acme troubleshooting: how to fix errored challenges

[jplitza]

I was looking for how to proceed if a Challenge is in "errored" state with the details pointing to a timeout. But all I could find in the troubleshooting guide (or really, The Internet) was what underlying problems could be in case Challenges or Orders are stuck in "pending". Thus, I deleted the Challenge, and a new one appeared. So maybe it should be mentioned that deleting Challenges is safe.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds guidance for handling ACME challenges that are in an "errored" state by documenting that it's safe to delete errored challenges, which will trigger cert-manager to create new ones and retry the process.

• Adds documentation explaining that errored challenges can be safely deleted for retry behavior

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The word 'State' should be lowercase as it refers to the status field rather than a proper noun.

Suggested change

	In case your Challenge is in the State "errored", once you resolved the underlying issue, you can safely delete it. cert-manager will then request a new Challenge and retry.
	In case your Challenge is in the state "errored", once you resolved the underlying issue, you can safely delete it. cert-manager will then request a new Challenge and retry.