Unable to get new certs, "error creating new cert" 500 error

[Patches]

@jsha there are also reports of continied 500s in another thread, which might be related.

From @mnordhoff in production:

@mnordhoff

My domain is: mnrd.us, mattnordhoff.net, mattnordhoff.com

I ran this command: sudo -H certbot renew --dry-run

It produced this output: “Attempting to renew cert (mnrd.us) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/mnrd.us.conf produced an unexpected error: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:serverInternal :: The server experienced an internal error :: Error finalizing order. Skipping.” (Or the same for other certificates.)

@mnordhoff

I just ran some "certbot renew --dry-run"s. 19 certificates succeeded, 1 failed with “Error finalizing order”.

and with staging from @larryboymi:

@larryboymi

Experienced it today, against staging. It was mostly sporadically but couldn’t place it. After awhile I couldn’t make it happen, but definitely experienced it some.

@larryboymi

Sure @Patches, it was “larry-a.com” which I have for testing purposes (and experienced these errors last weekend). Thanks!

EDIT: I missed that the second reproducer hadn't tried again since last weekend so this one may not be useful (unless it's a totally different issue).