HOWTO : Bug fix for Back|Track 5

BackTrack 5 is a Penetration Testing Distribution and it is released on May 10, 2011 and it comes with Gnome and KDE as well as 32-bit, 64-bit and ARM versions.

The following solutions are summarized from BackTrack 5 forum as at May 21, 2011 (GMT +8).

Bug #1 : Quick fix for scan modules not working in Armitage

cd /pentest/exploits/framework3/external/pcaprub/
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

Bug #2 : Gnome - waiting for audio system to respond

mkdir ~/.config/autostart
nano ~/.config/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=Pulseaudio
Comment=Start Pulseaudio

Bug #3 : Where is Fast-track on 64-bit system?

svn co http://svn.secmaniac.com/fasttrack fasttrack/
cd fasttrack
python setup.py install
mv ~/fasttrack/ /pentest/exploits/

Answer "yes" when asked during the captioned commands.

Bug #4 : Fix error when building nvidia-current

nano /usr/src/nvidia-current-195.36.24/nv.c

Change from :
.ioctl = nv_kern_ioctl,

To :
.unlocked_ioctl = nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl,

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install nvidia-current

If fail, try the below :

dkms build -m nvidia-current -v 195.36.24
dkms install -m nvidia-current -v 195.36.24
modprobe nvidia-current

Bug #5 : White screen of death (ATi display card)

nano /etc/default/grub

Change from :
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash"

To :
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash radeon.modeset=0"

Bug #6 : airdrop-ng and pylorcon

apt-get install python-dev

Bug #7 : xgps on 64-bit system

Go to the following link :
http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5.2-201002111343/index.php#SWT

Download "Linux (x86_64/GTK 2)", version is 3.5.2 at the time of this writing :

http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5.2-201002111343/download.php?dropFile=swt-3.5.2-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip

unzip swt-3.5.2-gtk-linux-x86_64.zip
cp swt.jar /usr/share/xgpsmanager

Bug #8 : Gnome - Ettercap-gtk crashes while scanning for hosts

Please refer to the following link :
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-5-bugs/40556-ettercap-gtk-crashes-while-scanning-hosts.html

Bug #9 : SET configuration bug

cd /pentest/exploits/set/config
nano set_config

Change from :
DNSSPOOF_PATH=/usr/sbin/dnsspoof

To :
DNSSPOOF_PATH=/usr/sbin/local/dnsspoof

and

Change from :
AIRBASE_NG_PATH=/pentest/wireless/aircrack-ng/src/airbase-ng

To :
AIRBASE_NG_PATH=/usr/local/sbin/airbase-ng

Bug #10 : Teensy/SET

Please refer to the following link :
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-5-fixes/40484-bt5-kde-64bit-teensy-s-e-t.html

Remarks :

BackTrack 5 site

BackTrack 5 Download

BackTrack 5 wiki

BackTrack Forum

That's all! See you.