud/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot-dns-standalone/noble 1.1-2 all
python3-certbot-nginx/noble 2.9.0-1 all
python3-certbot/noble,now 2.9.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
root@clanmills:~# 
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Yeah, that's the big downside of using the repository of distributions like Ubuntu (or Debian): they lag behind enormously. (Contrary to e.g. Gentoo.)

Note that the Certbot devs suggest using snap for installing Certbot. Which is always on the latest release. Not that it's for you necessary to move over, but keep that in mind if you need more recent features in the future.

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We have the same issue with apt and exiv2. Apt installs a three or four year year old version.

When I was sniffing into certbot/version on stackoverflow, somebody said "use snap". I'll wrestle that monster another day.

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Never change a winning team :wink:

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