Kali Linux 2025.1c upgrading bug/faliure

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I went through the upgrade documentation available on:

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  1. This kerberos setup is becoming mandatory for me I can’t escape out of it. Is there a way I can opt-out from this because I am an individual linux user not working in any corporation for pen-testing or anything.

  2. I have re-installed the entire linux using external boot drive thrice but if I ignore the kerberos set up and randomly just type anything to skip it then after the reboot of the update the system shows the fatal error of system administrator.
    Error Message Displayed:
    “Oh no! Something gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system cannot recover. Please contact the system administrator”

I just want to update my Kali linux to the latest version released is there any way to avoid Kerberos and the system administrator failure.

My device specs are:
i7-14700HX
16GB RAM
1TB (Out of which I have given 200GB to Kali Linux)
Nvidia RTX 4060

Just reminding that I have the 2025.1c from the latest version available on the internet using the boot drive but after that when I try updating using the:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y

The system is giving such errors

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Are you trying to install the ‘everything’ edition that includes all the windows tools?

I’m assuming your dual booting Windows and Kali?

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Yes this is a dual boot PC with Windows 11 and Kali Linux (Everything ISO of 12GB). But are these details relevant to the problem ?

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The everything install includes kerberos and its tools, so yes, its relevant…
You can start with the default Kali ISO and then after a successful install, add all the other tools if you want or need them from Kali tweaks menu, so that would certainly be an avenue.

a kerberos realm is a domain address like ‘mydomain.com’ so if you have only been using a single word, it will later fail.

brief info here about setting up kerberos on Kali just so you know what its looking for, but this is clearly after Kali has already been installed;

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Is there a way to opt out of this like I would love to keep the everything version but not the kerberos is there a way ?

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I just clicked the pic of the full-upgrade you see the moment I say ‘y’

There are:
Preconfiguring packages …
setting xserver-xorg-legacy/xwrapper/allowed_users from configuration file

After this the Kerberos setup screen appears is there a way to stop the execution of the Kerberos setup statement ??

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Issue resolved, if you are facing the same problem just hold the packages that are related to Kerberos and then you can upgrade the rest of the system.

In my case there were 11 packages:
heimdal-clients
heimdal-kdc
krb5-config
krb5-user
libgssapi-krb5-2
libk5crypto3
libkadm5clnt-mit12
libkadm5srv-mit12
libkrad0
libkrb5-3
libpam-krb5

I held those 11 and the proceeded to upgrade to the latest rolling Kali Linux and hence you can just upgrade Kali everything