Self hosted error ("The [certbot/certbot] container image used by this script is no longer associated with any containers...")

With self hosted , I have recently started getting the error: “The [certbot/certbot] container image used by this script is no longer associated with any containers. Would you like to purge it? (y/N)” when either starting Bitwarden or updating it even after following the Manual update instructionshttps://bitwarden.com/help/certificates/ . Is anyone else getting this? OS is Debian 12 and using Docker’s repo.

Edit: It looks like this prompt was added in commit 79ef3523 in GitHub - bitwarden/self-host: Bitwarden's self-hosted release repository , although I don’t think filtering on ancestor=certbot/certbot is the correct approach for this as when using the normal instructions for setting up certbot, I don’t think anything gets associated to the base certbot docker image.

yep same issue here, my daily updates were breaking due to this change because some ■■■■■■■ thought it would be a good idea to ask questions in the middle of a script that has never asked questions before, and they didn’t even have the decency to give us a flag to skip it. FAIL!

why is it purging the certbot container anyhow? You then have to download it again next time you run this script.

I’m having the same issue. We have a nightly cron for updating Bitwarden which is broken now because of this prompt.

Experiencing the same thing here.

Piping a “y” character to the bitwarden.sh script seems to have worked around the issue for me. Annoying that they didn’t provide a “force” or “quiet” flag for script operation.

We are facing the same issue :frowning:

Hi

I’m facing the same issue.
Has anyone figured who to get rid of this annoying prompt ?

This issue has been ongoing for over three weeks now.

My instance upgraded to 2026.1.0 last night and yet again I woke up to a non functioning server due to this problem.

Can anyone please provide a timeline of when this will be fixed?

Did any of you contact Bitwarden support and/or reported it on GitHub?

I reported it three weeks ago: run.sh pauses if the certbot container image doesn't have an ancestor · Issue #451 · bitwarden/self-host · GitHub

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Hi everyone, this should be resolved in 2026.1.1, thanks for your patience!

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