Pi-Hole Not Starting Up

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Expected Behaviour:

Pi-hole starting on boot
Raspberry Pi (newest version)
Raspberry Pi 4, 4gb

Actual Behaviour:

Admin Console displays, however, status is "Unknown" and when I click Enable, it does not start-up.

The device was working, however, I did an update (sudo apt-get upgrade -y), rebooted and it's not working now.

Please post the token generated by

pihole -d

or do it through the Web interface:

Tools > Generate Debug Log

Well, this is not good...
-bash: pihole: command not found

if I run:
systemctl status pihole-FTL

I get the following:
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2020-06-02 20:15:53 EDT; 11min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 347 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jun 02 20:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Jun 02 20:15:52 raspberrypi pihole-FTL[347]: Not running
Jun 02 20:15:53 raspberrypi su[500]: (to pihole) root on none
Jun 02 20:15:53 raspberrypi su[500]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Jun 02 20:15:53 raspberrypi pihole-FTL[347]: FTL started!
Jun 02 20:15:53 raspberrypi su[500]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user pihole
Jun 02 20:15:53 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

Re-run the installer:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

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that was the easiest fix ever, thank you! resolved

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