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0006438Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2021-06-02 10:11
Reportervanguard Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritytrivialReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionopen 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006438: Several issues with kali livefile builds
Description

Hi folks,

from time to time I am creating a kali livefile DVD for my personal purposes. Downloaded a fresh git clone and build with build.sh as usual for 32-bit and 64-bit. At the moment, there are some issues, who might be interesting for you and maybe easily can be fixed. This si the list so far:

  1. At https://www.kali.org/downloads/ you write for getting the git environment you have to execute the following command:

git clone git://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config.git

but this does not work. The protocol is rejected. There is somewhere another entry on the kali site (does notz find any more), which is working:

git clone http://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config.git

Please chack and correct this on your website.

  1. Since version 2020.1 and later the user/password shall be "kali/kali". Sadly this does not work any more. I tried several combinations, same as described in the following link:
    https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?49138-Kali-2020-2-live-login-credentials-are-not-kali-kali

It would be nice, if you could check this and maxbe correct in the git or make an information on the website.

  1. The package "sa-compile" is crashing the build. This issue will not be noticed, when you do not install this. I disovered this issue, when added the package "claws-mail-plugins" to the package-list, which depends sa-compile. Please note, that I am using apt-cacher-ng (if you want to check for yourself), but this issue did not appear in the past.

  2. A personal wish: It would be nice, if you could add the packages of wicd back into the repo. Wicd-curses and wicd-gtk are nice packages and easy for use. I found no reason, why it is no more in the repo. So, my beggage: Please put the wicd-packages back into the repo.

General feedback: I am building kali with lxde (32-bit for my EEEPC, 64-bit for my desktop machine) which is slim and fast.
The new icon set is looking great, and the structure of kali very usefull and I like it very much. Besides the mentioned issues
it is a great system!

Thanks for the great work!

best regards

Hans

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steev

steev

2020-06-07 20:09

manager   ~0012894

wicd is unlikely to come back because it depends on a python2 package (pygtk which is no longer maintained upstream) - wicd isn't something we modified for Kali use, so it's not something we can easily bring back since it has been removed from Debian testing - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wicd - there are python3 forks of it, e.g. https://github.com/PXke/wicd-reloaded but that isn't packaged anywhere, as far as I know. Since we pull from Debian testing, when it was removed there, it was removed here as well (and the missing dependency means it won't install)

Can you provide the full output of the build with sa-compile crashing?

kali/kali should be the correct login credentials, the only time it should be different is an actual installation where the user creates their username and password.

And you are correct for the git url, it is a holdover from when our repositories were hosted on github.

vanguard

vanguard

2020-06-08 12:49

reporter   ~0012897

Hi,
thanks for the quick answer. For wicd I will find a similar tool, which is as easy to use as wicd. Maybe network-manager might be my choice.

kali/kali does not work, rechecked. Maybe this is a problem in your configuration files of git used by live-build. Would be nice if you could recheck this.

Withthe git-problem, maybe you might want to enter a uniique entry on your site, so that it is telling the same correct thing in your documentation.. Just a suggestion.

And last but not least, for sa-compile I uploaded my build.log, hope it will be usefull.

Thank you very much for your help.

build.log (1,245,262 bytes)
steev

steev

2020-06-13 17:37

manager   ~0012917

Setting up sa-compile (3.4.4-1) ...
Running sa-compile (may take a long time)
chmod: cannot access '/var/lib/spamassassin/compiled': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package sa-compile (--configure):
installed sa-compile package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

So it looks like the post-install is trying to chmod the directory that doesn't exist because there are no spam assassin rules to convert (I'm just guessing based on the package without looking closer) - this is a Debian package, not one that we modify, so it's probably better to submit an issue to the Debian bug tracker.

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2021-06-02 10:11

administrator   ~0014656

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. 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/get-kali/)?
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
2020-06-07 08:29 vanguard New Issue
2020-06-07 20:09 steev Note Added: 0012894
2020-06-08 12:49 vanguard File Added: build.log
2020-06-08 12:49 vanguard Note Added: 0012897
2020-06-13 17:37 steev Note Added: 0012917
2021-06-02 10:11 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0014656
2021-06-02 10:11 g0tmi1k Status new => closed