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0009234Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-06-27 16:102025-06-30 04:43
ReporterWalexander Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0009234: Kali Live arm64 ISO creation bugs
Description

The arm64 ISO built with the live buildscripts (https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/kali-live) / Apple Silicone (ARM64) ISOs from https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-live have both an invalid partition table, and missing the start-stop-daemon

Recreating: / verifying:
Download / generate arm64 live iso
Mount iso to loop0 (sudo losetup -P /dev/loop0 <path to iso>)
mount partitions, including squashfs (mount /dev/loop0p1 <mount>, mount <mount>/live/filesystem.squashfs <mount 2>)

For invalid partition table:
sudo parted /dev/loop0 print
Expected: partition table displayed
Actual: "Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/loop0"

For missing start-stop-daemon
ls <mount2>/sbin | grep "start-stop-daemon"
Expected: it to be present
Actual: no output

This is different behaviour to the amd64 disk,
If the start-stop-daemon does not exist then apt does not allow for packages to be downloaded
If the partition table is invalid it can cause issues on automated scripts / it typically indicates signs of disk corruption

Activities

steev

steev

2025-06-30 04:43

manager   ~0020712

The amd64 iso uses isolinux, the arm64 iso does not (if memory serves me right) which explains why it does not follow the same as amd64. 

steev@finn:~/Downloads$ sudo losetup -f kali-linux-2025.2-live-arm64.iso
steev@finn:~/Downloads$ sudo losetup -a
/dev/loop0: [66309]:49591594 (/home/steev/Downloads/kali-linux-2025.2-live-arm64.iso)
steev@finn:~/Downloads$ sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
mount: /mnt: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only.
steev@finn:~/Downloads$ ls /mnt
EFI  boot  boot.catalog  dists  efi.img  isolinux  live  pool  sha256sum.README  sha256sum.txt

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-06-27 16:10 Walexander New Issue
2025-06-30 04:43 steev Note Added: 0020712