Pihole shows 0 domains blocked and no cached list available

[chris_1982]

[i] Pi-hole blocking is enabled
  [i] Neutrino emissions detected...
  [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

  [i] Target: Binary file  (adlists.list matches)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [✓] Consolidating blocklists
  [✓] Extracting domains from blocklists
  [i] Number of domains being pulled in by gravity: 0
  [✓] Removing duplicate domains
  [i] Number of unique domains trapped in the Event Horizon: 0
  [i] Number of whitelisted domains: 1
  [i] Number of blacklisted domains: 0
  [i] Number of regex filters: 0
  [✓] Parsing domains into hosts format
  [✓] Cleaning up stray matter

  [✓] Force-reloading DNS service
  [✓] DNS service is running
  [✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled

my dubug token is https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/4h8pqvuql4

thanks for your help

[jfb]

 [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

 [i] Target: Binary file  (adlists.list matches)
 [✗] Status: Connection Refused

This is unusual. /etc/pihole/adlists.list is the name of the file that contains the URLs of all your subscribed blocklists. It is a text file and not a binary file. What is the output of the following commands from the Pi teminal:

ls -lh /etc/pihole/adlists.list

cat /etc/pihole/adlists.list