[lxc-users] Issue building Kali inside container

Tue Mar 3 19:40:14 UTC 2015

Never mind my last message. It seems

chroot chroot
dpkg --configure -a

Was just what the doctor ordered. Problem solved.

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On 3 March 2015 at 12:23, Seªnn Giƒƒin <seann.giffin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Running LXC on Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64. I'm trying to build a container for
> Kali that will be used to build a non-PAE .ISO which will in turn be used
> on a live machine.
>
> I have attempted to use the template solution provided at
> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/140 by copying the existing template
> for Wheezy, and adding the noted lines.
>
> While it builds a Wheezy container with the Kali repos included, I can't
> get the .ISO to build inside the container:
>
>     Need to get 3457 MB of archives.
>     After this operation, 8304 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>     Get:1 http://archive.kali.org/kali/ kali/main bash-completion all
> 1:2.0-1 [193 kB]
>     ...
>     Get:2464 http://archive.kali.org/kali/ kali/non-free zd1211-firmware
> all 2.21.0.0-1 [16.5 kB]
>     Fetched 3457 MB in 6min 48s (8454 kB/s)
>     Extracting templates from packages: 100%
>     Preconfiguring packages ...
>     Selecting previously unselected package bash-completion.
>     (Reading database ... 9329 files and directories currently installed.)
>     ...
>     Unpacking libaspell15 (from
> .../libaspell15_0.60.7~20110707-1_i386.deb) ...
>     Selecting previously unselected package dictionaries-common.
>     Unpacking dictionaries-common (from
> .../dictionaries-common_1.12.11_all.deb) ...
>     Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/dict/words to
> /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common by dictionaries-common'
>     dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>      failed to fstat previous diversions file: No such file or directory
>     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>     P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
>     P: Saving caches...
>     E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> to correct the problem.
>
> So I tried a Kali-specific template from
> https://github.com/dulin/lxc-kali/blob/master/lxc-kali but that fails to
> even create the template:
>
>     root at black-beast:~# lxc-create -n kali-testing -t kali
>     getopt: unrecognized option '--rootfs=/var/lib/lxc/kali-testing/rootfs'
>     lxc-kali -h|--help -p|--path=<path> --clean
>     lxc_container: lxccontainer.c: create_run_template: 1125 container
> creation template for kali-testing failed
>     lxc_container: lxc_create.c: main: 271 Error creating container
> kali-testing
>
> Here's what I know:
>     1. The modified Wheezy container only has problems build a Kali image.
> Otherwise, it seems fine.
>     2. Obviously, the template from Dulin is severely flawed (at least on
> Ubuntu), and I doubt that can be easily fixed.
>
> What I don't know:
>     1. Is it a problem only inside a container?
>     2. Is it a problem only in my container?
>     3. When building inside a container, are extra or special steps
> required?
>
> I've tried getting help on the Kali forums and from the container author,
> but nobody seems able or willing to help. Is there something about LXC that
> would prevent me from building the custom image? I followed the
> instructions on
> http://docs.kali.org/downloading/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso to the
> letter, but it's just not working and I'm reaching out to you guys as a
> last-ditch effort to get help hoping somebody has some ideas.
>
> My original post in the Kali forums is located at
> https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?24557-Problem-building-Kali-in-LXC-conatiner-for-non-pae-on-Ubuntu-14-04-1-x64
> if anybody wants the additional details included there.
>
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> wanna say that Seann has the best email signatures of all time. OF ALL
> TIME!" -- Kanye West, 2009 Email Signature Awards
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> http://www.facebook.com/sdgiffin
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