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Expected Behaviour:
piHole running with connection
Actual Behaviour:
In the web interface: message "Lost connection to API" , FTL offline and all chasing arrows
if I launch the command
systemctl status pihole-FTL.service
I have
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-03-18 23:56:45 CET; 6min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 18369 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
mars 18 23:56:39 piCloud systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
mars 18 23:56:45 piCloud pihole-FTL[18369]: .....
mars 18 23:56:45 piCloud pihole-FTL[18369]: Not stopped; may still be shutting down or shutdown may have failed, killing now
mars 18 23:56:45 piCloud systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
mars 18 23:56:45 piCloud systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
mars 18 23:56:45 piCloud systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.
So I fixed the problem in recreating the system on the SD-Card and reinstalling Pi-Hole from scratch...
Sadly, it seems that this is often the only working solution when a problem occurs on a Pi