BackTrack 5 cannot connect to msfconsole after updating

[dumbo]

i recently downloaded BT5 from the website and installled it on a vertiual machine. once installation is finished i tried to update everything using the setps below

#apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

After that i tried to updating Metasploit by uninstalling and then reinstalled it, guessing that this would installed latested Metasploit, like below

#cd /opt/framework3
/opt/framework3#./uninstall
/opt/framework3#apt-get install metasploit

Then i tried to connecting to msfconsole , but it gave me an error asshown below

#msfconsole

shell-init:error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
shell-init:error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
shell-init:error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
/opt/metasploit/msf3/lib/fastlib.rb:362:in 'pwd' : No such file or directory - getcwd (errno: : ENOENT)
from /opt/metasploit/msf3/lib/fastlib.rb:362: in '<mudle:Kernel>'
from /opt/metasploit/msf3/lib/fastlib.rb:355: in '<top (required)>'
from /opt/metasploit/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36: in 'require'
from /opt/metasploit/ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36: in 'require'
from /opt/metasploit/msf3/msfconsole:18: in '<main>'

can anyone help or can anyone tell me how to update metasploit on BT5, if im doing it wrongly.

Thanks

[sickness]

Try purging it using apt-get than reinstalling.

[dumbo]

Try purging it using apt-get than reinstalling.

Do u mean to run fellowing commands accordingly

# apt-get purge framework3

To install the updated version,
#apt-get update && apt-get install framework3

whats the difference doing ./uninstall and purge framework3?

[sickness]

I was thinking maybe purge than git clone the latest release and try that out.

[VulpiArgenti]

can anyone help or can anyone tell me how to update metasploit on BT5, if im doing it wrongly.

I think this was where you went wrong: "/opt/framework3#./uninstall". You don't ever need to uninstall, unless it's broken (which it now is for you ).

The current version of the framework is 4.x, not 3. It's path is /opt/metasploit/msf3, not /opt/framework3.

I would suggest purging/deleting every reference to metasploit you can find, whatever version, then "apt-get install metasploit". May be easier just to re-install BT5R3.

Once you have an intact version of metasploit, update simply by "msfupdate" from the BT menu, or from the msfconsole command-line.

[dumbo]

I think this was where you went wrong: "/opt/framework3#./uninstall". You don't ever need to uninstall, unless it's broken (which it now is for you ).

The current version of the framework is 4.x, not 3. It's path is /opt/metasploit/msf3, not /opt/framework3.

I would suggest purging/deleting every reference to metasploit you can find, whatever version, then "apt-get install metasploit". May be easier just to re-install BT5R3.

Once you have an intact version of metasploit, update simply by "msfupdate" from the BT menu, or from the msfconsole command-line.

I did what as sickness told me to do..and it works..now i can connect to msfconsole and it got updated, version is v4.0.0 now. But there is another issue now. I want to connect to mysql db. When i try db_driver under msfconsole i only get postgresql driver available. And there is another message that says " Enable the mysql driver with the following command: $gem install mysql and also to intall libmysqlclient-dev" I did both but still same thing happens, only postgresql is available and same message displayed.

Any help?

[Osirium]

In the same thread line I'm encountering another issue when I'm trying to install it from apt-get :

"
apt-get install metasploit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
metasploit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 277MB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/testing metasploit 4.4.0-bt2 [277MB]
Get:2 http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/testing metasploit 4.4.0-bt2 [277MB]
Fetched 276MB in 3s (79.3MB/s)
Failed to fetch http://64.repository.backtrack-linux...-bt2_amd64.deb Hash Sum mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
"


Firstly I've done:

1. apt-get purge metasploit

2. apt-get update --fix-missing

However, the issue still shows as I've described earlier.

Any thoughts?

Thanks much....