# Dnsmasq fails on Pi-hole 3.3

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** v3-3\
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161 "2018-02-14T22:04:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/1 "2018-02-14T22:04:14Z")

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This release seems to have killed dnsmasq for me.

```
Feb 14 21:57:26 chloe systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...
Feb 14 21:57:26 chloe dnsmasq[9450]: dnsmasq: extraneous parameter at line 42 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Feb 14 21:57:26 chloe dnsmasq[9450]: extraneous parameter at line 42 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Feb 14 21:57:26 chloe dnsmasq[9450]: FAILED to start up
Feb 14 21:57:26 chloe systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 14 21:57:27 chloe systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Feb 14 21:57:27 chloe systemd[1]: Unit dnsmasq.service entered failed state.

```

And line 42 is

`log-facility=/var/log/pihole.log`

Any idea's?

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/2 "2018-02-14T22:06:03Z")

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Can you try a `pihole -r` and if it's still failing, post the entire contents of the configuration file.

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/3 "2018-02-14T22:11:48Z")

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Still failing after a repair, here is my config file - [https://pastebin.com/tEqmRtbH](https://pastebin.com/tEqmRtbH)

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/4 "2018-02-14T22:13:44Z")

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Thanks, what does the full output from `dnsmasq --version` show?

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/5 "2018-02-14T22:14:19Z")

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Dnsmasq version 2.72

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/6 "2018-02-14T22:15:07Z")

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What OS and release? Can you run `pihole -d` and get us the debug token please?

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/7 "2018-02-14T22:18:01Z")

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jessie 8.10

piwz0rj7zc

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/8 "2018-02-14T22:22:06Z")

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Debian Jessie should have version ~~2.73~~ of dnsmasq, have you updated the OS and installed the latest packages? We need 2.73 for the extra logging facility.

Edit, sorry looks like it's 2.72-3 and not 2.73.

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/9 "2018-02-14T22:28:14Z")

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Everything is up to date and looking at the Debian jessie repo 2.72 is the latest.

```
apt-cache policy dnsmasq
dnsmasq:
  Installed: 2.72-3+deb8u2
  Candidate: 2.72-3+deb8u2
  Version table:
 *** 2.72-3+deb8u2 0
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

```

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/10 "2018-02-14T22:37:43Z")

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I updated my post to reflect that, is it possible to update to Stretch from Jessie on your install?

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/11 "2018-02-14T22:39:36Z")

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No my VPS host does not support Stretch yet.

How can I roll back as pihole checkout core doesn't allow me to go back to 3.2.1.

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/12 "2018-02-14T23:09:45Z")

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We're working on getting a solution for people that are locked in to Jessie and can't update. It should allow you to roll back to a previous version.

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/13 "2018-02-14T23:13:53Z")

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Can you give the below a go and see if that reverts you to a working version?

```auto
cd /etc/.pihole
sudo git checkout v3.2.1
cd /var/www/html/admin
sudo git checkout v3.2.1
pihole -r
pihole checkout ftl v2.13.2

```

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/14 "2018-02-14T23:21:30Z")

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That has worked. Dnsmasq is now starting without any errors and I can now do a dnslookup.

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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/15 "2018-02-14T23:22:47Z")

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Good to hear, we should have a better solution coming up in a bit but for now just hold off on upgrading as we need a more current version of dnsmasq.

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**Author:** ![norrkin](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@norrkin](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/norrkin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/16 "2018-02-14T23:27:36Z")

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k, happy to help if you need anything.

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**Author:** ![profzimm](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@profzimm](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/profzimm)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/17 "2018-02-15T08:43:59Z")

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Unfortunately this has not resolved this issue for me but I'll give it another go after I've had some sleep.

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**Author:** ![Ondrej](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/df705f/32.png) [@Ondrej](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Ondrej)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/18 "2018-02-15T10:12:50Z")

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Not working ☹

- issue after revert complete web is slower and shows totaly data :-((

after updating, the system is somewhat slowed down and, in addition, poorly displays statistics.

I had previously set from 00:00 to 23:59 - 1 day and now it started running in 24 hours ☹

[https://snag.gy/aTFwri.jpg](https://snag.gy/aTFwri.jpg)

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**Author:** ![techdanger](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/techdanger/32/2795_2.png) [@techdanger](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/techdanger)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/19 "2018-02-15T12:22:23Z")

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i'm also have problem here...fresh install on raspberrypi.DNSMasq unable to start on option

```
   log-queries=extra

```

for working it need to be commented...

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**Author:** ![techdanger](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/techdanger/32/2795_2.png) [@techdanger](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/techdanger)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-fails-on-pi-hole-3-3/7161/20 "2018-02-15T12:47:07Z")

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hi...

fresh install from raspberry pi pihole + dnscrypt..still using default config.seem everything running good but no queries appear on dashboard

[✓] Your debug token is: ht9o13lk29

i have test that my network DNS pointed to raspberry pi IP addr and when i'm test using dnsleak all resolver are correct

need an enlightment here...thank you...

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