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Usually my Google-Fu allows me to solve most issues with Linux after enough time, but this one has me stumped.

I recently tried to install Pihole on my Plex box, which is running ubuntu 18.04.2. Everything worked fine, but pihole wasn't able to reliably block the main things I wanted blocked (mainly youtube ads over my roku), so I uninstalled it. Ever since I did that, I've been having DHCP issues with my Plex server.

I've figured out two band-aids to get things working, but I want a proper fix.

1. I can edit the resolv.conf file to add my router, or cloudflare as a DNS, which fixes all issues.


2. I can edit the netplan .yaml file to force DHCP on my ethernet device, and then apply the netplan config. This also fixes all issues.

The problem with both of these fixes is they don't persist after reboot. I think something somewhere is going wrong with Network-Manager but I'm not sure what, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I'm guessing it has something to do with PiHole not really having a true "clean" uninstall option.

I've tried the following without success:

1. Unplug and replug all networking hardware coupled with a restart of the Plex


2. sudo apt-get -d --reinstall network-manager network-manager-gnome

Upon reboot dig www.google.com is always unsuccessful, and ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 is always successful. Trying to access google via 8.8.8.8 is always unsuccessful until one of the top fixes is applied.

I'm not quite sure what will be needed to fix this but I appreciate the time of anyone who's reading this. I realize I could probably make something that runs at startup which runs the netplan apply command, but I feel like there's a better solution to this.

Thanks!

EDIT: I added this after another question similar to mine had the output requested.--------------------------
sudo lshw -C network gives:

 *-network                 

   description: Ethernet interface

   product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

   vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

   physical id: 0

   bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

   logical name: enp1s0

   version: 15

   serial: 30:9c:23:d6:d4:c8

   size: 1Gbit/s

   capacity: 1Gbit/s

   width: 64 bits

   clock: 33MHz

   capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

   configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 ip=10.0.1.9 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s

   resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a1104000-a1104fff memory:a1100000-a1103fff

ifconfig gives:

enp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

    inet 10.0.1.9  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.1.255

    inet6 fe80::329c:23ff:fed6:d4c8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

    ether 30:9c:23:d6:d4:c8  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

    RX packets 29929  bytes 8095074 (8.0 MB)

    RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

    TX packets 46972  bytes 48312760 (48.3 MB)

    TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0



    lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536

        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0

        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>

        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)

        RX packets 27784  bytes 41332037 (41.3 MB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 27784  bytes 41332037 (41.3 MB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

cat /etc/netplan/*.yaml gives:

# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system

    network:

    version: 2

    renderer: NetworkManager

    ethernets:

      enp1s0:

        dhcp4: true

ls -al /etc/resolv.conf gives:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 18 23:47 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf

cat /etc/resolv.conf gives:

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

# 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.

# run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.



nameserver 127.0.0.53

search bldint.com

options edns0

dpkg -l dns | grep ii gives:

ii  dns-root-data        2018013001               all          DNS root data including root zone and DNSSEC key

ii  dnsmasq-base         2.79-1                   amd64        Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server

ii  dnsutils             1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.5 amd64        Clients provided with BIND

ii  libdns-export1100    1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.5 amd64        Exported DNS Shared Library

ii  libdns1100:amd64     1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.5 amd64        DNS Shared Library used by BIND

ii  libmicrodns0:amd64   0.0.8-1                  amd64        minimal mDNS resolver and announcer library (shared library)

ii  libnet-dns-perl      1.10-2                   all          Perform DNS queries from a Perl script

ii  libnss-mdns:amd64    0.10-8ubuntu1            amd64        NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution

ii  python-dnspython     1.15.0-1                 all          DNS toolkit for Python

dpkg -l resolv | grep ii gives:

ii  resolvconf     1.79ubuntu10.18.04.2 all          name server information handler

resolvectl gives:

resolvectl: command not found

UPDATE 1:
I've tried removing lighttpd, and running an updated uninstall.sh from pihole. No dice. Additionally, I've amended my *.yaml file to remove the last 3 lines (ethernets, enp1s0, and dhcp4). The amended *.yaml file no longer allows my previous fix to work.

The following is the output from sudo netplan --debug apply for the amended *.yaml file:

** (generate:3099): DEBUG: 19:49:38.200: starting new processing pass

** (generate:3099): DEBUG: 19:49:38.200: Generating output files..

DEBUG:no netplan generated networkd configuration exists

DEBUG:no netplan generated NM configuration exists

DEBUG:Merged config:

network:

  bonds: {}

  bridges: {}

  ethernets: {}

  vlans: {}

  wifis: {}



DEBUG:Skipping non-physical interface: lo

DEBUG:Skipping non-physical interface: enp1s0

DEBUG:{}

DEBUG:netplan triggering .link rules for lo

DEBUG:netplan triggering .link rules for enp1s0

The following is the output for the original file (which I've now restored) for sudo netplan --debug apply:

** (generate:3258): DEBUG: 19:52:42.231: starting new processing pass

** (generate:3258): DEBUG: 19:52:42.231: enp1s0: setting default backend to 2

** (generate:3258): DEBUG: 19:52:42.231: Generating output files..

** (generate:3258): DEBUG: 19:52:42.231: networkd: definition enp1s0 is not for us (backend 2)

DEBUG:no netplan generated networkd configuration exists

DEBUG:netplan generated NM configuration exists, restarting NM

DEBUG:enp1s0 not found in {}

DEBUG:Merged config:

network:

  bonds: {}

  bridges: {}

  ethernets:

    enp1s0:

      dhcp4: true

  vlans: {}

  wifis: {}



DEBUG:Skipping non-physical interface: lo

DEBUG:device enp1s0 operstate is up, not changing

DEBUG:{}

DEBUG:netplan triggering .link rules for lo

DEBUG:netplan triggering .link rules for enp1s0

I've been unable to install resolvectl through any of the usual channels.

From the comments...

Work in progess...

Between user mods, and the installation/deinstallation of pihole, networking isn't completely operational.

Recommend the user reinstall Ubuntu, make no mods, don't reinstall pihole.