Here is a closely related recurrence that has the same complexity as
the one in the OP and admits an exact solution for all $n.$ This
computation resembles the following MSE
link, the difference
being that this one does not depend on the digits of $n.$
Suppose we start by solving the following recurrence for $n\ge 3$:
$$T(n) = 5 T(\lfloor n/3 \rfloor) - 6 T(\lfloor n/9 \rfloor) +
\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor$$
where $T(0) = 0$ and $T(1) = T(2) = 1.$
We unroll the recursion to obtain an exact formula for $n\ge 3$
$$T(n) = [z^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}] \frac{1}{1- 5 z+ 6 z^2} +
\sum_{j=0}^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor-1}
[z^j] \frac{1}{1- 5 z+ 6 z^2}
(\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor - j).$$
where the first term represents the base cases with $n\lt 3$ and the
second the contribution from the logarithmic term.
Observe that the roots of $$1- 5 z + 6 z^2
\quad\text{are}\quad\rho_0=\frac{1}{2}
\quad\text{and}\quad\rho_1=\frac{1}{3}$$
and $$\frac{1}{1- 5 z+ 6 z^2}
= \frac{3}{1-3z} - \frac{2}{1-2z}.$$
It follows that the coefficients of the rational term have the form
$$[z^j] \frac{1}{1-5z+6z^2}
= 3^{j+1} - 2^{j+1}.$$
This gives the exact formula for $T(n):$
$$T(n) = 3^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor+1}
- 2^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor+1}
+ \sum_{j=0}^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor-1}
(3^{j+1}-2^{j+1})
(\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor - j)
\\ = 3\times 3^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
- 2\times 2^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
\\ + \frac{9}{4} 3^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
- \frac{3}{2} \lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor
- \frac{9}{4}
\\ - 4 \times 2^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
+ 2\times \lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor
+ 4$$
which simplifies to
$$\frac{21}{4} 3^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
- 6 \times 2^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}
+ \frac{1}{2} \lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor
+ \frac{7}{4}.$$
It follows that $T(n)$ has the dominant asymptotic
$$T(n)\in\Theta\left(3^{\lfloor \log_3 n \rfloor}\right)
= \Theta\left(3^{\log_3 n}\right)
= \Theta(n).$$
Observe that $5/3-6/9= 5/3-2/3=3/3=1,$ which checks.
Here is another Master Theorem computation at MSE.