Keeps rebooting after "Loading initial ramdisk:

Sam2412 · February 10, 2021, 9:55am

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1. Your Parrot information

OS version: run cat /etc/*release
```
DISTRIB_ID=Parrot
DISTRIB_RELEASE=4.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Parrot 4.10”
PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux 4.10”
NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux”
ID=parrot
ID_LIKE=debian
VERSION=“4.10”
VERSION_ID=“4.10”
HOME_URL=“https://www.parrotsec.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://community.parrotsec.org/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://community.parrotsec.org/”
```
 ```
```
Kernel version: run uname -a
```
Linux Gryffindor 5.9.0-2parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.8.10-2parrot1 (2020-10-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux
```
  ```
```

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Version: 4.10
Desktop Environment: Mate
Edition: Security

2. If you have this problem after fresh installation:

3. If your hardware doesn’t work: wifi doesn’t show, graphic issue:

4. How did you get this error? Are there any steps to procedure it?

This problem is occurring with  5.9.0-2
If I am booting with  5.8.0-2 with advance, bootup goes successful
and there is an another error on grub 
 ```
 error: font character not in ascending order: 1157422139 <= 2456651214
 error: no suitable video mode found
 error: no video mode activate.

After updating through apt-get upgrade i am having another error

awk: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.8: cannot read file data: Input/output error
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 1315: ((: < 2: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "< 2

5. Error log or screenshot

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1. Current Parrot version and Parrot version you want it has

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when user runs this / start that, it can do…

3. Any other information about this idea

dmknght · February 10, 2021, 9:57am

You did the upgrade wrong and it crashed your system. The correct way to do is sudo parrot-upgrade.

dmknght · February 11, 2021, 2:47am

Bullshit. who gave you that idea?

Daxter94X · February 11, 2021, 3:04am

i liked your comment about sudo parrot-upgrade? why come off so offensive? i did nothng wrong

Masmer · February 11, 2021, 5:32am

You can use

sudo apt install <package>

but not

sudo apt-get install <package>

@dmknght is a hard working developer of Parrot and I believe the only Parrot developer that assists users on this community.

Masmer · February 11, 2021, 5:40am

Is a big no-no.

https://docs.parrotlinux.org/faq

Masmer · February 11, 2021, 6:01am

No need to delete your account here. We all make mistakes.

Sorry you took offense to Nông’s Bullshit comment. It was probably nothing personal, just upset at wrong info being posted.

Daxter94X · February 11, 2021, 6:52am

i do deeply apologize for that and i was honestly trying to state what he told me i have a fully configured system and i wish to better help in the future ill still be here im sorry. i’ve been working hard on my own projects and getting stressed i do apologize though

Sam2412 · February 11, 2021, 7:25am

Okay,
I will try again with parrot-upgrade

Daxter94X · February 11, 2021, 8:23am

i hope this works sorry for the confusion

Sam2412 · February 14, 2021, 11:22am

Hey guys,
I did small changes after a lot research and Grub error gone away, don’t know what solved it.
I solved that libreadline8 error by reinstalling this package using gdebi and upgrading dpkg.
I also solved the kernel issue in which 5.9.0-2 kernel was rebooting continuously
So all i did was reinstalling linux-image-5.9.0-2parrot1 and linux headers and reboot and it got fixed

But the last issue remains same, i can access the tty but not GUI,
I found some errors from startx and lightdm.service

startx is saying unable to connext X server: connection refused
and lightdm is not starting

before upgrading my parrot Xserver and Xorg both was running i noticed it in htop
but now these two are not running

GUI is not opening, the cursor keeps blinking non-stop, I tried installing gnome-session but no luck.
How to solve it?

Daxter94X · February 14, 2021, 9:08pm

hey how did you update? which commands were used?(:

Sam2412 · February 15, 2021, 4:47am

Before posting this post I used apt-get but after your guidance I used

sudo parrot-upgrade

Daxter94X · February 15, 2021, 8:12am

And what happened after you did sudo parrot-upgrade?

What did you use to burn the iso image on? And what tool was used?

Sam2412 · February 16, 2021, 5:58am

It is not a fresh OS, I am using it since July 2019, nothing changed after upgrading.

Daxter94X · February 16, 2021, 7:31am

try to do a fresh install

did you back up your system to a flash drive before you went playing with stuff?

Sam2412 · February 17, 2021, 12:58pm

The thing is, I don’t prefer to reinstall OS since because we don’t have a solution, I would like to troubleshoot it. No matter how much time it takes. I will solve it.
It would be a great help if you can share a solution.

Daxter94X · February 17, 2021, 11:23pm

you used apt-get before my command so you may have broken your system pretty badly. i would honestly recommend a fresh install or go to a previous back up. you have to always back up your system

i also recommend doing stuff like this in a virtual machine that way you dont break your actual system since you want to learn how to fix something that is broken i highly recommend breaking your OS inside a virtual box that way you wont have this problem again

apt-get is a big NO! i get it we’ve all messed up i did it once switching here. i use to use Ubuntu so i was use to doing things a little differently and this is why i back up my systems. i learned how apt-get is bad on parrot because i used the command in a virtualbox and saw what it actually did. if you still haven’t fixed it by now id just do a fresh install in my honest opinion

Sam2412 · February 18, 2021, 10:39am

Cool, I will try every possible way. I will update you if I caught something.
thank you @Daxter94X

system · June 18, 2021, 10:39am

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