no valid rapl domains found in package 0 : reboot after kali linux upgrade

Question

I just performed apt-get dist-upgrade from kali-2016.1. After rebooting I got above error which is halting the boot process. I searched about this error and find here that my virtual environment (I am using virtualBox Version 5.0.6 r103037) is probably not supporting this power capping driver. I searched for VirtualBox support for it and found here that it kind of doesn't need it, now I am stuck right now. Any suggestions?

Solution

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I searched and find out that many other people facing this problem with different Linux versions after an upgrade which I did, have checked the Enable PAE/NX checkbox in System settings of virtualBox. It was already checked, I uncheck it and start vm again, the error got passed but not enough to successful load. It now generated Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes and halted again. I recheck the checkbox mentioned previously and again start, same second error. I pressed Alt+F2, started a new terminal, typed apt-get -f install [to find all broken dependencies], it gave me an error during unpackaging vlc***.deb file. I purged all vlc data by apt-get purge vlc, shutdown and restart again and now it has been loaded successfully.

PS: One more thing I also unchecked Enable 3D Accelaration in Display settings of virtualBox

Comments

[Jonathon Reinhart]

That message is just a notice from the driver indicating that the CPU doesn't support the feature. That's not the reason your system wouldn't boot -- it just happened to be the last visible message before your box stopped booting.