Sudo certbot certonly --apache error + jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)

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My domain is: tint.edu.in and livephysicsnmaths.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --apache

It produced this output: jq: error (at :0): Cannot iterate over null (null)

My web server is (include version):
Server version: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2018-10-03T14:41:08

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

certbot -v
jq: error (at :0): Cannot iterate over null (null)

I installed SSL Certificate for tint.edu.in … it was OK (last month).
Now there is another virtual host running on the server - livephysicsnmaths.com . I need to create certificate for this domain also. Now whenever I run sudo certbot certonly --apache … it says jq: error (at :0): Cannot iterate over null (null)

Please help.

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

$ snap version
snap    2.34.2+18.04
snapd   2.34.2+18.04
series  16
ubuntu  18.04
kernel  4.15.0-32-generic

$ sudo certbot --nginx
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)
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Hey, I really appreciate you posting those details, thanks.

We still haven’t released a fix for this yet, but for now, you can fix this by upgrading snapd to the latest version available in Ubuntu 18.04 (currently 2.45):

sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade snapd
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