Today received my raspberry Pi 4 and tried installing Pi-Hole, but is fails under the newest Rasbian Buster version. Any suggestions or wait until the new version arrives?
Regards
Ron
Buster is not currently supported, however we have a fix that's being reviewed and will be implemented soon.
In mean time, on how to get working:
So I bought a Pi4 to replace my server like things on my network... and buster is the only thing that works on it... and I know from reading around Pihole doesn’t yet support buster and I’m okay with that. With that said we all know at some point it will be supported.
Reading around the big issue with buster is the lighttpd conf file for mime times... I ‘fixed” that just buy commenting out the line. However, for me the web front end still doesn’t work.
If I run /usr/sbin/lighttpd -tt -f /etc/lighthttpd/lighthttpd.conf I will get an error about the next line, that isn’t commented out.... this is a fresh install and the first thing I did was try to install Pihole.
So my question, comment, would be would logging this issue be beneficial? Or will web replace the current web view by the time buster is officially supported making this a mute point?
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/getting-ready-for-buster/21001/20
There are some workarounds there, too.
HTH
Thanks for the reply. Those workarounds fixed my first issue... after stepping back from my tinkering I went to the gym for a bit to clear my head. Then I remembered seeing a thread about uninstalling then reinstalling PiHole on Buster... I actually did do that when FTL when I couldn’t get FTL to start.
I had to purge lighthttpd for it all to work.
I have problems with FTL.
I solved it by using the latest Dev version
Try "pihole checkout ftl development" and see if that fixes your problem.
It worked for me.
Please be aware of the large warning displayed when you use the pihole checkout function. It is not a solution for this issue.
The solution to that problem, getting FLT, to start was to actually start it. For some reason the installer didn’t do that... and then enable the service to start on all reboots.
From what I now know/see three big issues exist... and I can easily be mistaken here.
1.) the mime conf file name in lighthttpd.conf
2.) uninstalling Pihole and the reinstalling Pihole removes some of the conf files when removing Pihole that don’t get reinstalled when reinstalling
3.) FLT service doesn’t start up after an install complete... I assume this happens because I installed the web admin view, it tries to start up and fails... thus the install script ends before starting/enabling FLT.
I was able to fix everything for myself last night...
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Understood and agreed.
I had success with the Dev version, but I don't expect any support on it.
For now, it's been fine (over 2 solid days) with no problems.
Looking forward to the main update.
To be clear this is the correct fix for admin page not loading on buster: Fix lighttpd mime by RamSet · Pull Request #2816 · pi-hole/pi-hole · GitHub
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