DNS Service not running,tcp:127.0.0.1:53 is in use by named

Pi-hole needs port 53. A different port won't work as intended.

You have another service running on port 53 (the service is called named).

[✗] tcp:192.168.178.115:53 is in use by named 

You need to stop and disabled named, then restart Pi-hole:

sudo systemctl stop named
sudo systemctl disable named
sudo systemctl restart pihole-FTL
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