Black.list - failed to load names

[maecus]

The install log has:

Jul 2 20:22:01 dnsmasq[14323]: failed to load names from /etc/pihole/black.list: No such file or directory.

hosts, local.list, and gravity.list all were read ok.

I've tried pihole -g and -r, and besides the about all looks ok.

If this is a problem, here is the debug:

Your debug token is: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/rk2wgbhyjx

Thanks

[RamSet]

That's really strange ... I do see several of those entries ...

   Jul  2 19:13:46 dnsmasq[9693]: failed to load names from /etc/pihole/local.list: No such file or directory
   Jul  2 19:13:46 dnsmasq[9693]: failed to load names from /etc/pihole/black.list: No such file or directory
   Jul  2 19:13:46 dnsmasq[9693]: failed to load names from /etc/pihole/gravity.list: No such file or directory

and then, 10 seconds later:

   Jul  2 19:13:56 dnsmasq[9693]: failed to load names from /etc/pihole/black.list: No such file or directory
   Jul  2 19:13:56 dnsmasq[9693]: read /etc/pihole/gravity.list - 114932 addresses

What's the output of sudo ls -l /etc/pihole

[DL6ER]

If there is no blacklist (and has never been), this file will not exist and this message just says that. There is nothing wrong.

To the second post:
After a fresh install, phole-FTL may already start up before pihole -g finishes. In this case none of the lists exist. Once the initial run of pihole -g finishes, it reloads the lists and you see only the one remaining message that there is no black list file.

TL;DR: No error to be seen here. Everything is fine.

[maecus]

Great -- thanks.