Rasbian upgrade to Stretch

[jwillmer]

Is (upgrading to) Stretch supported by Pi-Hole? Is there some things that needs to be taken care of before upgrading or known limitations?

Could you add a note/section to the Readme since I think many will start upgrading/installing the latest Rasbian and like to know the limitations - if any.

[WaLLy3K]

The only issue I'm aware of is that Stretch will uninstall netstat.

This is an issue for those on the master branch, as it will cause anything relying on pihole status to fail (most notibly causes an issue for the top left of the Admin Console).

You can either run sudo apt-get install -y net-tools, or run pihole checkout core development - both should resolve the issue.

[bczapp]

Hello!
I've got Pi-Hole running on Stretch.

I have noticed the mentioned issue with the status in the admin console even though net-tools are installed.
But unfortunately there is another issue is that I'm unable to add domains to the white liste using the admin console. I can "Add" the Domain but it's never showing up in the list.

I'm running the master branch.

[WaLLy3K]

Hey @bczapp, can you double check to make sure that net-tools is installed?

• dpkg -s net-tools | grep Status:
• which netstat

Also, are you accessing your Web Admin via http://pi.hole, via your Pi's IP address or via a domain name?

[bczapp]

Hi @WaLLy3K
here are the information regarding netstat:

xx@raspberrypi:~ $ dpkg -s net-tools | grep Status:
Status: install ok installed
xx@raspberrypi:~ $ which netstat
/bin/netstat
xx@raspberrypi:~ $

I'm using "http://pi.hole/admin/list.php?l=white" to access the admin console.

Regards,
bczapp

[WaLLy3K]

I'd recommend you run pihole -r to repair your installation, attempt to reproduce both issues and then run pihole -d (uploading the debug log, and providing the token to us when it's spat out).

[bczapp]

I ran "pihole -r" and choosed repair (also did this before).
Then I accessed the admin console. Status of Pi-Hole was unknown, Clicked on "Enable" and reloaded pi-hole/admin -> Status is unknown again.

Then I tried to add web.de and test.com to the whitelist. Both didn't show up.

Token is 0iw8ywglbc

[WaLLy3K]

Give the following a go, and provide the output it gives:

sudo -u www-data sudo pihole status

[bczapp]

It seems as when user www-data tries to run sudo he has to enter a password.
See below, first command asks for a password second command just works.

root@raspberrypi:/home/bc# sudo -u www-data sudo pihole status

Wir gehen davon aus, dass der lokale Systemadministrator Ihnen die
Regeln erklärt hat.  Normalerweise läuft es auf drei Regeln hinaus:

    #1) Respektieren Sie die Privatsphäre anderer.
    #2) Denken Sie nach, bevor Sie tippen.
    #3) Mit großer Macht kommt große Verantwortung.

[sudo] Passwort für www-data:

<snip>

root@raspberrypi:/home/bc# sudo -u www-data ping web.de
PING web.de (82.165.230.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bap.web.de (82.165.230.17): icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=12.8 ms

[WaLLy3K]

That's starting to make more sense, thankfully! 😄

The following should hopefully resolve both issues:

sudo rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/pihole
sudo cp /etc/.pihole/advanced/pihole.sudo /etc/sudoers.d/pihole
echo "www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/pihole" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/pihole

[bczapp]

Hello @WaLLy3K

thanks for your help.
It's working now. (Both status and admin console)

Finally it was an issue with the sudoers configuration.

Regards,
bczapp

[WaLLy3K]

Closing issue as O.P's question has been answered. This PR will fix the known issue with Debian Stretch.