Error updating Pihole (Downloading and Installing FTL Error: URL not found)

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Expected Behaviour:

Expected the pihole to update

Actual Behaviour:

The same error shown here Error while updating Pi Hole although my version is a little different

The suggested solution below did not work:
echo "FTLDNS" | sudo tee /etc/pihole/ftlbranch
pihole checkout core FTLDNS
pihole checkout web FTLDNS

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -up
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] FTL: update available

[i] FTL out of date

[i] FTL Checks...
[i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 4707)
[✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: URL not found
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -v
Pi-hole version is v3.3.1-369-g169a428 (Latest: v4.0)
AdminLTE version is v3.3-238-g8c7521f3 (Latest: v4.0)
FTL version is vDev-3e40158 (Latest: v4.0)

I also ran the suggested updates to no avail

Debug Token:

Debug token is 1rldwwvm28

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v4.0 is on GitHub now, try running pihole checkout master and you should move up to the latest release. The FTL branch is being decommissioned.

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I tried this and got the error below. Tried apt-get update with no luck. It has an issue with an unrelated package (Open VPN). Would this be related?

[i] Existing PHP installation detected : PHP version 7.0.30-0+deb9u1
[i] Performing unattended setup, no whiptail dialogs will be displayed
[✓] Disk space check

[✗] Update local cache of available packages
Error: Unable to update package cache. Please try "apt-get update" Error: Unable to complete update, please contact support

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I removed Open VPN and had some luck. I now get this error

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -up
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] FTL: update available

[i] FTL out of date

[i] FTL Checks...
[i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
[✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: URL not found

New debug token is em3mrwqd8i

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Can you please post the output from pihole -v for the currently installed versions, a copy of /etc/resolv.conf and then try to update again?

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Pi-hole version is v4.0 (Latest: v4.0)
AdminLTE version is v4.0 (Latest: v4.0)
FTL version is vDev-8493df4 (Latest: v4.0)

Generated by resolvconf

nameserver 127.0.0.1

New debug token 5k8dtb5o23

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You have everything but the FTL binary, and it may be from the /etc/pihole/ftlbranch file, remove that file sudo rm /etc/pihole/ftlbranch and then run pihole checkout master again to see if that will install all the programs.

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Didn't make a difference unfortunately. Removed ftlbranch, checked out master again but still no juice. Same 404 error when running pihole -up and showing an update

pi@raspberrypi:/etc $ sudo rm /etc/pihole/ftlbranch
pi@raspberrypi:/etc $ pihole checkout master
Please note that changing branches severely alters your Pi-hole subsystems
Features that work on the master branch, may not on a development branch
This feature is NOT supported unless a Pi-hole developer explicitly asks!
Have you read and understood this? [y/N] y

[i] Shortcut "master" detected - checking out master branches...
[i] Pi-hole core
[✓] Switching to branch: 'master' from 'refs/heads/master'
[i] Already up-to-date.
[i] Web interface
[✓] Switching to branch: 'master' from 'refs/heads/master'
[i] Already up-to-date.
[✓] Detected ARM-hf architecture (armv7+)
[✓] Installing FTL
pi@raspberrypi:/etc $ pihole -up
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] FTL: update available

[i] FTL out of date

[i] FTL Checks...
[i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
[✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: URL not found

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The 404 error seems to be coming from GitHub and we're not sure why exactly it is happening. They do limit the number of API calls per time period, but I would think an attempt spaced out would pass through. Can you run a new pihole -d and get us the token just to check on things in general?

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Almost same problem cannot find url . No data on dash . Footer on webpage: Pi-hole Version v4.0 Web Interface Version v4.0 FTL Version vDev (master , vDev-8493df4 ) Donate if you found this useful.

Debug uploaded my token 4v0m08q7q6

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Same issue. My debug token is ieo9yuc2zb.

Thank you!

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Can you all run this successfully on the Pi-hole devices?

cd /tmp
curl -sSL https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/download/v4.0/pihole-FTL-arm-linux-gnueabihf -o pihole-FTL
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Yes, the curl works successfully. Creates pihole-FTL in /tmp.

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And the update still fails? Trying to figure out why the 404 is occurring.

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Sure, the token is kmhu36k9ek

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Yes, still fails.

pihole -up
[i] Checking for updates...
[i] Pi-hole Core: up to date
[i] FTL: update available

[i] FTL out of date

[i] FTL Checks...
[i] Downloading and Installing FTL...curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
[✗] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: URL not found

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The curl command was successful for me as well. Thanks

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Okay, this will get rather verbose, but try running:

sudo bash -x /etc/.pihole/automated\ install/basic-install.sh

Again, it's going to output a lot of lines on the terminal, but this will let us see exactly what URL is being called for.

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Output:

  • return 0

  • [[ true == true ]]

  • getGitFiles /var/www/html/admin GitHub - pi-hole/web: Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more

  • local directory=/var/www/html/admin

  • local remoteRepo=GitHub - pi-hole/web: Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more

  • local 'str=Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin'

  • echo -ne ' [i] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin...'
    [i] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin...+ is_repo /var/www/html/admin

  • local directory=/var/www/html/admin

  • local curdir

  • local rc

  • curdir=/tmp

  • [[ -d /var/www/html/admin ]]

  • cd /var/www/html/admin

  • git status --short

  • cd /tmp

  • return 0

  • echo -e '\r [✓] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin'
    [✓] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin

  • update_repo /var/www/html/admin

  • local directory=/var/www/html/admin

  • local curdir

  • local 'str=Update repo in /var/www/html/admin'

  • curdir=/tmp

  • cd /var/www/html/admin

  • echo -ne ' [i] Update repo in /var/www/html/admin...'
    [i] Update repo in /var/www/html/admin...+ git stash --all --quiet

  • git clean --quiet --force -d

  • git pull --quiet

  • return 128

  • echo -e '\n Error: Could not update local repository. Contact support.'

    Error: Could not update local repository. Contact support.

  • exit 1

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Okay, one of your issues is that you still are on web version 3.x. Try the following:

cd /var/www/html/admin
sudo git status

And lets see about solving that portion.