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0006585Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2020-07-19 09:192020-07-22 08:08
Reportermb77 Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006585: kali-themes: upgrading to 2020.3.0 fails on RPi 4 during post-installation phase
Description

Package: kali-themes
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB
Arch: arm64
uname -a output: Linux kellypie 4.19.118-Re4son-v8l+ 0000001 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 7 02:54:03 UTC 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux
C library version: 2.30-8
Additional information: Kali installed on microSD card (/boot mounted on vfat filesystem).

When attempting to upgrade kali-themes to version 2020.3.0, post-installation fails with the message below:

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
Errors were encountered while processing:
kali-themes
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Output of dpkg --list kali-themes:
pkg --list kali-themes
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-============================================
iF kali-themes 2020.3.0 all Configure all desktops to use the Kali theme

Steps To Reproduce

Reproducible only on Raspberry Pi with Kali running on microSD card:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kali-themes

Activities

target111

target111

2020-07-20 20:22

reporter   ~0013092

Any fix available for this? Having the same issue on rpi 4
rhertzog

rhertzog

2020-07-21 13:39

administrator   ~0013095

Yes, upgrade to kali-themes 2020.3.4.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-07-19 09:19 mb77 New Issue
2020-07-20 20:22 target111 Note Added: 0013092
2020-07-21 13:39 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2020-07-21 13:39 rhertzog Status new => resolved
2020-07-21 13:39 rhertzog Resolution open => fixed
2020-07-21 13:39 rhertzog Note Added: 0013095