Sometimes FTL went offline and lost connection to API

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Expected Behaviour:

normal work of pi-hole.

Actual Behaviour:

every 1-2 days, often at night FTL went offline and lost connection to API. I can only restart the rp3 and after that pi-hole runs fine. I have tried to do pihole -r. A log cannot be uploaded during the event, but I have done a log after restarting.
Pi-hole connects to dnscrypt on port 5300 but dnscrypt seems to work even if FTL is offline. So I think it must be a problem of pi-hole.

Debug Token:

uuudgeu225

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Thats a known issue. Should be fixed in next update. The current dev release works just fine. Take a look: FTL Crash · Issue #496 · pi-hole/FTL · GitHub

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They are working on a fix.
If you want to help - please report your experience - you can install the current version of that fix with

pihole checkout ftl tweak/overhaul_overTime

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Thanks for reply. With the code base I am not familiar with. I have instaslled the fix. Is it possible to remove the fix if I occur problems? How?

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You get back to main version with

pihole checkout ftl master

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OK. Understood.
Unfortunately after switching to the fix it happened again. I have to stop and then to start the FTL service (sudo service pihole-FTL stop, sudo service pihole-FTL start). So it seems, that the fix does not solve my problem. I will see, if it will happen again.

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Please try the new release

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Thanks for the reminder to update. I have first changed to master channel and second update pi-hole. I hope, the problem is gone now (finger crossed :smile: )

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Installing the 4.2.2 update solved the problem. Thanks a lot!

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