Rolling Kali and updating issues

[zeppy]

I haven't had much luck using the rolling repo listed at http://docs.kali.org/general-use/kal...t-repositories

On one, it was a fresh install of 64-bit 2016.1. Perhaps I initially updated it using the default repos (I don't recall), but then I edited the /etc/apt/sources.list and commented out the two default repos, and then added:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free


(so to confirm, the above line was the ONLY active entry in my sources.list file)


Then I do a 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade', and it keeps getting stuck (more like looping, as if it's trying to do a GET over and over again on the same file).


In another case, it was an existing Kali I've had installed for a while:

DISTRIB_ID=Kali
DISTRIB_RELEASE=2.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=sana
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux 2.0"
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux 2.0 (sana)"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2.0 (sana)"
VERSION_ID="2.0"



I did the same thing (commented out the default sources.list entries and added the rolling one), I kept running into issues, then tried with a 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -f' , then at some point in retrying it looked like it was done and to test I rebooted and it wouldn't boot up.



So am I doing this right or should I have more than one line in my /etc/sources.list file.

I must be doing something wrong as I don't see other people having all kinds of issues.


Thanks

[bob79]

as docs.kali.org says.. for rolling the right rep are

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

this is how your /etc/apt/sources.list should look like
for kali sana should look like this

deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free

[zeppy]

Ok thanks so the only difference with what I was trying, was that I had the deb-src rolling line commented out.

I'm trying it again now on both systems, on one it's still running so I'll cross my fingers.


On the older build that I've been using a while (the details in my first post), it is erroring with:


Calculating upgrade... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-packagekit : Breaks: gnome-packagekit-session (< 3.16.0) but 3.14.0-1 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.



I tried it these ways:

apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade
apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade -f



What is the best way to overcome this?

Thanks again

[bob79]

i don't use rolling, but from what i heard "&&" doesn't always work. so try them one by one
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot