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A login session (under Jessie) running certbot -d example.com -d www.example.com froze, and when I tried to run Let's Encrypt's certbot from another session, it said, "Another instance of Certbot is already running." I did a kill -HUP on the still-running process, and tried to run certbot with a --config-dir argument among other things, and got the same error.

How can I ask for the first attempt to be forgotten?

Is there a lockfile I can delete?

Thanks,

Christos Hayward
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Here is a related post on the let's encrypt community site: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/solved-another-instance-of-certbot-is-already-running/44690

To restate the possible soultion: ps -ef | grep certb to find the PID, then kill it.

If it is not running, try to find .certbot.lock files, and delete them.

g_bor
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