letsencrypt-auto failed

[rgeist]

Hello, i tried to re-install the letsencrypt-certificate to my apache/debian system using the following commands:

cd /opt/letsencrypt
git pull
./letsencrypt-auto --apache -d www.geisterwolke.de -d rgst02.synserver.de

The Error Message I get ist this:

Command /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-lkvWHu-build/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('
', '
'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-9vHfqW-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-lkvWHu-build

Oh no! Peep had a problem while trying to do stuff. Please write up a bug report
with the specifics so we can fix it:

https://github.com/erikrose/peep/issues/new

Here are some particulars you can copy and paste into the bug report:

---

peep: (3, 0, 0)
python: '2.7.9 (default, Mar 1 2015, 12:57:24)
[GCC 4.9.2]'
pip: '1.5.6'
Command line: ['/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py', 'install', '-r', '/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/letsencrypt-auto-requirements.txt']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py", line 958, in
exit(main())
File "/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py", line 930, in main
return commandsargv[1]
File "/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py", line 882, in peep_install
req.install()
File "/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py", line 650, in install
run_pip(['install'] + other_args + ['--no-deps', '-U', archive_path])
File "/tmp/tmp.5fj0uX33xp/peep.py", line 204, in run_pip
status_code = pip.main(initial_args)
File "/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/init.py", line 248, in main
return command.main(cmd_args)
File "/root/.local/share/letsencrypt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main
text = '
'.join(complete_log)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 54: ordinal not in range(128)

[edmorley]

This is an issue with pip rather than peep (contrary to what the output tries to imply :-)), it would seem there are a number of issues in pip's tracker related to this:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?q=is%3Aissue+unicodeDecodeError+ascii+codec+ordinal+not+in+range

It appears that setting LC_ALL=C in the environment you may be able to work around this pip bug:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26473681/pip-install-numpy-throws-an-error-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xe2#comment41585583_26473681

If that fixes the problem, could you file an issue against the letsencrypt tracker to add this to their FAQs?

Closing this since it's either an issue with pip or letsencrypt's bootstrapping process, rather than peep :-)

[rgeist]

Sorry for writing to the wrong tracker, I used the address given in the error message of the letsencrypt-script.

[edmorley]

Yeah it's not your fault - the message really was misleading! At least that part should be fixed soon :-)

[edmorley]

At least that part should be fixed soon :-)

Actually I tell a lie, #118 didn't cover UnicodeDecodeError().
I've filed #122 for making sure peep doesn't show this misleading "file an issue" error for this case.