pihole-FTL will not start

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Expected Behaviour:

pihole_FTL should start without a problem.
Pihole has been working for me for months without a problem until I woke up this morning with it completely broken. I am using Debian 10 (Buster).

Actual Behaviour:

It seems like the pihole-FTL service won't start no matter what I do. When trying to start the service, it hangs for a minute or two, then reports a failure to start. I've tried running a repair which has not fixed my issue. I am running the latest update for pihole (5.3.1) and FTL (5.8.1).

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/6IzcNC8b/

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Can you paste the output of:

journalctl -u pihole-FTL
tail -20 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
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If the database is large it takes a long time to start.
A quick and dirty way is to fix it.

cd /etc/pihole
systemctl status pihole-FTL.service
service pihole-FTL stop
pkill pihole-FTL
rm pihole-FTL.db
service pihole-FTL start

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*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole processes
[✓] lighttpd daemon is active
[✗] pihole-FTL daemon is failed

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Pi-hole-FTL full status
   * pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2021-08-13 15:41:06 EDT; 3min 36s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1420 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Aug 13 15:36:06 ETAN-PIHOLE systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Aug 13 15:36:06 ETAN-PIHOLE pihole-FTL[457]: Terminated
Aug 13 15:36:06 ETAN-PIHOLE pihole-FTL[1420]: Stopped
Aug 13 15:36:06 ETAN-PIHOLE su[1441]: (to pihole) root on none
Aug 13 15:36:06 ETAN-PIHOLE su[1441]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Aug 13 15:41:06 ETAN-PIHOLE systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Aug 13 15:41:06 ETAN-PIHOLE systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Control process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Aug 13 15:41:06 ETAN-PIHOLE systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Aug 13 15:41:06 ETAN-PIHOLE systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.

Please have a look in /var/log/pihole-FTL.log if there are any errors.

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