Only you know which packages your upgrading efforts installed since your keyboard last worked properly. You should find a list in /var/log/apt/history.log. However it is difficult to say, and since you will need to downgrade the package(s) that caused the problem (which could cause knock-on dependency-related issues with other packages), it would be far easier, imo, to start from scratch and build up incrementally, checking each time if the keyboard works correctly. You could always do this on another flash drive.

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Yeah. That sounds like a more convenient solution. Thank you for your help sir!!

No problem. It would be good to hear which package(s) caused the problem, so please do come back and update this thread when you find out.

I was thinking to flash the usb pen drive and install a new kali linux system on it because i had updated the system by specific packages, but by typing


"apt-update"
After that was complete, i went with
"apt-upgrade"
After that,
"apt full-upgrade"
And then i shut down the system, and then I booted into the kali linux live usb persistence again. And i found that my keyboard was not working.. Also, after updating the system, I found that

So isn't it so that there must be a 2018 system installed in the laptop?


My sources.list repositories are

I don't think you are understanding. You should *not* be doing an apt upgrade or an apt full-upgrade. You should be upgrading packages individually or in batches so that you can determine which one(s) caused the problem. Note also that, unless Kali has some shortcuts set up, it is not apt-update or apt-upgrade, it is apt update and apt upgrade without the hyphens.

I hope you don't mind me saying but I agree with TB0ne. As a newbie, you should select another distro, an easier one, and cut your teeth on that. You will only find problems continuing to try getting Kali to work with the limited knowledge that you so far have gained.

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I actually misspelled "apt upgrade" and "apt update" . I too think that TBOne has a point. I have been using kali linux for like a year now. But I am very much interested in ethical hacking and I find kali linux comforting for me to learn all this. Are there any mistakes in the sources.list files? And is it better for me to use an official mirror of kali which is near my country to download the packages as they offer 100 times the speed i get using the official server of kali?

I hope someone can help you with this as I hardly know anything about Kali itself, just the apt package manager (through my work with Linux Mint).

You appear to be asking very basic questions about Kali for someone who has used it for a year. That may suggest that Kali is not such a great teaching distro after all. As you may have read, all the ethical hacking packages that are found in Kali can be used in other distros too. You can always come back to Kali once you have used another Debian-based distro for a while and have built up some proficiency in Linux. You will probably find that it will make you a much better user of Kali in the long-run.

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this is an interesting detail that maybe got lost in all the noise.

How's that Sir?

because it means that your keyboard actually works, you just can't type stuff for some reason.
(and i find it extremely unlikely that it's a hardware problem where only Fn keys work, and all other keys are broken)

I came to the conclusion of Fn keys working because i was able to control brightness and volume with their help in the machine. Do you have any ideas regarding what packages should be reinstalled?
I thank you for you interest in solving this problem!

I'm sorry, farhankhatri435, but you really seem to be missing what you're getting told. This thread, and your other, all have been telling you very clearly one thing: DO NOT USE KALI. As hydrurga said, you appear to be asking many questions that someone who has used Kali for a while now should know.

Again, as you've been told in this thread before, you have (again) damaged your system by messing about with repositories. Do not. So (again) do a fresh reload. There is no way for ANYONE here to know what packages got updated/moved/removed/downgraded/whatever by whatever commands you ran, against whatever repositories you put in. We just don't know, and can't. If you really want to ignore the advice of EVERYONE and run kali anyway, then do a fresh install of it.

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You're right man. I have been not listening. I violent i must delete kali now.

I bilieve i must delete kali*

Hey! I thank you all for responding to all the questions I asked here. As mentioned earlier, I have deleted kali linux. Now I also seeing that this same problem that i had with my live usb persistence kali, is also happening with many other people. So, even though I have deleted my kali, i would appreciate if anyone who knows the solution to this problem, can post it here. I would like to know the where the problem with the system was.Thank you!