Some challenges have failed

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Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.

certbot 1.21.0

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An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many failed authorizations recently: see Failed Validation Limit - Let's Encrypt

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py", line 90, in handle_authorizations
self._poll_authorizations(authzrs, max_retries, best_effort)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py", line 178, in _poll_authorizations
raise errors.AuthorizationError('Some challenges have failed.')
certbot.errors.AuthorizationError: Some challenges have failed.

2023-10-13 00:42:10,115:DEBUG:certbot._internal.error_handler:Calling registered functions
2023-10-13 00:42:10,117:INFO:certbot._internal.auth_handler:Cleaning up challenges
2023-10-13 00:42:10,955:DEBUG:certbot._internal.log:Exiting abnormally:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/certbot", line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point('certbot==1.21.0', 'console_scripts', 'certbot')())
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/main.py", line 15, in main
return internal_main.main(cli_args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 1574, in main
return config.func(config, plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 1434, in certonly
lineage = _get_and_save_cert(le_client, config, domains, certname, lineage)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/main.py", line 133, in _get_and_save_cert
lineage = le_client.obtain_and_enroll_certificate(domains, certname)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 459, in obtain_and_enroll_certificate
cert, chain, key, _ = self.obtain_certificate(domains)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 389, in obtain_certificate
orderr = self._get_order_and_authorizations(csr.data, self.config.allow_subset_of_names)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/client.py", line 439, in _get_order_and_authorizations
authzr = self.auth_handler.handle_authorizations(orderr, self.config, best_effort)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py", line 90, in handle_authorizations
self._poll_authorizations(authzrs, max_retries, best_effort)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/certbot/_internal/auth_handler.py", line 178, in _poll_authorizations
raise errors.AuthorizationError('Some challenges have failed.')
certbot.errors.AuthorizationError: Some challenges have failed.
2023-10-13 00:42:10,959:ERROR:certbot._internal.log:Some challenges have failed.

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As described by the link in that error message you are only allowed 5 failed cert requests per hostname, per account, per hour.

So, what is important is to know the errors that happened before this.

Even better would be to use the Let's Encrypt staging system so you do not run into these production system rate limits.

Would you please show the Certbot command you were using including the actual domain names?

We can instruct how to use the Staging system so we can reproduce the error now and avoid continuing rate limit problems.

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Perhaps showing the complete log file may help clear up what is going wrong.
OR
As it says, re-run certbot with -v for more details.
[then show that log file]

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