I'm having the same experience with upgrade attempts, no luck. 2012 MacMini and VMWare Fusion 7.1.2. Upgrading an up-to-date Kali 1.1 to 2.0. I could ditch the VM and lose nothing of value, but hey, I'd like to get it fixed just ~because~.
This may not help anyone, but here's what I'm seeing.
Attempting to boot gets me to a grey frowny face screen:
Code:
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again.
Logging out doesn't help at all. Screen flashes black and then returns to the grey screen.
I can boot into recovery mode and everything seems to be there and working fine, so it seemed like the GUI was failing. Trying to launch gnome-shell from here gives me this.
Code:
root@kali:~# gnome-shell
(gnome-shell:2137): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to open display. You have to set the DISPLAY environment variable, or use the --display command line argument
(gnome-shell:2137): mutter-ERROR **: Unable to initialize Clutter.
[ 29.468004] traps: gnome-shell[2137] trap int3 ip:7fed17feed30 sp:7fffca7c2050 error:0
Trace/breakpoint trap
root@kali:~#
Trying to specify a display with something like --display 0 gives me a similar error, only the first line states "unable to open display '0'" and ends there, the rest of the lines are still present.
I've tried removing and reinstalling gnome-shell, no progress. Googleing the Clutter/mutter errors doesn't seem to give me any relevant results.