Hi there! I've been testing Kali on both Raspberry PI 2/3 and have been experiencing input/output errors several times, both on Kali (using Berrybot) and the official Raspian distro. Sometimes it seems like when running several processes, makes the filesystem crash, which is not a Kali problem but seems more likely to be a PI problem infact. Beef Framework (Beef-XSS) does also have a memory problem on Raspberry and WPScan installation is kinda tricky because of a Ruby problem again, just to have that said. Have done some research on it on my own Raspberries and thats the conclusion for now, that tricky ARM :)

Tip time.. to remount filesystem to read/write, use "mount -o remount,rw /filesystem.example"

Hi Kimocoder! Fisrt of all thanks!
And second, is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

I have not found a solution to this yet, but i will be looking into it the next days. I will put my findings for a solution here when im onto it. This error (input/output) can be reproduced when running a big apt-get upgrade package installation

Ok, thank you,looking forward to your findings.
I have in mind to return the raspberry pi 3 and buy an odroid c2 instead...Should it work better than Rpi?

The odroid got more ram, and the rpi problem is also a ram problem (it seems)

look @ https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images/

For Odroid C2 support.
More ram, arm64 arch.. should work better with Kali than RPI. Beef will also work on Odroid, but not on RPI duo to low ram.

Well, i uploaded a picture reproducing the input/output error. on package installation everytime. I've been looking around for a solution, but it smells like memory corruption over here. On a clean Raspian Lite installation, pull the plug and reboot and run "dpkg --configure -a && apt-get -f install" will fix missing and broken packages.

I also consider buying the Odroid XU4 because you mentioned the C2, but i would rather go for the OctaCore XU4 and performance. eMMC storage for OS, rather than SDCARD is ALSO a big advantage over Raspberry PI.

Sorry you're problem did not get resolved, the Raspberry is the most community loved and supported but it surely could had both more ram and faster storage/filesystem.

Have a great weekend!

Thank you very much for all your answers. I ordered an Odroid C2, I am waiting for it to be delivered and I will tell you how it works with Kali.

Have a great week! :)

I/O errors are not really fixable, they are either a sign of defective hardware (memory, flash) or a consequence of a nasty kernel bug. Maybe there's something in the RPI 3 that triggers such a problem... but we're not kernel developers so that there's not much for us to do about this report. Hence closing it.

Double check your hardware I would say (with memtest and filesystem write tests).