Letsencrypt-auto fails at installing python-augeas on Ubuntu 14.04

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My domain is: mail.yoderhome.com

I ran this command: letsencrypt-auto

It produced this output:

My operating system is (include version):
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

My web server is (include version):
nginx 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.7

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
self-hosted

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

Note: python-augeas seems to be a new Python module, according to pypi. I filed a bug report against Augeas as well: https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/issues/457

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hi @greenmoss

How did you install Letsencrypt-auto

Can you also run

pip freeze

Looke like a package issue.

Andrei

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I installed a while ago, so I don’t really remember how I did it, sorry. Should I install it again?

Looking at log output, I’m guessing it’s setting up its own Python virtual environment. Here’s pip freeze:

# source /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/activate
(letsencrypt)root@birch:~# pip freeze
acme==0.12.0
appdirs==1.4.3
asn1crypto==0.22.0
certbot==0.12.0
cffi==1.10.0
ConfigArgParse==0.11.0
configobj==5.0.6
cryptography==1.8.1
enum34==1.1.6
funcsigs==1.0.2
future==0.16.0
idna==2.5
ipaddress==1.0.18
letsencrypt==0.7.0
mock==2.0.0
packaging==16.8
parsedatetime==2.3
pbr==2.0.0
pycparser==2.17
pyOpenSSL==16.2.0
pyparsing==2.2.0
pyRFC3339==1.0
pytz==2017.2
requests==2.13.0
six==1.10.0
zope.component==4.3.0
zope.event==4.2.0
zope.interface==4.3.3
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@greenmoss

when running letsencrypt-auto, run it with the switch below

–no-self-upgrade (certbot-auto only) prevent the certbot-auto script
from upgrading itself to newer released versions
(default: Upgrade automatically)

in terms of the augeas package it has a pre-requisite on libxml so try installing that first. It should be a package that’s already installed

apt-get libxml

If that doesn’t work build a separate environment with certbot 11.1.0

Andrei

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The python-augeas errors are a known issue with an upstream release of python-augeas that has problems. People who had their certbot-auto auto-update may have encountered this bug, through no fault of their own. Some of the developers told me earlier today that if they let certbot-auto auto-update once again, the problem should now be fixed.

If not, please let me know and I’ll pass the error report along.

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Thanks @schoen. I checked pypi and it’s still 1.0.0. As expected, this doesn’t work. I will keep an eye on it for the next pypi release, and try again then.

Ref: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-augeas/1.0.0

EDIT/FIX
The python-augeas code is up on Github, but not yet released to pypi. I didn’t feel like waiting, so here’s what I did that worked:

source /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/activate
pip install git+https://github.com/hercules-team/python-augeas

It’s working, and my certificate is renewed. Thanks!

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Hi @greenmoss,

@erica is looking for some information about affected systems

I'm not sure if your data will still be helpful since you've fixed the problem, but it might be.

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The data will definitely still be helpful! sha256sum letsencrypt-auto && certbot --version is the most important information for us.

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(crossposting in this thread)

To anyone else who might be hitting this issue:

You are likely using an old version of letsencrypt-auto from before we pinned versions of python-augeas. Replacing that script with https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto (or downloading from any other certbot source) and running as before should fix this issue.

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$ sha256sum letsencrypt-auto && certbot --version
81be5fb894f840a306be318a4d1ddd512713f90443c067ed49179b92f8c68785  letsencrypt-auto
certbot: command not found
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Update! python-augeas 1.0.2, now on pypi, removes the additional OS dependency and fixes this issue, even for the oldest versions of letsencrypt-auto.

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