New install - pihole ftl offline - have to fix it manually every boot

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So I thought I'd set up pihole on a beaglebone with the latest image
Installed it several times now (including wiping the image clean and starting again from scratch), but no matter what I do I just cannot get the FTL service to run properly at boot.

I can fix it manually though:
chown -R pihole:pihole /var/run/dnsmasq
touch /var/run/dnsmasq.leases
chown pihole:pihole dnsmasq.leases
systemctl restart pihole-FTL
But I shouldn't need to do this every time - so what's wrong?

After boot:
systemctl status pihole-FTL returns:
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri 2018-11-16 10:45:00 AWST; 8min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1002 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/pihole-FTL.service

Nov 16 10:44:42 beaglebone systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Nov 16 10:44:43 beaglebone pihole-FTL[1002]: Not running
Nov 16 10:44:44 beaglebone pihole-FTL[1002]: chown: cannot access '/etc/pihole/dhcp.leases': No such file or directory
Nov 16 10:44:59 beaglebone su[1478]: Successful su for pihole by root
Nov 16 10:44:59 beaglebone su[1478]: + ??? root:pihole
Nov 16 10:44:59 beaglebone su[1478]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Nov 16 10:45:00 beaglebone pihole-FTL[1002]: dnsmasq: cannot open or create lease file /var/run/dnsmasq.leases: Permission denied
Nov 16 10:45:00 beaglebone systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

Debug Token:

5gb7b1fq1w

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Your debug log shows that dnsmasq is running on port 53, which is preventing pihole-FTL from running.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Ports in use
*:1880 systemd (IPv6)
*:22 sshd (IPv4)
*:22 sshd (IPv6)
*:80 lighttpd (IPv4)
*:80 lighttpd (IPv6)
*:53 dnsmasq (IPv4)
*:53 dnsmasq (IPv6)

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[✓] dnsmasq daemon is active
[✓] lighttpd daemon is active

In V4.0, dnsmasq is embedded in pihole-FTL, and dnsmasq no longer runs as a separate process. The debug log will show dnsmasq as either failed or inactive. Process pihole-FTL should be shown running on port 53.

Turn off and disable dnsmasq and restart pihole-FTL.

sudo service dnsmasq stop
sudo service dnsmasq disable
sudo service pihole-FTL restart
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So dnsmasq is disabled - I've even deleted the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq.service file and I'm still getting it.

Debug token: 5ynls133bt

My manual steps above still seem to fix it.

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Uninstall dnsmasq and that should solve the problem:

sudo apt-get remove dnsmasq

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