Pihole DNS service not running / lighttpd & pihole-FTL daemons inactive

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Expected Behaviour:

Pihole running on Linux Deploy Ubunbtu on Arm64 Cortex A53 Android Box.

Actual Behaviour:

Pihole DNS service not running.
Get debug error:
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[✗] lighttpd daemon is
[✗] pihole-FTL daemon is

Settings tab error:
There was a problem applying your settings.
Debugging information:
PHP error (2): fsockopen(): unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:4711 (Unknown error) in /var/www/html/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/FTL.php:43

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/OaWGh5jw/

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Android is not a supported OS.

Furthermore, it would seem that OS virtualisation software on Android is not well equipped to host Pi-hole (maybe because it would require elevated rights and full network access, and Android's sandboxing model somehow interferes, but that would just be my guess).

As I recall it, similar reports here on our forum for running Pi-hole under Android have yet to find a successful conclusion.
In some cases, the reports involved a Pi-hole app downloaded from some kind of specialised store or software repository. In case you've been considering that approach: Those apps have not been created or endorsed by the Pi-hole team - the official ways to install Pi-hole on a supported OS can be found here.

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Hmm, it is not through an app it is still through Linux Ubuntu. I installed it through terminal curl as usual and can access the regular web interface.

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If I understand correctly, then Android is your host OS, and you are running Ubuntu as guest OS by virtue of a Linux deploy app.

This would suggest that our debug process has insufficient privileges to determine whether lighttpd is running, which it obviously is, or else you wouldn't be able to access the web interface.

The port 4711 error may or may not be related to similar permission issues, which would probably be attributable to the virtualisation software.

We can't really help you much here, as your configuration is not supported - specifically, we do not have a test environment to recreate your issue.

Your debug log also shows you are low on storage:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Disk usage
   Filesystem         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   /dev/block/loop0   2.0G  1.7G  150M  92% /
   tmpfs              388M   48K  388M   1% /dev
   tmpfs              388M  712K  387M   1% /dev/shm
   /dev/block/system  992M  706M  271M  73% /system

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /var/log
-rw-r--r--. 1 pihole pihole 124K Jul  3 02:04 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
   -----tail of pihole-FTL.log------
   [2022-07-03 01:49:22.671 5537/T5542] WARNING: Disk shortage (/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db) ahead: 92% is used (/etc/pihole: 1.9GB used, 2.1GB total)

If that would also be related to your virtualisation, you may want to increase its storage quota. If that limitation is real, I would recommend to switch to another device with better storage capacity.

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