From time to time I see this in our logs: Dec 07 20:22:47 alice.hatters.org.uk systemd[1]: Failed to start Service for snap application certbot.renew. In the letsencrypt log for that time, I see: 2025-12-07 20:22:47,047:DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org:443 "GET /a…

Occassional failed start for certbot.renew snap

gilgongo December 9, 2025, 4:10pm 5

AH yes, I'd forgotten all about that from a few years ago. Well spotted. The error may well be fine.

I guess I'm just paranoid

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