pihole-FTL 3.0 fails to start on Raspbian Jessie reboot

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Expected Behaviour:

[FTL starts automatically after system reboot, pihole web admin console shows stats]

Actual Behaviour:

_[Resolved dnsmasq issue by manually installing newer dnsmasq version as indicated in; URL

However restarting Raspbian Jesse does not restart pihole-FTL

web admin shows “FTL offline” and “Lost connection to API across the top”

the command sudo service pihole-FTL status shows:

● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL)
Active: inactive (dead)

the command sudo service pihole-FTL restart resolves the issue, until the next system reboot…
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Debug Token:

[zb4n5xgdm1]

Thanks in advance!

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Check dnsmasq version:

pi@noads:~ $ dnsmasq -v
Dnsmasq version 2.76
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Thanks for the response.

dnsmasq is 2.76 as seen below. I had manually updated dnsmaq to the latest version. Now the only issue is that pihole-FTL fails to start automatically on system reboot.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dnsmasq -v
Dnsmasq version 2.76  Copyright (c) 2000-2016 Simon Kelley
Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth DNSSEC loop-detect inotify
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Do you have logs of when FTL tries to start on boot and fails?

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I really wanted to troubleshoot this but I read on another thread (lost link) that re-installing pihole after manually updating dnsmasq helped in some cases.

So I uninstalled and reinstalled pihole and FTL starts automatically on reboot. I added a comment on the update dnsmasq post in case it helps others:

to uninstall

pihole uninstall

to install

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

Thanks @deHakkelaar and @Mcat12

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