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    apt-get dist-upgrade fails

    i had to format my laptop and re-install kali
    insted of downloading the new version i installed kali 1.0 wich i had from before

    it installed fine, then when i do apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade after a wile i get the follwoing error

    Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libnfc5_1.7.0-3kali1_amd64.deb
    Error: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid : The permission of the setuid helper is not correct
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


    any idea why or how to fix?
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    What did you do?

    1) apt-get dist-upgrad or apt-get-upgrade?
    2) Did you work in init 5 or 3?
    3) Did you try it as root or user?

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    Quote Originally Posted by my68_ View Post
    What did you do?

    1) apt-get dist-upgrad or apt-get-upgrade?
    2) Did you work in init 5 or 3?
    3) Did you try it as root or user?
    Debian always uses runlevel 2 as DEFAULT. So whether in 5 or 3, unless you need to input an script in the runlevels (update-rc.d which is the legacy mode or with insserv if script is using LSB tags), it is in runlevel 2.

    Just to clear things out.

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    Clean the /var/cache/apt/archives (aptitude clean and aptitude autoclean). Do it twice or 3 times if necessary.

    Then try:
    1. aptitude update
    2. aptitude safe-upgrade
    3. aptitude safe-upgrade again to see if there was something new as you were updateing.
    4. aptitude full-upgrade

    Remember, Kernel versions are increasing from 1.0 to 1.6, so the video drivers are compiled with different kernel versions, in other words, you might encounter video issues, which you can fix in an easy way, if any issues.

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    after further search found out it was a bug in debian and was fixed in a later release, seeing how i could not upgrade from command line i end up downloading 1.06 install it from usb

    Thanks everyone
    Last edited by nix; 2014-03-18 at 18:02.
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    Did you download the Mirrors?

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    Hi maverik35,

    thanks for clearing that up. Just a question, as I could not find an answer in the docu.

    Can I update all packs via the gui? Is there no risk? Or do I have to change runlevel for that?
    Do I use apt or aptitude or apt-get upgrade or ..dist-upgrade?

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