Failed to restart pihole-FTL.service

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I am now seeing this as well:

[✗] Job for dnsmasq.service failed. See 'systemctl status dnsmasq.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
pihole-FTL: no process found

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Pi-hole version is v3.3 (Latest: v3.3)
AdminLTE version is v3.3 (Latest: v3.3)
FTL version is v3.0 (Latest: v3.0)

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Run pihole -d for a debug token and share the output of:

sudo service dnsmasq status
sudo service pihole-FTL status
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sudo service dnsmasq status

  • 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 Wed 2018-02-21 17:54:23 CST; 22h ago
    Process: 5750 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

sudo service pihole-FTL status

  • pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL)
    Active: inactive (dead)

[✓] Your debug token is: kndt5slv66

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Sorry, I've been busy for the last few days. Can you make a new debug token?
What is the output of pihole -g?

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Sorry for the delay.

Your debug token is: hyy3i9y4m3

pihole -g

[i] Neutrino emissions detected...
[✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts)
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: mirror1.malwaredomains.com (justdomains)
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: sysctl.org (hosts)
[✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: zeustracker.abuse.ch (blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist)
[✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_tracking.txt)
[✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_ad.txt)
[✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (ad_servers.txt)
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[✓] Consolidating blocklists
[✓] Extracting domains from blocklists
[i] Number of domains being pulled in by gravity: 146697
[✓] Removing duplicate domains
[i] Number of unique domains trapped in the Event Horizon: 123564

[i] Number of blocklist source domains being added to the whitelist: 6
[i] Number of whitelisted domains: 6
[✓] Parsing domains into hosts format
[✓] Cleaning up stray matter
[✗] Job for dnsmasq.service failed. See 'systemctl status dnsmasq.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
pihole-FTL: no process found

[✓] DNS service is running
[✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled

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You're on Jessie with an out of date dnsmasq version, see:

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A post was split to a new topic: I am getting pihole-FTL “active (exited)” and Web GUI is non resposive

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For the next person searching for a solution. My pihole FTL was broken. /r (repair) fixed it.