DNS service not running and unable start

Hi Team,

I recently upgraded to Pi-hole Version v3.3 Web Interface Version v3.3 FTL Version v3.0
and ever since then, i have had problems with DNS and FTL starting.
I managed to resolve me FTL problems by running
#sudo service pihole-FTL restart

Now I just can't get DNS to start.

Output for below
root@Server:/# sudo service dnsmasq status
Please help.
● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/dnsmasq.service.d
└─50-dnsmasq-$named.conf, 50-insserv.conf-$named.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2018-02-24 13:04:51 AEDT; 5min ago
Process: 12013 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Feb 24 13:04:51 Server dnsmasq[12013]: dnsmasq: extraneous parameter at line 37 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Feb 24 13:04:51 Server systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 24 13:04:51 Server systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Feb 24 13:04:51 Server systemd[1]: Unit dnsmasq.service entered failed state.

Actual Behaviour:
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*** [ INITIALIZING ]
[i] 2018-02-24:13:00:37 debug log has been initialized.

*** [ INITIALIZING ] Sourcing setup variables
[i] Sourcing /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf...

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Core version
[i] Core: v3.3 (How do I update Pi-hole?)
[i] Branch: master
[i] Commit: v3.3-0-g1e87850

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Web version
[i] Web: v3.3 (How do I update Pi-hole?)
[i] Branch: master
[i] Commit: v3.3-0-ge48aa29

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: FTL version
[βœ“] FTL: v3.0

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: dnsmasq version
[i] 2.72

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: lighttpd version
[i] 1.4.35

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: php version
[i] 5.6.33

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Operating system
[βœ“] Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: SELinux
[i] SELinux not detected

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Processor
[i] x86_64

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Networking
[βœ“] IPv4 address(es) bound to the eth0 interface:
10.1.1.13/24 matches the IP found in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf

[βœ—] No IPv6 address(es) found on the eth0 interface.

[i] Default IPv4 gateway: 10.1.1.1

  • Pinging 10.1.1.1...
    [βœ“] Gateway responded.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Ports in use
[111] is in use by rpcbind
[1355] is in use by Plex
[139] is in use by smbd
[] is in use by
[21] is in use by proftpd
[22] is in use by sshd
[32400] is in use by Plex
[32469] is in use by Plex
[40411] is in use by rpc.statd
[445] is in use by smbd
[45829] is in use by rpc.statd
[8080] is in use by SABnzbd.p
[80] is in use by lighttpd
[8888] is in use by nginx
[2015] is in use by expressvp
[2812] is in use by monit
[32401] is in use by Plex
[32600] is in use by Plex
[33085] is in use by Plex
[4711] is in use by pihole-FTL

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Name resolution (IPv4) using a random blocked domain and a known ad-serving domain
shuf: /etc/pihole/gravity.list: No such file or directory
dig: '' is not a legal name (unexpected end of input)
[βœ—] Failed to resolve via localhost (127.0.0.1)
dig: '' is not a legal name (unexpected end of input)
[βœ—] Failed to resolve via Pi-hole (10.1.1.13)
[βœ“] doubleclick.com is 216.58.196.142 via a remote, public DNS server (8.8.8.8)

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[βœ—] dnsmasq daemon is failed
[βœ“] lighttpd daemon is active
[βœ“] pihole-FTL daemon is active

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Setup variables
PIHOLE_INTERFACE=eth0
IPV4_ADDRESS=10.1.1.13/24
IPV6_ADDRESS=
PIHOLE_DNS_1=208.67.222.222
PIHOLE_DNS_2=208.67.220.220
QUERY_LOGGING=true
INSTALL_WEB=true
LIGHTTPD_ENABLED=1

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Dashboard and block page
[βœ—] X-Header does not match or could not be retrieved.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 02:00:51 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.35

[βœ“] X-Pi-hole: The Pi-hole Web interface is working!

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Gravity list
ls: cannot access /etc/pihole/gravity.list: No such file or directory

head: cannot open β€˜/etc/pihole/gravity.list’ for reading: No such file or directory
-----head of gravity.list------

tail: cannot open β€˜/etc/pihole/gravity.list’ for reading: No such file or directory
-----tail of gravity.list------

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/pihole

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234 Feb 24 12:07 /etc/pihole/logrotate
/var/log/pihole.log {
su root root
daily
copytruncate
rotate 5
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
nomail
}
/var/log/pihole-FTL.log {
su root root
weekly
copytruncate
rotate 3
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
nomail
}

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/dnsmasq.d

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522 Feb 24 12:52 /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/gravity.list
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/black.list
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/local.list
localise-queries
no-resolv
cache-size=10000
log-queries=extra
log-facility=/var/log/pihole.log
local-ttl=2
log-async
server=208.67.222.222
server=208.67.220.220
interface=eth0

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/lighttpd

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3027 Feb 24 12:07 /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_auth",
"mod_expire",
"mod_compress",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_setenv",
"mod_rewrite"
)
server.document-root = "/var/www/html"
server.error-handler-404 = "pihole/index.php"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
accesslog.format = "%{%s}t|%V|%r|%s|%b"
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.lighttpd.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc", ".md", ".yml", ".ini" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"
include_shell "find /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled -name '*.conf' -a ! -name 'letsencrypt.conf' -printf 'include "%p"
' 2>/dev/null"
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/admin/" {

   setenv.add-response-header = (
       "X-Pi-hole" => "The Pi-hole Web interface is working!",
       "X-Frame-Options" => "DENY"
   )
   $HTTP["url"] =~ ".ttf$" {

       setenv.add-response-header = ( "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "*" )
   }

}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/admin/.(.*)" {
url.access-deny = ("")
}
include_shell "cat external.conf 2>/dev/null"

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/cron.d

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1496 Feb 24 12:07 /etc/cron.d/pihole
26 3 * * 7 root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity
00 00 * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once quiet
@reboot root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/pihole/logrotate
*/10 * * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local
32 12 * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote
@reboot root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote reboot

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /var/log/lighttpd

-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 3010 Feb 24 12:52 /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
2018-02-19 00:07:12: (server.c.1242) logfiles cycled UID = 0 PID = 1929
2018-02-19 00:59:00: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-19 08:02:11: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-19 23:00:02: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-20 00:02:11: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-20 00:59:01: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-20 08:02:10: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-20 22:00:58: (mod_fastcgi.c.2702) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: unlink(../custom_disable_timer): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/admin/api.php on line 47
2018-02-20 22:09:28: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-20 22:22:05: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-20 22:23:27: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-21 00:02:10: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-21 00:59:01: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-21 08:02:11: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-21 17:33:37: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-21 21:18:51: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-21 21:38:36: (mod_fastcgi.c.2702) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: unlink(../custom_disable_timer): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/admin/api.php on line 47
2018-02-21 21:40:42: (mod_fastcgi.c.2702) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: unlink(../custom_disable_timer): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/admin/api.php on line 47
2018-02-21 21:46:16: (mod_fastcgi.c.2702) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: unlink(../custom_disable_timer): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/admin/api.php on line 47
2018-02-21 22:26:53: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-23 17:57:23: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-23 22:24:23: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-24 00:02:10: (log.c.164) server started
2018-02-24 00:59:01: (server.c.1558) server stopped by UID = 0 PID = 1
2018-02-24 08:02:10: (log.c.164) server started

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /var/log

-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 5245 Feb 24 12:52 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806]
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] FTL branch: v3.0
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] FTL version: v3.0
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] FTL commit: a1b2fa03f8f3e3713b57a26a4e9a062fec0573d7
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] FTL date: 2018-02-14 12:45:47 -0800
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] FTL user: pihole
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] Notice: Found no readable FTL config file
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] Using default settings
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] Starting config file parsing (/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf)
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] SOCKET_LISTENING: only local
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] QUERY_DISPLAY: Show queries
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] AAAA_QUERY_ANALYSIS: Show AAAA queries
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] MAXDBDAYS: max age for stored queries is 365 days
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] RESOLVE_IPV6: Resolve IPv6 addresses
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] RESOLVE_IPV4: Resolve IPv4 addresses
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] DBINTERVAL: saving to DB file every minute
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] DBFILE: Using /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.806] MAXLOGAGE: Importing up to 24.0 hours of log data
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.807] Finished config file parsing
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.811] Found no other running pihole-FTL process
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.813] PID of FTL process: 5793
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.813] Error: failed to read /etc/pihole/list.preEventHorizon
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.813] Gravity list entries: -1
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.813] No blacklist present
[2018-02-24 12:51:58.813] No wildcard blocking list present

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole log
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnsmasq root 0 Feb 24 12:51 /var/log/pihole.log
-----head of pihole.log------



[βœ“] ** FINISHED DEBUGGING! **

Debug Token: Your debug token is: vii7rywji4

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I have this same issue with a fresh install.

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Having this exact same issue after an update last night, can't get to start dnsmasq for some reason.

[βœ“] Your debug token is: pnue5ldo7b

Update 2018-02-18 06:12
If you're running Raspbian Jessie and you updated Pi-hole to v3.3, you likely ran into issues. This is because the version of dnsmasq that ships with it does not support the log-queries=extra option, which we use in v3.3.

You have two options to resolve this: revert Pi-hole to a previous version or upgrade dnsmasq manually.

Continued at Pi-hole v3.3 Released: It's "Extra" Special

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Hi Dan,
Thanks for the information. unfortunately, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie).
I did try downgrading but it didn't work. Still getting
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[βœ—] dnsmasq daemon is failed

My new debug token is: kob7jlm7tb
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks
Oliver

Remove the line log-queries=extra from /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf

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Hi Dan,
Thanks, downgrading to 3.2.1 resolved my issue, next step is to upgrade dnsmasq manually and trying the upgrade again.

Thanks for you help!

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Hi Dan,

That did the job. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks again
Oliver

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