2016.1 upgrade failure

[Dark Eagle]

Hello. I wanted to upgrade from Kali Linux 2.0 Sana to Kali Linux Rolling 2016.1, so I issued the following commands in the terminal:

1) apt-get update
2) apt-get dist-upgrade
3) reboot

During the dist-upgrade, I noticed much and sometimes long laggings while unpacking and setting up the fetched packages, but this didn't stop the upgrade. However, When the upgrade was complete and I rebooted the system and tried to access the login screen, It was only a black screen (not a terminal, but a black GUI login screen that doesn't contain anything except the mouse cursor) with the mouse cursor in the middle and the system in a complete lag state: the mouse and keyboard are both unresponsive; If I move the mouse, the cursor doesn't move, and if I strike a keyboard key, nothing happens: Ctrl + Alt + F1 doesn't get a shell or does anything and pressing on the Caps Lock key doesn't even turn the key's bulb, which means that the keyboard itself is totally unresponsive. The only way to get a shell is through the recovery mode option in the grub, but then I also can't access the GUI but can switch between the shells via Ctrl + Alt + F1..F6 (F7 is the GUI and hence turns the system unresponsive.) I also have a problem with wlan0:

airodumb-ng wlan0 => wlan0: No such device
ifconfig wlan0 up => wlan0: link is not ready

which means that I cannot update or upgrade my system or use any other online feature. Please Help.
Thanks.

[WilsonFlips]

Did you follow the upgrade instructions for 2.0 -> Rolling...? Wonder if that's the issue.


Migrating from Kali sana (2.0) to Kali rolling is simple. As root, you can run the following commands and be on your way:


cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
EOF

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10.
reboot

Please note that the Kali sana repositories will no longer be updated and will be EOL’d on the 15th of April 2016.

Instructions available @:
https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-rolling-edition-2016-1/

[Dark Eagle]

Did you follow the upgrade instructions for 2.0 -> Rolling...? Wonder if that's the issue.



Instructions available @:
https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-rolling-edition-2016-1/

I did. I followed the instructions step by step.

[grid]

At this point, I'd say your best option is to reinstall.

[Dark Eagle]

Unfortunately, that's what I did. I lost everything I had on the old Kali Linux. :(:mad:

[grid]

Sorry to hear that, Dark Eagle :( I suggest posting this on the bug tracker at bugs.kali.org

[Edmund]

Well, last week I made live USB-stick persistence with "kali-linux-2017-W03-amd64" (which I BTW cannot find anymore on the Kali website!!) worked fine until I did an update, the update hangs and I was forced to reboot.
Now the USB-stick doesn't boot anymore.
Since I cannot find "kali-linux-2017-W03-amd64" anywhere and no "kali-linux-2017-W04-amd64" either I used the 2016.2
Now the live version ends up with a none responsive keyboard an a none responsive mouse, I cannot do anything.
Tried on 2 computers, one laptop, (Tuxedo specially bought because it is Linux compatible ) one desktop ( Medion-intel ).
The failsave option gives a working keyboard on at least the laptop, didn't try it on the Desktop.
I found something via google but I must read more about it how to fix this without a mouse or keyboard.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3013994/keyboard-stops-working-kali-linux-usb-install.html