0006595: kali-themes cp: cannot create symbolic link '/boot/grub/themes/kali/background.png': Operation not permitted

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0006595	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2020-07-22 10:18	2025-07-14 09:37

Reporter	kenji	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	2020.2

Summary	0006595: kali-themes cp: cannot create symbolic link '/boot/grub/themes/kali/background.png': Operation not permitted
Description	Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up kali-themes (2020.3.0) ... cp: cannot create symbolic link '/boot/grub/themes/kali/background.png': Operation not permitted dpkg: error processing package kali-themes (--configure): installed kali-themes package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kali-themes E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-07-22 10:18	kenji	New Issue
2020-07-22 10:20	kenji	Note Added: 0013106
2020-07-22 10:49	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2020-07-22 10:49	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2020-07-22 10:49	rhertzog	Resolution	open => duplicate
2020-07-22 10:49	rhertzog	Note Added: 0013111
2020-07-22 10:49	rhertzog	Relationship added	duplicate of 0006583
2025-07-14 09:36	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal
2025-07-14 09:37	g0tmi1k	Severity	block => minor

kenji 2020-07-22 10:20 reporter ~0013106	This is on Linux 4.19.118-Re4son-v7l+ 0000001 (Kali build on Raspberry Pi 4 board)

rhertzog 2020-07-22 10:49 administrator ~0013111	Already fixed in a later update. See 0006583.