| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/pi-hole-server.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | pi-hole-server |
| Description: | The Pi-hole is an advertising-aware DNS/Web server. Arch adaptation for lan wide DNS server. |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole |
| Keywords: | ad block pi-hole |
| Licenses: | EUPL-1.2 |
| Conflicts: | pi-hole-standalone |
| Submitter: | max.bra |
| Maintainer: | max.bra (graysky) |
| Last Packager: | max.bra |
| Votes: | 115 |
| Popularity: | 1.68 |
| First Submitted: | 2016-01-13 12:50 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-01-16 11:35 (UTC) |
Hello, sorry if this has been posted before, but my google-fu is failing me.
I've been using this (and -ftl) fine for several months now, but then a couple weeks ago the graphs on the admin page quit loading. They sit spinning forever now (https://i.imgur.com/vsgDyel.png).
Any advice on how to fix this?
I tried removing / reinstalling the packages to no avail.
@gecko - we need log of FTL systemd service status when fail and errors about installing packages. Is it a file conflict before installing it or is an error post install running *.install script?
for me, the only pihole directory in /var is: /var/cache/lighttpd/compress/pihole and it's about admin gui web server.
@ max.bra Hi Max, thanks for your reply. What information can I give that would be more useful? I’d be happy to run some tests but I’d have to reinstall the package as I removed it. But I have never touched the curl command from the pi-hole site. This is a brand new installation of Arch Linux Arm on an R-Pi 3B+, using the aarch64 architecture, that I only installed last weekend. It was the first time I’d installed pi-hole on this machine (guess that also answers your question @graysky).
It’s interesting though, becuase there were certainly entries in my /var directory that are to do with pihole. I have already removed the package now and the directories have gone with it. But there was a pihole directory in /var/log that was owned by http, not the pihole user. So I thought that that might be part of the problem. I tried changing it but it made no difference.
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You know, I think I’ve gotten confused between pi-hole and pi-hole-ftl. I believe the problems I have been expereincing have been with FTL, not with pi-hole server itself. As, although the systemd pi-hole-ftl service was failing to start, I was able to resolve DNS using the server still. I think I got too caught up in the web interface not working (it was stuck on continuously loading) and thought that the whole thing was broken. I may reinstall the package and just use it from the CL.
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Also, I didn’t debug by using the pihole debug command, but by installing and using gdb. I was adapting the debian based instructions listed here: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL
@gecko - I have an ODROID-C2 running Arch ARM (aarch64) that runs pihole for me using these packages. Does your setup have something special you configured? These work out-of-the-box for me (aarch64 lxc).
@gecko hi gecko, unfortunately with the informations available I can not help. this package do not use /var directory at all for nothing. it is highly probable that you have also performed an official installation with curl from the pi-hole site. clean EVERYTHING thoroughly, install only the packages for arch and we'll talk about it again.
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and more: this package has debug run disabled/not available/deleted
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port 4711 has nothing to do with us
I can't run pi-hole-server from this package on my aarch64 installation. The systemd pi-hole-ftl service fails to start. Running pi-hole in debug mode, and I think it can't bind to the 4711 port. But more than that, I believe this package is not doing the correct permissions on /var/run/pihole. Either way, I can't run a new installation of pihole at all with this package :(
@tsago - All members of base-devel are implied deps for all AUR packages[1].
Hi crobe2,
Already discussed on e.g. 2017-08-02 in here. Please spend a few moments to check older comments next time. => https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites
(and if the link is not obvious enough, note that sudo belongs to base-devel)
The package is missing a dependency for "sudo", without it, many things, like the blocking page will not work.
Pinned Comments
max.bra commented on 2018-02-09 16:45 (UTC) (edited on 2019-10-18 23:14 (UTC) by max.bra)
ArchLinux Pi-hole is not officially supported by Pi-hole project. In case of bugs and malfunctions please DO NOT file a report upstream.
First of all check if the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pi-hole) can help then ask here for assistance and tips.
When it will be excluded that the problem does not depend on ArchLinux we will file a bug upstream.