Tracking and Fixing an Installer Bug

Published

2013-08-29 00:00

Collected

2026-07-01 08:49

---
id: 128
title: "Tracking and Fixing an Installer Bug"
source_domain: kali.org
source_url: "https://www.kali.org/blog/tracking-fixing-installer-bugs/"
published_at: "2013-08-29T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["linux", "kali-linux", "encryption", "debugging", "debian-installer", "lvm"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/128"
lang: en
---

# Tracking and Fixing an Installer Bug

## Summary

A postmortem of the Kali 1.0.4 encrypted LVM install bug: how the team traced an empty /etc/crypttab through the DebianInstaller sources, fixed it in Kali, and pushed the fix upstream to Debian.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** kali.org
- **Published:** 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.kali.org/blog/tracking-fixing-installer-bugs/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/128