The only other similar report is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/5dc4g5/mesa_opencl_mess_since_version_130/

So it might be related to the mesa update (mesa-opencl-icd in particular) or possibly to the underlying libclc (libclc-r600, libclc-amdgcn).

The switch to mesa 13 happened in early december. libclc got a new upstream snapshot around the same time (a few days earlier).

As of now 15/1/2017 i can download Kali-20016.2 from the Kali.org website and have pyrit run correctly with no issues. However when i update that's when the problems start.

The above post i made shows the output of pyrit using my AMD graphics card that i use on my desktop.

But the output below shows the output of pyrit using my laptop nvidia geforce graphics card:

root@Rapt0r:~# pyrit selftest
Pyrit 0.4.0 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg http://pyrit.googlecode.com
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pyrit", line 6, in <module>
pyrit_cli.Pyrit_CLI().initFromArgv()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 115, in initFromArgv
func(self, **options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 1227, in selftest
with cpyrit.cpyrit.CPyrit() as cp:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 446, in init
p = _cpyrit_opencl.OpenCLPlatform(platform_idx)
SystemError: Failed to enumerate devices on this platform (CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND)
root@Rapt0r:~# pyrit benchmark
Pyrit 0.4.0 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg http://pyrit.googlecode.com
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pyrit", line 6, in <module>
pyrit_cli.Pyrit_CLI().initFromArgv()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 115, in initFromArgv
func(self, **options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 1170, in benchmark
with cpyrit.cpyrit.CPyrit() as cp:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 446, in init
p = _cpyrit_opencl.OpenCLPlatform(platform_idx)
SystemError: Failed to enumerate devices on this platform (CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND)
root@Rapt0r:~#

As you can see the results still don't work but the output is slightly different.

My laptop geforce nvidia graphics card is not even detected at all

I am very confused. Hope this is fixed soon.

You should try to remove the package mesa-opencl-icd (and keep the other -opencl-icd packages).
It seems that the latest version of the package generates issues when co-installed with other -opencl-icd.

I tried this and it didn't work.

Any more ideas, i will try anything at the moment. No matter what i try i still can't seem to get this to work

Now pyrit has been updated and it still does not list any graphics card

root@Rapt0r:~# pyrit list_cores
Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora
https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

The following cores seem available...
0000001: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#2: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#3: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
0000004: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
root@Rapt0r:~#

Update

I finally managed to get pyrit working on my nvidia laptop and by getting the latest version of hashcat i was able to get that working as well.

In ~/.pyrit/config i added the use cuda and opencl like the pyrit webiste says but making cude true and opencl false because my laptop has an nvidia card. So now it looks like so:

default_storage = file://
limit_ncpus = 4
rpc_announce = true
rpc_announce_broadcast = false
rpc_knownclients =
rpc_server = false
use_CUDA = false
use_OpenCL = true
workunit_size = 75000

and it works on my laptop.
Please note that this is the first thing i tried even before making the post and it didn't work but i completely reinstalled Kali linux so maybe that has something to do with it.

However i am trying to do the same thing on my desktop which is running an amd graphics card and i am having no luck at all, even with a fresh installation.
Pyrit is now able to detect my AMD GPU but thats it.

If I run a pyrit benchmark i get the following error:

root@Rapt0r:~/.pyrit# pyrit list_cores
NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found
Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora
https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

The following cores seem available...
0000001: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#2: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
#3: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'
0000004: 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)'

The following OpenCL GPUs seem aviable...
0000001: 'OpenCL-Device 'AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.48.0 / 4.9.0-kali2-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)''

root@Rapt0r:~/.pyrit# pyrit benchmark
NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found
Pyrit 0.5.1 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg - 2015 John Mora
https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+

Calibrating... Exception in thread OpenCL-Device 'AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.48.0 / 4.9.0-kali2-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)':
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 112, in run
self._testComputeFunction(101)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 101, in _testComputeFunction
self.solve(Core.TV_ESSID, [Core.TV_PW] i))):
SystemError: Failed to build kernel (CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE):
./generic/lib/workitem/get_global_id.cl:4:30: in function opencl_pmk_kernel void (%struct.gpu_inbuffer addrspace(1), %struct.gpu_outbuffer addrspace(1)*): unsupported call to function get_local_size

Exception in thread CPU-Core (SSE2/AES):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 109, in run
essid, pwlist = self.queue._gather(self.buffersize, timeout=0.5)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 643, in _gather
self._check_cores()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 501, in _check_cores
raise SystemError("The core '%s' has died unexpectedly" % core)
SystemError: The core 'OpenCL-Device 'AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.48.0 / 4.9.0-kali2-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)'' has died unexpectedly

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pyrit", line 6, in <module>
pyrit_cli.Pyrit_CLI().initFromArgv()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 118, in initFromArgv
func(self, *options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py", line 1200, in benchmark
cp.enqueue('foo', ['barbarbar'] 500)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 575, in enqueue
self._check_cores()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py", line 501, in _check_cores
raise SystemError("The core '%s' has died unexpectedly" % core)
SystemError: The core 'CPU-Core (SSE2/AES)' has died unexpectedly

I changed the Opencl to true and Nvidia to false in the config file and still i get the error.

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing,and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/