Pihole installer: /usr/bin/pihole-FTL No such file or directory

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Expected Behaviour:

Install process should complete

Actual Behaviour:

Error received during install: /opt/pihole/updatecheck.sh line 57: /usr/bin/pihole-FTL: no such file or directory
Installer quits on this error

Debug Token:

4jnnnixibh

Received this error repeatedly. Decided to start over by reinstalling RaspPi Stretch, update & config Pi, configured networking, then started the pi-hole installer again. Received this exact same error again on this new, fresh system.

Searched forum and Google gerneally but have not found error elsewhere or a potential solution.

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To add: pihole-FTL is present in /usr/bin/ - permissions/access issue?

pihole -up generates similar error with:
update.sh line 218 (trying to read current version)
updatecheck.sh line 57 (setting FTL version)

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I'd assume it is a binary error. The kernel also says "no such file or directory" when one of the required libraries cannot be found. Please tell us the output of

ldd -v /usr/bin/pihole-FTL
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ldd -v /user/bin/pihole-FTL
result: not a valid executable

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/usr/... not /user/...

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yes sorry - I did enter it correctly in the terminal just not when retyping here.
52 AM

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Okay, still a weird response. How about

ls -lh /usr/bin/pihole-FTL
sha1sum /usr/bin/pihole-FTL
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11 PM

In troubleshooting before the rebuild I tried modifying the permissions on pihole-FTL to: chmod 777
-Didnt make a difference I believe.

Assuming there may be something strange with this file should I try obtaining one manually and overwriting this one?

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pi@noads:~ $ strings /usr/bin/pihole-FTL | head
/lib/ld-linux.so.3

pi@noads:~ $ dpkg -S ld-linux.so.3
libc6:armhf: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3

pi@noads:~ $ stat /lib/ld-linux.so.3
  File: ‘/lib/ld-linux.so.3’ -> ‘/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3’

Does that library "/lib/ld-linux.so.3" exist on your distro ?

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31 PM

Hope I entered these correctly. Looks like I don't have ld-linux.so.3

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:smiley:

Try these three:

strings /usr/bin/pihole-FTL | head

dpkg -S ld-linux.so.3

stat /lib/ld-linux.so.3
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41 AM

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So the library that pihole-FTL depends on is "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2".
Is it installed ?

dpkg -S ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

And is it at the expected location ?

whereis ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

stat /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

That library is part of the "libc6" package.
If not installed, you can do so with below one:

sudo apt-get install libc6

And check again if that library is at expected location now with the "whereis" and "stat" commands.

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Thank you for the help narrowing this issue down.
Running dpkg, whereis, & stat all resulted in 'no results'. I ran apt-get for the libc6 package and it reported I already had the latest version installed.
I found another command (ldd) that pointed toward a similarly named library ld-linux.so.2 located in /lib/. Could this be what we're looking for?

53 PM

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Dont need to lookup dependencies for the "cat" command.
Its the library "ld-linux-x86-64.so.2", the 64 bits version, what the pi-hole-FTL binary wants.

Could you post results for below ones ?

uname -r -m

dpkg --print-architecture

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

dpkg -L libc6 | grep ld-linux

sudo find / -name *ld-linux*

apt-cache search ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

EDIT: Mind I altered the find command.

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Sorry for the irrelevant tangent. Here are the results of the commands
23 PM

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Missed out an important one:

dpkg --print-architecture

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36 AM

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Am not sure if you can run binaries intended for a 64 bit system on a 32 bit (i386) distro but dont think so.
What distro did you install and did you add that foreign architecture "amd64" and what for ?
Dont know if a 32 bit pi-hole-FTL version exists.
If its a fresh install, you could try re-install on the 64 bit version of that distro.
Maybe the @developers can shed some light ?

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There are 32 bit binaries available: Release FTL v2.12 · pi-hole/FTL · GitHub