Hello, I've just got my raspberry pi board yesterday and was eager to try out pihole. However, after following all the instructed steps, I'm encountering this problem and it seems that I can't solve it on my own.
Running non-stop
Every few hours (about one to three), pihole will crash. ssh will not connect, the web interface will not show up at all when I try to access it. Need to manually reboot the device (removing the power supply)
Your debug log looks normal. Perhaps you are having a hardware problem (indicated since ssh will not connect).
What model Pi? Good quality SD card or a cheap one that came in a kit? What power supply are you using for the Pi?
Thank you for replying.
Im currently using pi zero w, a SD card that I bought at bestbuy (Lexar 32GB), and a phone charger from Sony that provides 1800mA at 5V.
I would swap the power supply for another, and also ensure that the WiFi on the Pi isn't going to sleep.
Thank you, will try those and report back.
I couldn't get a proper micro usb-b power supply for now but I'll try to disable wifi sleep on the Pi and see if that solves the problem.
Hi jfb,
I tried to turn the wifi sleep off and it worked for 3 hours and I left the pihole-log on just in case it crashes again.
And then it crashed. The last thing on the log was
dnsmasq [some number]: [reply error is SERVFAIL"]
And then pihole went in to the status I described earlier in the post, i.e ssh and web wont work.
Any ideas?
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