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0009480Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2026-01-05 03:31
Reportermrxonymous Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0009480: Mesa drivers are held by apt and not upgrading
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mesa drivers are held back while running apt update and upgrade when tried to upgrade manually it gives error

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arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-01-05 02:30

manager   ~0021201

Last edited: 2026-01-05 03:09

The issue was reported on the Debian bugtracker: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1123931

I wonder if the constraints:

Breaks: mesa-va-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3), mesa-vdpau-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3)
Replaces: mesa-va-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3), mesa-vdpau-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3)

are too strict, and should read <= instead. I will try to reproduce it.

EDIT: no, it's not a problem caused by << 25.2.8-3

arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-01-05 03:31

manager   ~0021202

Maybe it's your second command that is not quite right.

First, you must use apt full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade, it's the same) so that apt is allowed to automatically remove packages. This is needed here, because the packages mesa-va-drivers and mesa-vdpau-drivers will get removed (cf. changelog at https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa/-/blob/debian-unstable/debian/changelog).

Also, if you want to only upgrade some packages, you must run apt install PKG1 PKG2 ..., and not apt upgrade PKG1 PKG2 ... (I know, it's confusing),

The first command sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade should have work... But I see in your apt output ... amazonaws.com bookworm .... If you mix Kali with another distro, then maybe that's the problem. Maybe you installed some packages that do not belong to Kali, and depend on mesa-va-drivers or mesa-vdpau-drivers, and now you can't upgrade because of that. I think that's your issue.

Issue History

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2026-01-03 16:49 mrxonymous New Issue
2026-01-03 16:49 mrxonymous File Added: Screenshot From 2026-01-03 21-48-48.png
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2026-01-05 02:30 arnaudr Note Added: 0021201
2026-01-05 03:09 arnaudr Note Edited: 0021201
2026-01-05 03:31 arnaudr Note Added: 0021202