Installation via letsencrypt-auto fails with error code 1

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Running Debian 8.2, I am trying to follow the instructions to install using letsencrypt-auto, but it hangsfor a while at “Updating letsencrypt and virtual environment dependencies…”. I get the following error message:

Command "/home/mvd/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/python2.7 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/user/1000/pip-build-p0CMhA/cryptography/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/user/1000/pip-pz5S01-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/mvd/.local/share/letsencrypt/include/site/python2.7/cryptography" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/user/1000/pip-build-p0CMhA/cryptography

Clearly the problem is somehow related to the cryptography module, but I can’t get it to give me more useful output. Furthermore, trying to use the --help option does nothing but try to run the virtualenv update step again, so I can’t even see if there is a way to print more verbose output.

Update 1: If I manually activate the letsencrypt virtualenv and pip install cryptography, it appears to work. So why does it fail if I don’t do this?

Update 2: I have tried to run the developer instructions for installing a local copy. At the ./bootstrap/dev/venv.sh step, I get another error, but this time with more verbosity:

    running build_ext
    generating cffi module 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_padding.c'
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
    generating cffi module 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_constant_time.c'
    generating cffi module 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_openssl.c'
    building '_openssl' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/build
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_openssl.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/_openssl.o
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1)
    Please submit a full bug report,
    with preprocessed source if appropriate.
    See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs> for instructions.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 4
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Ran into the same problem.

After digging around I found the following helped resolve this issue, by creating an extra swap file:

My little VM only had 512 MB of RAM.

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Many thanks - adding swap solved this same problem for me.

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Adding a swap file didn’t help in my case.

What did help however, was removing the hidden installation directory:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/letsencrypt

Once that was done, letsencrypt did download on the next run the current dependencies and my process was running again.

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Jup, that worked for me as well.

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For solve this i do it:

  1. Make a Swap File
  2. Remove First Try Installation: rm -rf ~/.local/share/letsencrypt
  3. Install with this command: ./letsencrypt-auto -v -h

and LetsEncrypt is installed Ok.-