Live Build a Custom Kali ISO

[hotshot247]

for some reason, when i run lb config, it doesn't generate a kali.list.chroot file, everything else that i know of gets generated. i've done this before a ton of times with no issues but then i had issues with my hard drive so i had to reinstall windows which kali is running in virtualbox so i had to reinstall that as well and every since i reinstalled it, i've had issues. any help would be great! thanks in advance! i've tried searching the net for a while looking for answers with no luck

[anubix]

for some reason, when i run lb config, it doesn't generate a kali.list.chroot file, everything else that i know of gets generated. i've done this before a ton of times with no issues but then i had issues with my hard drive so i had to reinstall windows which kali is running in virtualbox so i had to reinstall that as well and every since i reinstalled it, i've had issues. any help would be great! thanks in advance! i've tried searching the net for a while looking for answers with no luck

I'm having this same problem!!!! (also I am using virtualbox... so i considered this might be related, except that I got this to work in virtualbox last week)
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git...... lb config...... and no kali.list.chroot. Also I have tried copying a previous version of the file straight from the git... and lb build would whirr for a long while then quit without dropping an iso.

you are not alone brother, if you find a solution please post it!!! i am really getting behind due to this annoyance.

[jd0]

i am in the same boat. i am trying to create a non-pae iso. I am doing it inside a virtual machine/32bit, I used the documentation listed on kali docs for creating a customized iso, however my iso image is about 300MB instead of gb and when it boots it hangs on a kali prompt and nothing happens. There was not kali.list.chroot created either, so I don't know if I am supposed to build it or not?. Plus this question was asked before but no one answer it, does the build supposed to copy everything on your current environment/all packages everything or are you supposed to tell it to do it somehow?

has someone figure out this yet?

[anubix]

I have retried this procedure today.

-Using a (new) virtualbox VM & fresh install of Kali 1.1.0a.

-Fixed /etc/apt/sources.list by adding:
deb http://http.kali.org kali main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.kali.org kali main contrib non-free

-ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

-ran through instructions from this guide http://docs.kali.org/kali-dojo/02-mastering-live-build
*after lb config there was still no config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
*ran lb build anyway to see what happened

-I ended up with a live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso ~449MB in size
*it boots and loads kali, but without any desktop gui or tools included with the normal distro

There are now 3 users posting in this thread with roughly the same problem, and 2 other threads in this sub-forum on the same subject.
I suspect there is something wrong with the build script in the live-build-config.git but I have not yet figured out how to confirm this.
Who is in charge of maintaining the git?
How can he/she/it be contacted to confirm there is (or is not) an issue?