# Last 2 updates have resulted in ftp not loading

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 3, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380 "2025-06-03T08:36:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hairybiker](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hairybiker](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/hairybiker)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380/1 "2025-06-03T08:36:14Z")

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As has been mentioned on here several times. On my system the updates in the last week a have resulted in pihole-FTL not starting.  
Only solution has been to rename the

```auto
sudo pihole status
  [✗] DNS service is NOT running
sudo mv /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL-old.db
systemctl restart pihole-FTL.service
sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL.service
● pihole-FTL.service - Pi-hole FTL
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/pihole-FTL.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-06-03 09:30:30 BST; 7s ago
    Process: 2910812 ExecStartPre=/opt/pihole/pihole-FTL-prestart.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCES>
   Main PID: 2910826 (pihole-FTL)
      Tasks: 7 (limit: 9277)
     Memory: 4.5M (peak: 5.0M)
        CPU: 204ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/pihole-FTL.service
             └─2910826 /usr/bin/pihole-FTL -f

Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.266 BST [2910826M] INFO: FTL user: pi>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.266 BST [2910826M] INFO: Compiled for>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.269 BST [2910826M] INFO: Wrote config>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.269 BST [2910826M] INFO: - 155 total>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.269 BST [2910826M] INFO: - 144 entri>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.269 BST [2910826M] INFO: - 11 entrie>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.269 BST [2910826M] INFO: - 0 entries>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.270 BST [2910826M] INFO: Parsed confi>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.270 BST [2910826M] INFO: PID file doe>
Jun 03 09:30:30 duo pihole-FTL[2910826]: 2025-06-03 09:30:30.270 BST [2910826M] INFO:
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**Author:** ![wd9895](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/wd9895/32/54849_2.png) [@wd9895](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/wd9895)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380/2 "2025-06-04T15:10:42Z")

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Pihole works here obviously properly on

- Pi Nano
- PI 2B+
- Pi 3B+
- latest Bookworm OS

What are your details on OS, additional software, manual made changes ?

Please post your debug file URL.

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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:** [June 4, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380/3 "2025-06-04T15:15:12Z")

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See the pinned post

> [@PSA: FTL v6.2 / FTL v6.2.1 crashes workaround](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/80339):
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> Originally published at: [https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/06/02/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/](https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/06/02/psa-ftl-v6-2-ftl-v6-2-1-crashes-workaround/) We are currently aware of FTL crashing with a segmentation fault on some systems – more detailed information about this issue can be followed on Github, here: [https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/issues/2473](https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/issues/2473). If you are currently affected by this issue, the easiest way to get things back up and running is to downgrade FTL to the previous version. There are instructions in the above Github th…

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/c/7c8792f649eeb921c5d2b4c41564ffa873d9a2b8.png) [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/last-2-updates-have-resulted-in-ftp-not-loading/80380/4 "2025-06-25T15:16:08Z")

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