Pihole Start up Issues

[CDR]

Hello this is my first post. I have been trying to download and troubleshoot this but it appears to not be working. I am unsure what my issue is. I tried to fix it by running pihole -r. It did not work so then I reconfigured it, but now I am unable to even get to the admin page.

I have followed the advice on some of the other posts but appear to have a mixture of them all. Here is the debug token: 4oillqhkii

[RamSet]

What exactly are you experiencing?

Install failures ? DNS issues?

Can you post the output of
pihole -v
sudo systemctl status dnsmasq
sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL
dig pi-hole.net

[CDR]

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -v

Pi-hole version is v3.3.1 (Latest: v3.3.1)
AdminLTE version is v3.3 (Latest: v3.3)
FTL version is v3.0 (Latest: v3.0)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status dnsmasq
● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/dnsmasq.service.d
└─50-dnsmasq-$named.conf, 50-insserv.conf-$named.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-04-27 17:51:02 UTC; 3min 12s ago
Process: 4236 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 27 17:51:02 raspberrypi dnsmasq[4236]: dnsmasq: extraneous parameter at line 37 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf
Apr 27 17:51:02 raspberrypi systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 27 17:51:02 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Apr 27 17:51:02 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit dnsmasq.service entered failed state.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL)
Active: inactive (dead)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dig pi-hole.net

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u15-Raspbian <<>> pi-hole.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20337
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pi-hole.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pi-hole.net. 7200 IN A 206.189.252.21

;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1#53(192.168.2.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr 27 17:54:36 UTC 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45

[RamSet]

@CDR

dnsmasq: extraneous parameter at line 37 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf

Can you post the contents of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf

dnsmasq fails because of a bad entry in that file.
can you run 'dnsmasq -v` ?

You could also try pihole -r and try to re-install.

[CDR]

# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
# (c) 2015, 2016 by Jacob Salmela
# Network-wide ad blocking via your Raspberry Pi
# http://pi-hole.net
# dnsmasq config for Pi-hole
#
# Pi-hole is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

###############################################################################
#      FILE AUTOMATICALLY POPULATED BY PI-HOLE INSTALL/UPDATE PROCEDURE.      #
# ANY CHANGES MADE TO THIS FILE AFTER INSTALL WILL BE LOST ON THE NEXT UPDATE #
#                                                                             #
#        IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE THE UPSTREAM SERVERS, CHANGE THEM IN:          #
#                      /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf                             #
#                                                                             #
#        ANY OTHER CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE IN A SEPERATE CONFIG FILE           #
#                        OR IN /etc/dnsmasq.conf                              #
###############################################################################

addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/gravity.list
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/black.list
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/local.list


localise-queries


no-resolv



cache-size=10000

log-queries=extra
log-facility=/var/log/pihole.log

local-ttl=2

log-async
server=208.67.222.222
server=208.67.220.220
interface=eth0

[RamSet]

Comment out the line with log-queries=extra (add a # in front of it).

After that run pihole restartdns

[CDR]

pihole-FTL: no process found

[RamSet]

run a pihole -r and repair.

[CDR]

I reinstalled it. Reran through all of the suggestions you gave me. Repaired it and it still doesn't appear to work. I can't even get the Admin Gui to appear. Still having the FTL issues

[RamSet]

The devs will take a look at your debug code, there might be more stuff happening there than what we could have fixed with the the basic troubleshooting we did ...

[jacob.salmela]

Did you recomment out the line @RamSet suggested after the pihole -r? That process would add it back in.

Your token expired before I could look but I'm guessing your running Jessie, which is unsupported. See these links:

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