Dependency Problems

[ImaxAnClimax]

Hey everyone, I am new to Kali and just starting to get everything set up however whenever I go to run upgrades this is the error message I keep getting:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python3-iptools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.141) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 (5.18.5-1kali1) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it?
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 (--configure):
installed linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-amd64:
linux-image-amd64 depends on linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 (= 5.18.5-1kali1); however:
Package linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 is not configured yet.


dpkg: error processing package linux-image-amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.141) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it?
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
linux-image-amd64
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I can not seem to figure out what I am doing wrong here and I have tried the following that I found online alread:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install

sudo dkpg --purge ""

sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt --fix-broken install

Each time I use a command either to install or remove I continue to receive the dependency problem. Any help on this would be great!

[Holyphenomen]

Hi sir, i am going threw the same issue did you find any solution? I am continue to figured out what it is when i got an answer i post it there for you.

[kholdfuzion]

You have broken raspi scripts on drive, to clean them up:
sudo rm /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware
sudo rm /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware

sudo apt upgrade should now work just fine

[Fred Sheehan]

sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y

[Holyphenomen]

sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y

Almost xD i did so many thing i probably did that 20 time xd

[Fred Sheehan]

This might help;

https://linuxhint.com/update-raspberry-pi-firmware/

[ImaxAnClimax]

After running the following commands:
sudo rm /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/z50-raspi-firmware
sudo rm /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware
sudo apt upgrade

This is where I am:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libavfilter7 libavformat58 libgeos3.10.3 libpostproc55 libswscale5
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavcodec59 libavfilter8 libavformat59 libavutil57 libcjson1 libgeos3.11.0 libmbedcrypto7 libplacebo192 libpostproc56 librist4 libsvtav1enc0 libswresample4 libswscale6 libx264-164 linux-headers-5.18.0-kali5-amd64
linux-headers-5.18.0-kali5-common
The following packages have been kept back:
fwupd libfwupd2
The following packages will be upgraded:
apparmor apt apt-utils avahi-daemon avahi-utils bind9-dnsutils bind9-host bind9-libs blueman brave-browser commix cron cron-daemon-common dictionaries-common dirmngr dmidecode exploitdb firefox-esr freerdp2-x11 gnupg gnupg-l10n
gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv gstreamer1.0-libav hyperv-daemons init init-system-helpers john libalgorithm-merge-perl libapparmor1 libapt-pkg6.0 libasound2 libasound2-data
libasound2-plugins libassuan0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-core7 libavahi-glib1 libbson-1.0-0 libchromaprint1 libdb5.3 libde265-0 libdebconfclient0 libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libfreetype6
libgeos-c1v5 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-data libgmp-dev libgmp10 libgmpxx4ldbl libgnutls30 libgpgme11 libgsm1 libgspell-1-2 libgspell-1-common libmongoc-1.0-0 libmongocrypt0 libmpg123-0 libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnftables1
libout123-0 libpipewire-0.3-0 libpipewire-0.3-common libpipewire-0.3-modules libqhull-r8.0 libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libsoup-3.0-0 libsoup-3.0-common libspa-0.2-modules libsyn123-0 liburing2 libwinpr2-2 libwireshark-data
libwireshark15 libwiretap12 libwsutil13 libx11-protocol-perl libxnvctrl0 libxtst6 linux-compiler-gcc-11-x86 linux-headers-amd64 linux-kbuild-5.18 linux-libc-dev metasploit-framework mpg123 nftables nvidia-modprobe
nvidia-tesla-470-alternative nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-support nvidia-tesla-510-alternative nvidia-tesla-510-kernel-support openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless openvpn orca passing-the-hash pci.ids pipewire pipewire-bin
python3-asn1crypto python3-debianbts python3-exifread python3-gpg python3-humanize python3-networkx python3-numexpr python3-prompt-toolkit python3-pyasn1 python3-pypdf2 python3-virtualenv ruby-net-telnet snmp snmpd spooftooph
sslscan stunnel4 tshark udptunnel wireless-regdb wireshark wireshark-common wireshark-qt xfce4-helpers xfce4-settings xfce4-wavelan-plugin
137 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/525 MB of archives.
After this operation, 365 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... Done
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 376444 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 (5.18.5-1kali1) ...
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware:
/etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware: 2: exec: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/z50-raspi-firmware: not found
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 (--remove):
installed linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64 package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-5.18.0-kali2-amd64
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[joomlafreeman]

I went through the known bugs in the bug tracker and found a solution. sudo apt purge --autoremove raspi-firmware running this command in addition to the rm ones given before should solve it. This issue is apparently due to installing from a live image instead of an installer one.

[magic.hand]

thanks for this useful bit of help..at least i finished full upgrade with just those "possible missing firmware" warning messages..should be good enough..