Tried tons of things and read tons of threads. Would be nice to know if it is possible to run gnome at least with some generic video driver.
What I did:
apt-get upgrade
(after this I rebooted, everything went fine)
next time I did an apt-get dist-upgrade
From now on once gdm tries to start I can just see the following on which it hangs on:
Started User Manager for UID 132...
[ OK ] Stopped User Manager for UID 132.
[ OK ] Removed slice User Slice of Debian-gdm.
[ OK ] Created slice User Slice of Debian-gdm.
Starting User Manager for UID 132...
Started Session c7 of user Debian-gdm.
[ OK ] Stopped User Manager for UID 132.
[ OK ] Removed slice User Slice of Debian-gdm.
[ OK ] Created slice User Slice of Debian-gdm.
Starting User Manager for UID 132...
Started Session c8 of user Debian-gdm.
and this goes in an infinite loop, each time "Session c" is incrementing
I am able to log into Kali using the recovery console and I have internet access. My videocard is ATI hd6470M
I tried installing the last fglrx-15.302 from ATI
here's the installation log:
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log :
Uninstall fglrx driver complete.
For detailed log of uninstall, please see /etc/ati/fglrx-uninstall.log
System must be rebooted to avoid system instability and potential data loss.
/usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh completed wth 0
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/15.302/source -> /usr/src/fglrx-15.302
DKMS: add completed
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module:
cleaning build area...
cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/15.302/build; sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=4.6.0-kali1-amd64 --norootcheck... (bad exit status: 1)
[Error] Kernel Module: Failed to build fglrx-15302 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-15.302 from DKMS
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Deleting module version: 15.302
completely from the DKMS tree
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Done.
I still have my previous kali image with kernel-4.4.0 on which the patched catalyst driver worked fine. If I am not able to run gdm with this kernel, is there a way to revert back the changes from dist-upgrade and downgrade to my previous packages?
Caught on one more thing. When I do X -configure I get the following:
(++) Using config file: "/root.xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported
Backtrace:
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x4e) [0x55612756450e]
1: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5561273b2000+0x1b6899) [0x556127568899]
2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f583bf40000+0x33220) [0x7f583bf73220]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Aborted
contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (same as above along with some missing fonts like The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path.)
