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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0003945Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2017-04-02 19:332025-07-14 09:37
Reporterkaputjan Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2016.2 
Summary0003945: cuda-nvidea crashes Kali Linux 2.0 (kernel 4.9)
Description

Hello, I wanted to test this: https://www.kali.org/news/cloud-cracking-with-cuda-gpu/

Once I installed: apt-get install -y ocl-icd-libopencl1 nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit
and rebooted.

The system crashed horribly. Stating: "Oh no! A problem has occurred and the system can't recover, etc etc."
I couldn't solve the problem but rebooting in recovery mode and removing nvidia drivers:
apt-get remove nividea* purge

And I'm back at the point before installing the cudas drivers.

Steps To Reproduce

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
root@kali:~# lsmod |grep -i nouveau
no nouveau modules were running, so no black list were required.
update-initramfs -u && reboot
apt-get install -y ocl-icd-libopencl1 nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit

//crashes after reboot//

Additional Information

Machine:

Laptop.

Acer Aspire E-15 E5-575g-53VG
intel i-5 7500u
nvidea Geforce 940MX
8GB SDRAM
255GB M.2 SSD.

(More information, can be provided prior request).

Activities

apatedolos

apatedolos

2017-04-27 08:52

reporter   ~0006596

This may well be fixed in the latest release but I have not tested.

I ran into issues with nvidia and kali and wrote the following guide that may help you if the upgrade is not successful.

https://github.com/apatedolos/kali-rolling-nvidia-cuda/blob/master/Opencl.md
p3ntester

p3ntester

2017-04-27 10:13

reporter   ~0006597

+1
g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2018-02-21 10:00

administrator   ~0008774

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x/2017.1), 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/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-04-02 19:33 kaputjan New Issue
2017-04-27 08:52 apatedolos Note Added: 0006596
2017-04-27 10:13 p3ntester Note Added: 0006597
2018-01-26 11:15 g0tmi1k Category Tool Upgrade => General Bug
2018-02-21 10:00 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2018-02-21 10:00 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2018-02-21 10:00 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0008774
2025-07-14 09:36 g0tmi1k Priority high => normal
2025-07-14 09:37 g0tmi1k Severity block => minor