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0009273Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-08-23 01:51
Reporterm3pPN9 Assigned Toarnaudr  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0009273: Creating A Custom Kali ISO fails with Contents-firmware.unsorted: No such file
Description

installed kali-linux-2025.2-installer-amd64.iso

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y git live-build simple-cdd cdebootstrap curl
git clone https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config/

export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)"
./build.sh --verbose

it always errors with "/usr/lib/live/build/installer_debian-installer: 760: cannot open Contents-firmware.unsorted: No such file"

Get:1 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kbd amd64 2.7.1-2 [346 kB]
Get:2 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 liblocale-gettext-perl amd64 1.07-7+b1 [15.3 kB]
Get:3 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 xkb-data all 2.42-1 [790 kB]
Get:4 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 keyboard-configuration all 1.240 [429 kB]
Get:5 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 console-setup-linux all 1.240 [6207 kB]
Get:6 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 console-setup all 1.240 [96.6 kB]
Fetched 7883 kB in 0s (89.7 MB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
debconf gcc-15-base libc6 libcrypt1 libgcc-s1 liblocale-gettext-perl
perl-base xkb-data
Suggested packages:
debconf-doc debconf-kde-helper debconf-utils libgtk3-perl libnet-ldap-perl
libterm-readline-gnu-perl perl whiptail | dialog glibc-doc libc-l10n locales
libnss-nis libnss-nisplus sensible-utils
Recommended packages:
apt | apt-utils debconf-i18n libidn2-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf gcc-15-base keyboard-configuration libc6 libcrypt1 libgcc-s1
liblocale-gettext-perl perl-base xkb-data
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6080 kB of archives.
After this operation, 32.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Download complete and in download only mode
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
gcc-15-base libc6 libgcc-s1
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc debconf | debconf-2.0 libc-l10n locales libnss-nis libnss-nisplus
Recommended packages:
console-setup | console-data libidn2-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-15-base kbd libc6 libgcc-s1
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/3315 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Download complete and in download only mode
2025-08-22 12:13:17 URL:http://kali.download/kali/dists/kali-rolling/contrib/binary-amd64/Release [137/137] -> "/home/myusername/live-build-config/cache/installer_debian-installer/http:kali.download_kali_dists_kali-rolling_contrib_binary-amd64_Release" [1]
2025-08-22 12:13:18 URL:http://kali.download/kali/dists/kali-rolling/main/binary-amd64/Release [134/134] -> "/home/myusername/live-build-config/cache/installer_debian-installer/http:__kali.download_kali_dists_kali-rolling_main_binary-amd64_Release" [1]
2025-08-22 12:13:18 URL:http://kali.download/kali/dists/kali-rolling/non-free/binary-amd64/Release [138/138] -> "/home/myusername/live-build-config/cache/installer_debian-installer/http:
kali.download_kali_dists_kali-rolling_non-free_binary-amd64_Release" [1]
2025-08-22 12:13:18 URL:http://kali.download/kali/dists/kali-rolling/non-free-firmware/binary-amd64/Release [147/147] -> "/home/myusername/live-build-config/cache/installer_debian-installer/http:__kali.download_kali_dists_kali-rolling_non-free-firmware_binary-amd64_Release" [1]
/usr/lib/live/build/installer_debian-installer: 760: cannot open Contents-firmware.unsorted: No such file
E: An unexpected failure occurred, exiting...
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
P: Saving caches...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Build of kali-rolling/default/amd64 live image failed (see build.log for details)
Log: /home/myusername/live-build-config/build.log

Activities

m3pPN9

m3pPN9

2025-08-22 20:44

reporter   ~0020788

looks like this was caused by my caching proxy
please delete this issue

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-08-22 19:55 m3pPN9 New Issue
2025-08-22 20:44 m3pPN9 Note Added: 0020788
2025-08-23 01:51 arnaudr Assigned To => arnaudr
2025-08-23 01:51 arnaudr Status new => closed
2025-08-23 01:51 arnaudr Resolution open => no change required