installer (debian standard / debian gtk / parrot-experimental) Live Install
computer (ie asus k550jk)
storage configuration (describe it)
multiboot with other systems (yes/no) No
describe your problem
Anonymous mode will not restart once started and then stopped in the same Live session. Restarting and installing a new Live instance allows Anonymous mode to be started once. This happens whether or not the kill-processes-and-clean-caches option is invoked.
Once stopped in a Live Encrypted Persistence install, Anonymous mode can not be recovered by restarting/reinstalling.
Note: This anonsurf restart failure during Live install is confirmed by the terminal command ‘sudo anonsurf status’, both in the amd64-security and in the i386-home versions of Parrot 3.11.
This “bug” complaint is significant because the anonsurf restart failure is a terminal (i.e., final) condition when doing a Live install with encrypted persistence (which, IMHO, is the only way to travel without a computer on which Parrot 3.11 is fully installed (i.e., on the harddrive).1
Consequently, the only way to fix this “terminal” condition on an encrypted persistence installation is to delete and then restore_2_ the persistent settings volume on the separate, encrypted USB. See, e.g., cyberdog’s post, “This is my EASY GUIDE to making a persistent encrypted usb drive,” in the old community forum @ https://oldforums.parrotsec.org/viewtopic.php?id=1004
Example: I had to delete and restore the persistent settings volume due to configuration issues with the change from Parrot 3.10.1 to ver. 3.11 (again, see footnote #2).
For additional discussion and references, and to view the above footnotes, see my new topic, “Running Tails in a VM.”
OK, so if I restart anonsurf (which won’t restart Tor, but says that I can “dance like no one’s watching”), but then restart the Tor daemon, even though I will get a Tor circuit, will Parrot still cloak my machine in anonymity, e.g., hide my MAC address, etc.? That’s essential for communicating with people living under repressive regimes.