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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009750 | Kali Linux | Kali Package Bug | public | 2026-06-18 18:08 | 2026-06-21 13:41 |
| Reporter | vanguard | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0009750: gdm3 - latest kali-live does not accept login | ||||
| Description | Dear maintainers, withe the latest liviebuild I ran into an issue. it looks like the latest build of kali might got a problem. It looks like you switched from lightdm to gdm3. Additional it let me not switch to another consiole (ALT + F1-F6), because after 10 seconds it switches back to X (F7). However, I could login via network, then switched from gdm3 to lightdm (dpkg-reconfigure lightdm) and everything worked fine. At the moment I am building a new version og kali-live to make sure, that nothing happened at the first build. Maybe you might want to recheck this issue in the meantime? I will report as soon my new build has finished. Thank you for your help. Best regards Hans | ||||
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So, rechecked. It is definetly a bug! Please increase the buglevel. Built a new kali-live and the bug still exists. This confirms, that the prior build itself was correctly built. However, pöease note, that I am using XFCE as windowmanager and NOT gnome. I suppose, that is the reason, why this issue was not noticed before. It would be nice if this ssue could be fixed. Question beside: Is there a workaround I can use, until gdm3 is working corrctly so that the build is using lightdm again? I did not find the setting for the loginmanager in any config. What did I miss? Thank you for your help. Best Hans. |
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When examining today, I discovered, that it works, if I do not add any packages using a mylist.list.chroot. I attach mylist.list.chroot to this message. If you will take a look of it, there is an entry "kali-linux-everything" in this list (among others), so that maybe the other entries are no more needed. Please note: This list worked before very well, so I am sure, this list is not the cause for the issue, but (as above already mentioned), the package "gdm3" will be installed when mylist is active. Working on this issue, I ran into the idea of the possibility, to inhibit packages to be installed (maybe usefull in future, to avoid broken packages) - but I found no option for this, and, well, it was I hope, this helps a little bit, fo rnow I am lost. Thank you for reading. Best regards Hans mylist.list.chroot (3,498 bytes)
### packages we want to install ### kali packages to improve the system # kali-linux-all kali-linux-everything kali-linux-large kali-nethunter-full kali-undercover default-jre task-laptop task-german task-german-desktop console-data isc-dhcp-client # Special tools not in KALI-full linux-exploit-suggester forensics-full kali-tools-802-11 kali-tools-bluetooth kali-tools-crypto-stego kali-tools-database kali-tools-detect kali-tools-exploitation kali-tools-forensics kali-tools-fuzzing kali-tools-gpu kali-tools-hardware kali-tools-identify kali-tools-information-gathering kali-tools-passwords kali-tools-post-exploitation kali-tools-protect kali-tools-recover kali-tools-reporting kali-tools-respond kali-tools-reverse-engineering kali-tools-rfid kali-tools-sdr kali-tools-sniffing-spoofing kali-tools-social-engineering kali-tools-voip kali-tools-vulnerability kali-tools-web kali-tools-windows-resources kali-tools-wireless gvm gvm-tools parsero shellnoob teamsploit veil websploit device-pharmer libreoffice arduino eaphammer fluxion wifiphisher wifipumpkin3 kde-config-gtk-style ### here you might want to add stuff for personal needs adb network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-strongswan network-manager-l2tp-gnome network-manager-openconnect-gnome network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-ssh network-manager-ssh-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-de claws-mail claws-mail-plugins claws-mail-extra-plugins claws-mail-acpi-notifier claws-mail-address-keeper claws-mail-archiver-plugin claws-mail-attach-remover claws-mail-attach-warner claws-mail-clamd-plugin claws-mail-feeds-reader claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin claws-mail-i18n claws-mail-libravatar claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin claws-mail-multi-notifier claws-mail-newmail-plugin claws-mail-pdf-viewer claws-mail-perl-filter claws-mail-pgpinline claws-mail-pgpmime claws-mail-smime-plugin claws-mail-spam-report claws-mail-spamassassin claws-mail-tnef-parser claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin armitage lynx mc privoxy etherape alsa-utils locales remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-exec remmina-plugin-kiosk remmina-plugin-kwallet remmina-plugin-python remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret remmina-plugin-spice remmina-plugin-vnc remmina-plugin-www remmina-plugin-x2go routersploit aptitude fancontrol wodim strace wavemon tmux screen cupp kismet kismet-plugins gvm gvm-tools # spectools clonezilla maltego maltego-teeth lynis aide debsecan debsums fail2ban tripwire amap bleachbit ddrescueview hardinfo2 synaptic python3-impacket e2fsprogs-l10n filelight # thunderbird # thunderbird-l10n-de # bluewho # xdiskusage # nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver # apt-listbugs # memtest86+ ### packages from airgeddon airgeddon dsniff beef-xss asleap # needed packages for airgeddon xterm sslstrip bettercap ccze dnsmasq hcxdumptool mdk4 lighttpd hcxtools hostapd-wpe ### in case you want use airgeddon script ### hamster and ferret are already in the repo hostapd ipcalc isc-dhcp-server ### Virtualisierung virtualbox # virtualbox-ext-pack virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-additions-iso virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-dkms virt-manager virt-p2v vmdb2 aqemu qemu-system ### EEEPC specials only i386 # eeepc-acpi-scripts ### this is for skype only. For version 4.3 and higher uncomment pulseaudio ### for my patched version 4.2.0.11-2 leave pulseaudio commented out. # pulseaudio # pavucontrol ### special purposes apt-cacher-ng live-build cdebootstrap bettercap-ui |
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What if you clear broken packages and reinstall them in full? |
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Maybe I did not declare things correctly. It is not the problem, to install a native installed kali and remove gdm3 afterwards. What I could do, is to edit the resulted squashfs file, so that lightdm is started. This means, unpack the squashfs file, edit it, then repack it and at last put it back into the iso-image. Much effort, and I think it is easier, to configure the build in a way, that lightdm is started by default instead of gdm3. Workaround at the moment: Boot the image, switch to another console (CTL + F2), then stop gdm3, and start lightdm. Anoying, but works. Best Hans |
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Is the switch/issue from lightdm to gdm3 originating from Kali and thus could be discussed here or inherited from Debian and thus would need to be discussed with Debian instead? |
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This I can not say. In a few hours I will know more. |
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| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2026-06-18 18:08 | vanguard | New Issue | |
| 2026-06-19 07:36 | vanguard | Note Added: 0021777 | |
| 2026-06-20 17:42 | vanguard | Note Added: 0021781 | |
| 2026-06-20 17:42 | vanguard | File Added: mylist.list.chroot | |
| 2026-06-20 18:36 | DanSajeed | Note Added: 0021782 | |
| 2026-06-20 20:35 | vanguard | Note Added: 0021783 | |
| 2026-06-21 13:22 | kali-bugreport | Note Added: 0021785 | |
| 2026-06-21 13:41 | vanguard | Note Added: 0021786 |