Error during clean install of v4.0 (Ubuntu)

Terrin2k · August 8, 2018, 10:24pm

Because dhcpcd5 is in the apt repo.

~ D

deHakkelaar · August 8, 2018, 10:24pm

sudo apt install dhcpcd5

Terrin2k · August 8, 2018, 10:40pm

Well, I'm happy to say it installed. The only problem is it can't seem to get the latest version of FTL from github, for some reason:

  [i] FTL Checks...
  [✓] Detected ARM-hf architecture (armv7+)
  [i] Checking for existing FTL binary...
  [✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
  Error: Unable to get latest release location from GitHub
  [✗] FTL Engine not installed
  [i] man not installed
  [i] Systemd-resolved is not enabled
  [✓] Starting lighttpd service
  [✓] Enabling lighttpd service to start on reboot
  [i] Restarting services...
  [i] Starting pihole-FTL service...
  Unable to complete update, please contact Pi-hole Support

Progress!

~ T

deHakkelaar · August 8, 2018, 10:41pm

Hahahahaha ... probably same issue I had earlier today:

Except you need to run the installer again instead of "pihole -up".

Terrin2k · August 8, 2018, 10:43pm

I have to step away from the machinery for a bit, but I'll give a try later this evening and post my results.

~ T

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 1:58am

So... that allowed the install to proceed, but left me unable to resolve hostnames. (can't apt-get anything) Also, none of the pihole processes appear to be running, and if I go to the admin page, I get either a 403 forbidden, or my browser asks me if I want to download 'index.php'. Yay.

~ D

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 2:03am

OK, another step in peeling the onion. Apparently the pihole-FTL service is attempting to start, then exiting immediately.

Doing systemctl status pihole-FTL.service yields:

● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2018-08-09 01:57:51 UTC; 2min 30s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 1026)
   CGroup: /system.slice/pihole-FTL.service

Aug 09 01:57:49 sparhawk systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Aug 09 01:57:49 sparhawk pihole-FTL[3790]: Not running
Aug 09 01:57:50 sparhawk pihole-FTL[3790]: chown: cannot access '/etc/pihole/dhcp.leases': No such file or directory
Aug 09 01:57:50 sparhawk su[3822]: Successful su for pihole by root
Aug 09 01:57:50 sparhawk su[3822]: + ??? root:pihole
Aug 09 01:57:50 sparhawk su[3822]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Aug 09 01:57:51 sparhawk pihole-FTL[3790]: dnsmasq: illegal repeated keyword at line 35 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Aug 09 01:57:51 sparhawk su[3822]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user pihole
Aug 09 01:57:51 sparhawk systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:08am

OK, at least it is to a point where I can create a debug token.

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Thanks to all for the fantastic assistance today. I'm very excited about getting this running again.

~ T

deHakkelaar · August 9, 2018, 3:32am

cat -n /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf

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Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:34am

On it.

ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ cat -n /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
     1  # Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
     2  # (c) 2015, 2016 by Jacob Salmela
     3  # Network-wide ad blocking via your Raspberry Pi
     4  # http://pi-hole.net
     5  # dnsmasq config for Pi-hole
     6  #
     7  # Pi-hole is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     8  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     9  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
    10  # (at your option) any later version.
    11
    12  ###############################################################################
    13  #      FILE AUTOMATICALLY POPULATED BY PI-HOLE INSTALL/UPDATE PROCEDURE.      #
    14  # ANY CHANGES MADE TO THIS FILE AFTER INSTALL WILL BE LOST ON THE NEXT UPDATE #
    15  #                                                                             #
    16  #        IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE THE UPSTREAM SERVERS, CHANGE THEM IN:          #
    17  #                      /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf                             #
    18  #                                                                             #
    19  #        ANY OTHER CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE IN A SEPERATE CONFIG FILE           #
    20  #                        OR IN /etc/dnsmasq.conf                              #
    21  ###############################################################################
    22
    23  addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/gravity.list
    24  addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/black.list
    25  addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/local.list
    26
    27
    28  localise-queries
    29
    30
    31  no-resolv
    32
    33
    34
    35  cache-size=10000
    36
    37  log-queries=extra
    38  log-facility=/var/log/pihole.log
    39
    40  local-ttl=2
    41
    42  log-async
    43  server=8.8.8.8
    44  server=8.8.4.4
    45  interface=eth0

~ T

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:36am

I see this also:

ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ sudo systemctl status dnsmasq -l
● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-08-08 20:45:02 CDT; 1h 46min ago

Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk dnsmasq[1049]: dnsmasq: illegal repeated keyword at line 35 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk dnsmasq[1049]: illegal repeated keyword at line 35 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk dnsmasq[1049]: FAILED to start up
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 08 20:45:02 sparhawk systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
ubuntu@sparhawk:~$

deHakkelaar · August 9, 2018, 3:40am

I dont see anything wrong on line 35.
And your config file looks exactly like mine.
Have no idea whats going on.

Thats from yesterday ... think its of no concern and latest Pi-hole isnt using dnsmasq anymore.

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:43am

OK, I edited /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf and commented out line 35 (cache-size=10000) and then did a pihole restartdns. This seems to have worked!

A couple of other notes: I wasn't getting the admin page to show up. Turns out my BBB distro had the nginx webserver running already. I had to uninstall it and kill the running nginx processes, then allow pihole to restart lighttpd, which got the admin interface up and working.

Only thing that isn't working now is the admin interface is complaining that FTL is offline and 'Lost connection to API'.

More progress!

~ T

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:46am

It's still Aug 8 where I am located.

~ T

deHakkelaar · August 9, 2018, 3:47am

sudo netstat -nltp | grep ':471'

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And if that yields no results:

sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL -l

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Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 3:49am

Kind of wonder if I just need to reboot the thing and hope everything runs like it's supposed to...

~ T

ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ sudo netstat -nltp | grep ':471'
ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL -l
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2018-08-08 22:26:38 CDT; 21min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 1026)
   CGroup: /system.slice/pihole-FTL.service

Aug 08 22:26:37 sparhawk systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Aug 08 22:26:37 sparhawk pihole-FTL[10415]: Not running
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk su[10438]: Successful su for pihole by root
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk su[10438]: + ??? root:pihole
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk su[10438]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk pihole-FTL[10415]: dnsmasq: illegal repeated keyword at line 35 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk su[10438]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user pihole
Aug 08 22:26:38 sparhawk systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

deHakkelaar · August 9, 2018, 3:49am

Thats weird as systemctl status pihole-FTL.service was showing date from "Aug 09 01:57:49"

Check timezone:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

And maybe reboot after to be sure.

EDIT: ohw and check for duplicates:

grep cache-size -R /etc/dnsmasq.*

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 4:06am

My bad. Since this is a fresh install, I didn't change the tzdata until in the middle of all this tinkering, which should explain any timestamp oddness. Sorry!

ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ grep cache-size -R /etc/dnsmasq.*
/etc/dnsmasq.conf:#cache-size=150
/etc/dnsmasq.d/SoftAp0:cache-size=2048
/etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf:#cache-size=10000

~ T

deHakkelaar · August 9, 2018, 4:07am

That file doesnt belong to Pi-hole.
Can hash out that entry and better check what else is configured in that file ?

Terrin2k · August 9, 2018, 4:10am

I think this file ships with the BBB installer so that users can get WLAN up and running quickly(?). I don't have a problem deleting it...

For posterity, here are its contents:
ubuntu@sparhawk:~$ cat /etc/dnsmasq.d/SoftAp0
interface=usb0
interface=usb1
port=53
dhcp-authoritative
domain-needed
bogus-priv
expand-hosts
cache-size=2048
dhcp-range=usb0,192.168.7.1,192.168.7.1,2m
dhcp-range=usb1,192.168.6.1,192.168.6.1,2m
listen-address=127.0.0.1
listen-address=192.168.7.2
listen-address=192.168.6.2
dhcp-option=usb0,3
dhcp-option=usb0,6
dhcp-option=usb1,3
dhcp-option=usb1,6
dhcp-leasefile=/var/run/dnsmasq.leases

I'll comment out the cache-size here and uncomment the one in the pihole conf.

Still can't get FTL to run, even after a reboot.

~ T