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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0006583Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2020-07-22 10:49
Reporterdl1986 Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006583: Upgrading kali-themes to 2020.3.0 fails when /boot is vfat
Description

Trying to upgrade Kali on my Raspberry Pi (based on the 32-bit Offensive Security RPi 2020.2 build), kali-themes 2020.3.0 fails to install:

sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up kali-themes (2020.3.0) ...
cp: cannot create symbolic link '/boot/grub/themes/kali/background.png': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing package kali-themes (--configure):
installed kali-themes package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kali-desktop-core:
kali-desktop-core depends on kali-themes; however:
Package kali-themes is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package kali-desktop-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kali-desktop-xfce:
kali-desktop-xfce depends on kali-desktop-core; however:
Package kali-desktop-core is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package kali-desktop-xfce (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
kali-themes
kali-desktop-core
kali-desktop-xfce
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This appears to be because the /boot filesystem is vfat.

Steps To Reproduce

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Relationships

has duplicate 0006587 closedrhertzog Kali-Themes Package Broken on RPi 
has duplicate 0006595 closedrhertzog kali-themes cp: cannot create symbolic link '/boot/grub/themes/kali/background.png': Operation not permitted 

Activities

rhertzog

rhertzog

2020-07-20 16:20

administrator   ~0013090

Should be fixed with kali-themes 2020.3.1 that I just uploaded.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-07-17 15:05 dl1986 New Issue
2020-07-20 16:20 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2020-07-20 16:20 rhertzog Status new => resolved
2020-07-20 16:20 rhertzog Resolution open => fixed
2020-07-20 16:20 rhertzog Note Added: 0013090
2020-07-20 16:21 rhertzog Relationship added has duplicate 0006587
2020-07-22 10:49 rhertzog Relationship added has duplicate 0006595