snap does not work anymore on LXC containers (Debian 10)

[zorrobiwan]

I've a couple of containers running Debian 10 and certbot installed via snap

Since a couple of weeks, certbot is not working anymore. Last certificate generation is around December 22nd and it fails to renew (and yes we are the 21st ... 3 months later)

certbot renew
aa_is_enabled() failed unexpectedly (No such file or directory): No such file or directory

I found a thread on Redit but not so much information
https://www.reddit.com/r/letsencryp..._failed_unexpectedly_no_such_file_or/hz1i9at/

I'll test a workaround to remove snap version of certbot and install pip one but solving this could be useful for anyone else.

Help would be appreciated.

Pascal

 

[Pierre-Yves]

Hello
Same problem
Uninstall certbot thru snap and install it directly (Debian 10 with nginx reverse proxy)

snap remove certbot
apt install certbot
apt install python3-certbot-nginx

reboot of the container

certbot renew

All my certificates have been renewed
Hope it will work for you

 

[zorrobiwan]

I've installed it through pip since a couple of days and it's working well too now.

Thx for you reply

 

[Riesling.Dry]

Merci, @Pierre-Yves !

For Apache2 accordingly:

snap remove certbot
apt -y install certbot
apt install python3-certbot-apache
[reboot container]
certbot --apache