Piratebox 1.0.7: pacman -Syu broke ability to allocate IP addresses: "Obtaining IP address"

edit: added pastebin link for journal log


I used piratebox_rpi_1.0.7-1.img.zip as per [piratebox.cc]

TL;DR - installed latest Piratebox; updated OS software; Piratebox now broken

I followed the instructions to setup the Pi and confirmed that it worked, and I could connect to it: no problem.

As a sensible netizen I then decided to run a full system upgrade using pacman -Syu: this is a rather large update and took the release to Linux alarmpi 4.4.19-1-ARCH #1 Tue Aug 23 19:29:12 MDT 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux. I then rebooted and the piratebox came back up.

However, on my WiFi device (which has always worked with (piratebox) the WiFi connection is seen but it never connects: instead it just says "Obtaining IP address", then "IP Configuration Failure".

I suspected that a dnsmasq update might be the problem so I re-imaged the SD card with the original, working Piratebox img and rebooted. Then I edit /etc/pacman.conf and added "IgnorePkg = dnsmasq*" and reran pacman -Syu.

Here's a clue, but I'm not sure how to fix it:

Sep 06 10:33:10 alarmpi piratebox_alt[263]: Starting dnsmasq...
Sep 06 10:33:10 alarmpi piratebox_alt[263]: dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
Sep 06 10:33:10 alarmpi dnsmasq[288]: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
Sep 06 10:33:10 alarmpi dnsmasq[288]: FAILED to start up

Comments/hints please?

The full journal log is at [www.petergarner.net]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/06/2016 01:24PM by petertgarner.

Hi,
thank you for providing that much of data, that helped alot.
I am not quite sure what your box broke, but the fix for this

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Sep 06 10:33:10 alarmpi piratebox_alt[263]: dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use

would be:

systemctl stop piratebox
systemctl stop dnsmasq
systemctl disable dnsmasq
systemctl start piratebox

that should fix that..

hope that helps,
best regards
Matthias

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Thanks Matthias!

Much appreciated.. I have put the fix in and everything is now working well.

It makes sense - I need to disable the system dnsmasq which tries to access external servers
but the Piratebox handles it properly on startup.

I found that if I then connected my Ethernet cable to run other updates I needed to stop
the Piratebox dnsmasq to get to the "regular" Internet. That's no problem though!

As always, thanks for a great piece of software!

Thank you for the feedback, I added an entry at the RPi troubleshooting section: [piratebox.cc]

best regards Matthias