Kali Linux is a rolling Linux distribution designed for security and penetration work. You can find details on it here: www.kali.org .
We run this excellent product for a range of different security work and it’s been great. I built the image in VMplayer, then shared it to the team and we’ve all been at it since.
A recent update broke it though – black screen, no network and completely unresponsive.
There are lots of posts about similar things – mostly to do with graphics adaptors, however, we found that executing the following at a root prompt fixed it. But how to get to the root prompt from a blank screen?
Linux has a number of terminals available to the user – most of us use the graphical one to do our day to day, but you can access a command line prompt without much trouble. Simply hold CTRL-ALT and then F2 or F3 down at the same time and it drops you to a command line login.
BOOM. Time to fix it up. For me, and for the other fellas in the team, all it too was to issue this command:
apt –fix-broken install
And then reboot. Back to a graphics interface and networking is online again.
Enjoy
This is a cross post from my technical site www.ryv.id.au
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