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Please ensure that you are running the latest version of the beta code.
Run pihole -up to update to the latest, then verify that the problem still exists before reporting it.
Problem with Beta 5.0:
The whole PiHole-System doesn`t come up since the last update. Starting the ftl-Service manualy gives the following logentry. No other changes has been applied to the system.
A start job for unit pihole-FTL.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 867.
Apr 29 18:12:18 pihole systemd[930]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed to execute command: Exec format error
Apr 29 18:12:18 pihole systemd[930]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL: Exec format error
-- Subject: Process /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL could not be executed
Debug Token:
Due to no Pihole running immposible
Please provide the output from the following
sudo systemctl cat pihole-FTL.service
sudo /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL status
sudo /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo systemctl cat pihole-FTL.service
# /run/systemd/generator.late/pihole-FTL.service
# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator
[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=graphical.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL stop
Here you are. Thanks for your fast help.
And the output from the last two commands?
No output at all... 
Thats the whole log:
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo systemctl cat pihole-FTL.service
# /run/systemd/generator.late/pihole-FTL.service
# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator
[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=graphical.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL stop
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL status
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start
pi@pihole:~ $
Okay, sudo ls -lach /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL and sudo cat /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL please.
Here we go
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo ls -lach /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 29 18:05 /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL
pi@pihole:~ $ sudo cat /etc/init.d/pihole-FTL
€dit: Sry, been looking to long on screens today. 
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The file is empty. Repair Pi-hole pihole -r
Already tried that without success. The system isn`t responding to "pihole" in any form at all.
Does which pihole give you a path to the binary?
Jep. I have absolutely no idee what happend here...
pi@pihole:~ $ which pihole
/usr/local/bin/pihole
Not sure myself either. What is your $PATH set to? echo $PATH
pi@pihole:~ $ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
The session just stopped while requesting the first blocklist after the "successfull" update and then ftl just kicked out. Restarting the whole system didn`t change anything, Pihole was just gone.
Should be there, not sure why you don't have it. Try with the full path.
/usr/local/bin/pihole -r
Same thing, just nothing...
pi@pihole:~ $ /usr/local/bin/pihole -r
pi@pihole:~ $
It's probably empty as well.
sudo ls -lach /usr/local/bin/pihole
sudo cat /usr/local/bin/pihole
pi@pihole:/usr/local/bin $ sudo ls -lach /usr/local/bin/pihole
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 29 18:05 /usr/local/bin/pihole
pi@pihole:/usr/local/bin $ sudo cat /usr/local/bin/pihole
pi@pihole:/usr/local/bin $
Yep, that's empty as well.
sudo df -h please.
Here we go!
pi@pihole:/usr/local/bin $ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 14G 2.2G 12G 17% /
devtmpfs 430M 0 430M 0% /dev
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 463M 6.2M 457M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 53M 200M 21% /boot
tmpfs 93M 0 93M 0% /run/user/1000
pi@pihole:/usr/local/bin $
Well, you're not out of disk space so I don't know why the files don't exist with any contents.
Back up what you need and then try running the curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash command again, I don't know what state that will leave you in with the beta, you may have to do the version 4 to 5 commands again. I don't know for sure that this will work, so make sure you have what you need.