dpkg returning error code 1 after upgrade from Kali 1.0 to Kali 2.0

[Swblk]

Hello guys, I have decided to upgrade my Kali to 2.0 this weekend.

I did not have my source.list modified, so I have choosen easy way, "apt-get distr-update" after setting new Kali 2.0 source list.

But, I took kinda log time, so I have been doing other things while NB was working, and somehow happend that my battery get down a NB torned off in middle of process. I have fixed that by running "dpkg --configure -f" and than again "apt-get distr-upgrade", but there are still some broken packages it seems, which did not fixed automaticaly.

Here is report from dpkg:


rRr-kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
db5.1-util
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up tex-common (5.03) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.8vgshroO
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-generic-recommended:
texlive-generic-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package texlive-generic-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of prerex:
prerex depends on texlive-generic-recommended; however:
Package texlive-generic-recommended is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package prerex (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tex-gyre:
tex-gyre depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package tex-gyre (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended:
texlive-fonts-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-recommended (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-fonts-recommended-doc:
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tipa:
tipa depends on tex-common (>= 3); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package tipa (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vprerex:
vprerex depends on prerex; however:
Package prerex is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package vprerex (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
texlive-generic-recommended
prerex
tex-gyre
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
tipa
vprerex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
rRr-kali:~#


The system looks running so far, but I still would like to have "apt-get" commands to not throw errors everytime I do upgrade or update.

To be honest, I have no idea what are those packages for, BUT when I tried to remove them and reinstall, it threw that removing them will remove also like 40 others packages, which will be little bit too much work to reinstall after. So I decided to first ask here :)

Could anyone help me please? :)

[Johnyy]

I'm getting the same after rebooting following:

apt-get dist-upgrade

Please be gentle, if anyone can offer a solution, as I am a Kali Linux noob. I am very familiar with all things windows and msdos since Windows 2, but this is my first serious foray into Linux. I am running Windows 7 ultimate with Kali Linux installed on Virtual Box 5.0.4 using kali-linux-1.0.9a-i386.iso image. I have given KL 20 Gb to play with. Having succesfully installed KL I went to the faq pages in order to update prior to installing the Nvidia drivers, which someone, somewhere on the internet said I should do in order to run all tools available within Kali. This is a reinstall, having binned my first attempt when it fell over. I am following the instructions at:

http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux

I have narrowed down the problem to tex-common after command:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

dpkg: error processing package (--configure):
dependancy problems - leaving unconfigured


Pic attached of the output - sorry haven't worked out how to get the log as text yet, but I suspect I will have to learn a pipe command
Any help would be appreciated

887

[Johnyy]

Never mind

Unsurprisingly I was getting a few things wrong. But for others with a similar prob...

Firstly it would appear there are no drivers available for my gpu from nvidia for this version of Debian

Second I was using the upgrade/update commands, and sources, available to Kali 2.0 rather than 1.0.9a which I had installed. I was confused by the fact that there were no 64 bit sources for intel based machines. The available ver 2. of Kali had the letters amd in it and I presumed this was not designed to be used on intel machines - wrong. So instead I re-downloaded, but this time chose the vbox version of ver 2.0. This produces an .ova file instead of an .iso. The .ova should be imported into vbox and not mounted as a disc. It has all the upgrades (except those since it was compiled) in it and therefore saves hours of installing

For anyone else getting the problem with tex-common I ran these commands from the recovery console:

apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-dkms
apt-get remove nvidia-* --purge
apt-get remove nvidia* --purge
service gdm3 stop
reboot

it may be that you also need to run the following before rebooting - I dont remember :

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

[mrzer0123]

Never mind

Unsurprisingly I was getting a few things wrong. But for others with a similar prob...

Firstly it would appear there are no drivers available for my gpu from nvidia for this version of Debian

Second I was using the upgrade/update commands, and sources, available to Kali 2.0 rather than 1.0.9a which I had installed. I was confused by the fact that there were no 64 bit sources for intel based machines. The available ver 2. of Kali had the letters amd in it and I presumed this was not designed to be used on intel machines - wrong. So instead I re-downloaded, but this time chose the vbox version of ver 2.0. This produces an .ova file instead of an .iso. The .ova should be imported into vbox and not mounted as a disc. It has all the upgrades (except those since it was compiled) in it and therefore saves hours of installing

For anyone else getting the problem with tex-common I ran these commands from the recovery console:

apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-dkms
apt-get remove nvidia-* --purge
apt-get remove nvidia* --purge
service gdm3 stop
reboot

it may be that you also need to run the following before rebooting - I dont remember :

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Why can change what others have to change anyway / I hope will change gradually and will reach its goal