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Hi guys. I am a newbie. I run my kali using a bootable live usb. When I was upgrading my kali today my pc shut down due to low battery. Now every time I turn on my pc I dont get into the GUI.. While starting the black screen shows up with lots of output and the the command line-> root@kali:~# shows up..
When i run the command apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade it shows:
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg - - configure - a' to correct the problem
I tried all these but couldn't get anything. Please help.
And can anyone please tell me how to attach a photo to my posts so that it would be better for understanding the problem.
Hi guys. I am a newbie. I run my kali using a bootable live usb. When I was upgrading my kali today my pc shut down due to low battery. Now every time I turn on my pc I dont get into the GUI.. While starting the black screen shows up with lots of output and the the command line-> root@kali:~# shows up..
When i run the command apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade it shows:
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg - - configure - a' to correct the problem
I tried all these but couldn't get anything. Please help.
You first need to read the "Question Guidelines" and "How to ask a smart question" links in my posting signature, and also pay attention to the sticky posts in forums. In this case, the ones specifically about Kali. A subject of "bad" tells us absolutely ZERO about what your post contains, you tell us nothing about your hardware, and also saying "tried all but couldn't get anything" is also meaningless. We have no ideas what you've done/tried so far.
Kali **IS NOT** for new users, and definitely shouldn't be used as a normal desktop system. The Kali posts here say that, as well as the information on Kali's website. WHY are you using Kali? Because if you just want to learn Linux, you need to load Mint or Fedora instead.
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And can anyone please tell me how to attach a photo to my posts so that it would be better for understanding the problem.
Describe your problems, rather than asking us to look at pictures. You can also just look at the many buttons above the posting window here, and click on the paper-clip icon.
Ok, so when you're told "Please don't post a picture, but put your description in", you go ahead and post one anyway??? And what about the other questions you were asked?
If you're going to ask for advice from folks, it would be a great idea to acknowledge you got it, and try it. Your subject is still just the word "bad", and you've posted no new information that's usable, and have ignored the questions you were asked.
and you still did not read that screen: read only filesystem. You will not be able to apt-get and/or dpkg --reconfigure if it was read only. That is normal. You need to solve that issue first. Probably the filesystem was corrupted and you need to repair it.
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and you still did not read that screen: read only filesystem. You will not be able to apt-get and/or dpkg --reconfigure if it was read only. That is normal. You need to solve that issue first. Probably the filesystem was corrupted and you need to repair it.
And that's someone who should be using Kali of all Linux distro's to use...? ...when they clearly can't even read the error message that's as clear as day...
I'm sorry but clearly the OP should not be using Kali, if they can't even understand a simple (and clear) error message... please.
I run my kali using a bootable live usb. When I was upgrading my kali today my pc shut down due to low battery. Now every time I turn on my pc I dont get into the GUI.
this doesn't make sense.
if you were really running your kali from a live usb, an upgrade should have just vanished after a reboot.
i think you "accidenatlly installed" it.
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