SparkBox fails update

Posted by Seez

Hi, Getting this error when trying to update SparkBox: "Asking server to start self-update... Self-update started — checking for new release... Checking for updates... New version available: 1.6.122 (current: 1.6.115) Container mode detected — host install at /opt/sparkbox Looking up dashboard image... Spawning privileged update helper (image=sparkbox-sparkbox-dashboard)... [helper 2026-05-19T08:28:50+00:00] starting [helper] from version: 1.6.115 [helper] Downloading install.sh... curl: (6) Could not resolve host: get.tomsparkbox.com (Timeout while contacting DNS servers) [helper] curl failed: 6 ERROR: Update helper exited with code 1 [ERROR] SparkBox could not install the update. Your current install was left in place. Try again; if it repeats, open Settings → Updates and try the stepped update option."

1 replies

tomspark wrote:

This isn't the updater itself — it's host DNS. Could not resolve host: get.tomsparkbox.com (Timeout while contacting DNS servers) means the box can't resolve anything; the update just happens to be where you hit it. Given your Pi-hole port-53 thread, I'd bet these are the same root cause — a half-up Pi-hole or a confused systemd-resolved on WSL2 leaves the host with no working resolver. On the box: cat /etc/resolv.conf then nslookup get.tomsparkbox.com (or curl -v https://get.tomsparkbox.com). If nslookup also fails, DNS is broken host-wide; quickest unblock is temporarily putting a real resolver (nameserver 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf) so the update can pull, then fixing the Pi-hole/53 conflict so it sticks. Let's keep the actual DNS fix in the port-53 thread — sort that one and this clears with it.