Assistance understanding output? Trying to install PiHole using BalenaOS and BalenaCloud

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Hello all, I’d like to start off by letting you all know I’m new to this world of Linux, balena and pihole but have a technical and computer background and am able to follow directions, typically. I wasn’t sure where exactly to stick this so thought I’d start in this Topic but if I belong elsewhere please feel free to let me know and I will move the discussion. Thank you in advance for any of yours time and assistance. It will be greatly appreciated

Okay, so I am trying to install pihole using balenacloud (I think I said that correctly). I feel I have successfully followed the instructions but after completion my pihole is not working. thought I maybe did something wrong the 1st installation since I am new to all of this, so I blew it all out and started from scratch and the results were the same. In the terminal it keeps showing the following (see below) which I can tell is not right but don’t know the next steps to correct?

I was following the instructions in the following link
https://www.balena.io/blog/deploy-network-wide-ad-blocking-with-pi-hole-and-a-raspberry-pi/. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.

04.04.20 11:10:16 (-0700) Service exited ‘pihole sha256:0b0351cd7e476ff203d30a49f83df1574421c9a654e9a5b5aa566aab5467a518’
04.04.20 11:10:37 (-0700) Restarting service ‘pihole sha256:0b0351cd7e476ff203d30a49f83df1574421c9a654e9a5b5aa566aab5467a518’
04.04.20 11:10:08 (-0700) pihole [s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting.
04.04.20 11:10:33 (-0700) pihole [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc…exited 0.
04.04.20 11:10:34 (-0700) pihole [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms…exited 0.
04.04.20 11:10:34 (-0700) pihole [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes…
04.04.20 11:10:34 (-0700) pihole [fix-attrs.d] 01-resolver-resolv: applying…
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [fix-attrs.d] 01-resolver-resolv: exited 0.
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [fix-attrs.d] done.
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts…
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [cont-init.d] 20-start.sh: executing…
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [cont-init.d] 20-start.sh: exited 267.
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts…
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [cont-finish.d] done.
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [s6-finish] syncing disks.
04.04.20 11:10:35 (-0700) pihole [s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.
04.04.20 11:10:38 (-0700) pihole [s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting.
04.04.20 11:10:48 (-0700) Service exited ‘pihole sha256:0b0351cd7e476ff203d30a49f83df1574421c9a654e9a5b5aa566aab5467a518’
04.04.20 11:11:05 (-0700) Restarting service ‘pihole sha256:0b0351cd7e476ff203d30a49f83df1574421c9a654e9a5b5aa566aab5467a518’
04.04.20 11:10:38 (-0700) pihole [s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting.
04.04.20 11:11:01 (-0700) pihole [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc…exited 0.
04.04.20 11:11:02 (-0700) pihole [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms…exited 0.
04.04.20 11:11:02 (-0700) pihole [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes…
Just keeps showing this over and over…

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Hey @BIgLexLost welcome to the forum and thanks for trying the project!

Could you share what device you’re using for the project? I would also recommend checking that all the environment variables have been set according to the readme on the project here: https://github.com/klutchell/balena-pihole

I just ran a quick test on a device here and pushed the latest version of the project to a Pi 3 and it seemed to work OK; the benefit of doing projects like this is that they are (usually!) reproducible as everything is automated, so hopefully a simple fix for you.

Just a note that in case you’re trying to use a Pi Zero, the project doesn’t support that device right now, but support is in development (see here: https://github.com/klutchell/balena-pihole/pull/36)

I hope this helps :slight_smile: