0002589: On a HP Chromebook with crouton, upgrade to 2.0 fails on xorg-video-abi-12

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002589	Kali Linux	Tool Upgrade Request	public	2015-08-23 14:35	2025-07-14 09:37

Reporter	ifisup	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	unable to reproduce
Product Version	1.1.0

Summary	0002589: On a HP Chromebook with crouton, upgrade to 2.0 fails on xorg-video-abi-12
Description	Command: sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y Calculating upgrade... Failed The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-video-dummy : Depends: xorg-video-abi-12 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. (kali)rootkali@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-12 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package xorg-video-abi-12 is a virtual package provided by: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u6 [Not candidate version] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u5 [Not candidate version] E: Package 'xorg-video-abi-12' has no installation candidate
Steps To Reproduce	In ChromeOS, enter Dev mode and install Kali with crouton: sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r kali -t xfce,xiwi Once installed and launched, I updated current version, added the sana repos, updated, upgrade, update, then dist-upgrade.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-08-23 14:35	ifisup	New Issue
2015-08-31 09:40	rhertzog	Note Added: 0003849
2015-08-31 09:40	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2015-08-31 09:40	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2015-08-31 09:40	rhertzog	Resolution	open => unable to reproduce
2021-05-31 13:37	rhertzog	Category	Tool Upgrade => Tool Upgrade Request
2025-07-14 09:37	g0tmi1k	Severity	block => minor

rhertzog 2015-08-31 09:40 administrator ~0003849	xserver-xorg-video-dummy is perfectly installable in Kali 2.0. Ensure you have upgraded that package to version 1:0.3.7-1+b4 and you should be fine.