Kali ARM, RPI3: Corrupt Disk After apt dist-upgrade

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2018-09-23
jameshayek

Kali ARM, RPI3: Corrupt Disk After apt dist-upgrade

Hello All,

I am using an RPi3 with a 7" touchscreen and installing Secure Kali Pi 2018.
I installed Kali on a Class-10, 8-Gig MicroSD card using Windows.

I have downloaded "Kali Linux RaspberryPi 2 and 3" from the official site: https://www.offensive-security.com/k...ux-arm-images/

and formated the SDCard, and installed the package. I then attempted to follow along with the tutorial:https://www.kali.org/tutorials/secure-kali-pi-2018/

But about 30 minutes into waiting on the update from:

Code:

apt dist-upgrade

the Pi crashes, then reboots only to crash and reboot again.

I am unsure how to verify if I ran out of room on the SDCard or if the tutorial considers the B+ model only.

Is there a way to mount this card on my PC and see why it is crashing and eventually find a fix/solution?
2018-09-24
Mister_X

8Gb sounds a bit short. It may be a possibility that it ran out of space.
2018-09-25
jameshayek

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister_X

8Gb sounds a bit short. It may be a possibility that it ran out of space.

64 Gig coming in tomorrow night. Will try again and update the thread.
2018-09-25
jameshayek

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64 Gigs didn't do it... I have the same problem. Shortly after asking me about my keyboard (at about the 50% mark of using the "apt dist-upgrade
" command) the system crashed and attempts to boot. Same sequence as described above.

Any way to pull the SDCard, look at the data and see what went wrong??

I am using the RPi 3B, 64 Gig Class 10 SD Card.

EDIT: After rebooting several times I see the following upon boot:
Kali Login: [ 16.758475] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p2: ext4_lookup:1585: inode #27: comm Xorg: deleted inode referenced: 126727)

I have several errors and one that says bad header. I also can not load startx

fsck yeilds:
e2fsck: cannot continue aborting

The full error can be seen here:
Attachment 3162

Any tips?
2018-09-27
jameshayek

For those coming across this post..

Solution posted to:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...g-dist-upgrade

While my error was not the same, the above fix provided a solution.
In short:

Code:

pico /etc/fstab

at the last line add the following:

Code:

tmpfs /boot/firmware tmpfs rw 0 0

Reboot or run:

Code:

mount /boot/firmware

Then you can update the package, once done to use the new firmware:

Code:

cp /usr/lib/raspi3-firmware/* /boot/

Quote:

Originally Posted by steev

There is a workaround, to at least get rid of the error

Thanks @steev