Issue with FTL Engine not installed

[denistone]

Hi,

I am having an issue with Pi-hole installation on Ubuntu

The log shows
[i] FTL Checks...
[â] Detected x86_64 architecture
[i] Checking for existing FTL binary...
[â] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: Unable to get latest release location from GitHub
[â] FTL Engine not installed.
[i] Restarting services...

[â] Starting dnsmasq service

[â] Enabling dnsmasq service to start on reboot

[i] Starting pihole-FTL service...r

Looking at /etc/resolv.conf, it is still pointing to the normal DNS (not 127.0.0.1). binary pihole-ftp doesn't exist.

I tried to run "pihole -r" and got the same result.
[â] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: Unable to get latest release location from GitHub
[â] FTL Engine not installed.

I searched the forum but can't find anything similar, could someone please kindly help?

Thanks,
Denistone.

[robgill]

You haven't said which version of Ubuntu, but if it's 18.04, there may be some information here which will help.

Dnsmasq not starting - Ubuntu 18.04

So, I have been looking around and found these two threads. I think they are very relevant to my issue. But a dev/ expert can confirm. I tried following steps outlined by rrobgill but didn't work for me. Let me know if I should upload run a new token: If you could please try the following steps: Restore /etc/resolve.conf to its initial default state - contains: nameserver 127.0.0.1 Check that /etc/systemd/resolved.conf contains DNSStubHandler=no Force a reload of all of systemd-resolved'…

[denistone]

@robgill

a dev

Thanks Robgill for the reply.

My Ubuntu is 11.10, oneiric. Yes it is pretty old but for the time being, there are too much stuffs running off it and I can't risk by upgrading it.

The problem I had now with pi-hole is that /etc/resolve.conf is still pointing to the normal dns (e.g. the one I got from my internet provider), pi-hole seemed to be partially installed. Somehow pihole-ftl binary is not installed at all and pihole -r didn't do the repair.

Thanks,
Denistone

[robgill]

Wow. Onereic. Good luck with that, I suspect you'll be needing it. Here's a post about getting it to work on Trusty, that should give you some ideas of what night be needed.

Getting pi-hole to start working

First up, the current version of pi-hole will not work on Trusty. Ubuntu 14.04.5 is not on the list of officially supported distros. That said, if you would like to try an older version of pi-hole, you can change to version 3.2.1, which may well work on your system. (I have personally tested downgrading from the current Pi-hole to version 3.2.1 on ubuntu 14.04.5 by this method, and it is working at this time). If you have not already, please ensure that your system software up to date. Either …

[RamSet]

@denistone

[â] Downloading and Installing FTL
Error: Unable to get latest release location from GitHub
[â] FTL Engine not installed.

See if any of these troubleshooting steps will help:

[Solved] Cannot update Pi-Hole (Unable to get latest release location from GitHub)

Same result as before, no output: pi@rpi:~ $ curl -sI https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/latest pi@rpi:~ $ pi@rpi:~ $ curl -sI https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/latest | grep "Location" | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}' pi@rpi:~ $