metasploit999 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Hey techies, I'm a newbie who's fascinated by Kali. My friend and I were trying to pentest his network when we got these errors: "bash: /usr/sbin/airodump-ng: input/output error" And when I tried to open iceweasel I got yet another error: "Failed to execute child process "iceweasel" (input/output error)"' What is the problem and how do I rectify it? Please remember that I'm a tyro and am just getting my feet wet in this fascinating world of White-Hat-Hacking. So please lay it down nice and slow - in English! Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks. I'm booting Kali through a USB. The version is, kali-linux-1.0.8-i386. My system specs are: System Name: NA [system Summary] Item Value OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name NA System Manufacturer LENOVO System Model 2767W3A System Type X86-based PC Processor IntelĀ® Core2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz, 2534 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date LENOVO 7UET94WW (3.24 ), 17/10/2012 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United Kingdom Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514" User Name NA Time Zone India Standard Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB Total Physical Memory 1.90 GB Available Physical Memory 889 MB Total Virtual Memory 3.80 GB Available Virtual Memory 2.53 GB Page File Space 1.90 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys PS: That poser: "What fruit is the wireless penetration testing router?" I had to REALLY google to find the answer. That's really a good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 if this is a hd install... I would think you need to re download and reinstall... My favorite method of installation is a bootable usb stick with persistent changes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Sounds like you ran out of memory. Since you're booting a live disc off USB, and your system looks to have a small amount of ram, depending on the ISO you used(they have instructions to make a mini-iso as well), you're most likely doing something that has eaten up all the ram since these boot into memory using a ramdisk. Alternatively, you could try installing it locally and dual booting into kali, which will have better results, but you're system alone for windows 7, should be slow as shit with those specs to begin with. 4GB RAM would be recommended for Windows 7 alone. While Kali doesn't need more than about a gig(if natively installed), this would need more if using in a live disc, since that 1GB of ram is used for the expansion of the OS itself + whatever else you are doing, scanning, logging, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 input/output error is just that: A problem with storage. You must keep your USB boot device inserted for the duration otherwise this is the sort of thing that would happen. If you did that it means that either the USB socket is kinda flaky or the storage is itself corrupt. So try a different USB port and if that didn't change anything re-write the image to the USB device. Also, verify the checksum for your download (which you should've done anyways) to make sure the corruption didn't occur there. Memory isn't the issue here - your errors would've been different. Plus, 4 gigs to run Linux is *PLENTY*! Many ARM machines (Pi's and what not) make do with 512MB and run just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 My first suggestion would be getting the latest version from: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Keep in mind, Kali 2.0 will be released in a couple weeks. (Blackhat/Defcon) Follow the instructions here for a basic USB boot: http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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