DNS service is NOT running Ubuntu 19.10

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Expected Behaviour:

DNS service should run

Actual Behaviour:

DNS service is NOT runnig

Debug Token:

w7zqbhneae

After an upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 19.10 FTL is not starting anymore.
Reconfiguring and new installation have not helped in any case.
Debug token attached.

I would be thankful for any help.
Thanks a lot.

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Ubuntu 19 is not a supported OS.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequesites/

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What does sudo systemctl status --full --no-pager pihole-FTL.service show?

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mattes@dns-vpn:~$ sudo systemctl status --full --no-pager pihole-FTL.service
[sudo] password for mattes:
â—Ź pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2020-04-05 01:01:04 CEST; 7h ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 12604 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Apr 05 01:01:02 dns-vpn systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Apr 05 01:01:03 dns-vpn pihole-FTL[12604]: Not running
Apr 05 01:01:03 dns-vpn su[12636]: (to pihole) root on none
Apr 05 01:01:03 dns-vpn su[12636]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Apr 05 01:01:04 dns-vpn pihole-FTL[12604]: dnsmasq: cannot access /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxd: No such file or directory
Apr 05 01:01:04 dns-vpn systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

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I finally got it back to work.

$ ll /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 3 19:24 /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxd -> /etc/dnsmasq.d-available/lxd

The file was linked to the not existing folder /etc/dnsmasq.d-available/. I removed the link and everything is running fine.

DanSharper: Thanks for your support. I love Pi-Hole for years and it was my first „big“ issue.

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Is this something new with lxd 4? We normally don't support virtualization on the host, most of the use cases are with Pi-hole virtualized as the guest.

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No idea. I don’t use virtualisation on this host, what makes it much more suspicious. But for what ever reason it happend, luckily it’s solved. :wink:

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1st. Thank you. This was 100% my issue and this solved it.

For clarity, I:

  1. sudo systemctl status --full --no-pager pihole-FTL.service
  2. Confirmed that it was getting stuck at LXD
  3. them just rm /etc/dnsmasq.d/lxd
  4. reboot

This happened to me when I updated from 18 to 20 (ubuntu).

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