0005735: Kali rolling ISO of doom fails to build

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005735	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2019-10-09 18:08	2025-07-14 09:37

Reporter	llight	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2019.3

Summary	0005735: Kali rolling ISO of doom fails to build
Description	Kali rolling ISO of doom fails to build: 2019-10-09 11:54:43] lb chroot_install-packages install P: Begin installing packages (install pass)... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kali-desktop-gnome : Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. P: Begin unmounting filesystems... P: Saving caches... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information...
Steps To Reproduce	Attempt to build the Kali Rolling ISO of Doom, found at: https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux/kali-rolling-iso-of-doom/

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-10-09 18:08	llight	New Issue
2019-10-10 11:45	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2019-10-10 11:45	rhertzog	Status	new => resolved
2019-10-10 11:45	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2019-10-10 11:45	rhertzog	Note Added: 0011184
2020-12-01 10:48	g0tmi1k	Priority	urgent => normal
2025-07-14 09:37	g0tmi1k	Severity	block => minor

rhertzog 2019-10-10 11:45 administrator ~0011184	We completed the transition to Gnome 3.34. Should be fixed in kali-rolling now.