Briefly describe your issue below:
Im having several issues in parrot 4.7 security that make the system borderline unusable.
The cursor keeps jumping if i even go near the trackpad, even when trackpad is disabled.
Cannot open my mobile phone photos as Caja starts hanging and seems to crash, and now im getting a windows trailing effect when minimizing windows. sort of like dozens of windows trailing out and unable to open or view files.
I cant seem to install new packages with synaptic, as i keep getting a broken packages error, and the clean command doesnt work, and i cant “fix broken packages” in synaptic either.
What version of Parrot are you running? (include version (e.g. 4.6), edition(e.g. Home//KDE/OVA, etc.), and architecture (currently we only support amd64)
4.7 security 64bit
What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
debian standard usb install
Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
yes win 10 ent
If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:
If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:
cannot install packages in synaptic, when clicking “fix broken packages” i get:
E: Unable to correct dependencies````
I have run the apt-get clean command and done an upgrade and update as described in other posts, looked at many support posts, including how to fix desktop managers, but overall its very buggy.
I have done a full encrypted install including encrypted all system folders including the swap file. The swap remains with a lock/ encrypted so im thinking if this is related to the problem?
thank you for any help
Thanks. Pastebin link here in for the full output of sudo dmesg, with cat output below: https://pastebin.com/v6d98DRG
Xsession: X session started for parrot at Sun 22 Mar 08:44:59 AWST 2020
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/parrot/.Xauthority
localuser:parrot being added to access control list
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=parrot
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/home/parrot
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=lightdm-xsession
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=parrot
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDM_LANG=en_AU.utf8
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=lightdm-xsession
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/parrot/.Xauthority
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm/data/parrot
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDMSESSION=lightdm-xsession
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/parrot
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/mate:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
x-session-manager[2390]: WARNING: Unable to find provider ‘’ of required component ‘dock’
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
cat: ‘~/.keymap-selected’: No such file or directory
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
(caja:2506): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:45:01.296: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.AlreadyRegistered: Unable to register client
Cannot read ‘/var/log/kern.log’
Initializing caja-open-terminal extension
Initializing caja-image-converter extension
Initializing caja-xattr-tags extension
blueman-applet 08.45.01 WARNING PluginManager:147 __load_plugin: Not loading PPPSupport because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-applet 08.45.01 WARNING PluginManager:147 __load_plugin: Not loading DhcpClient because its conflict has higher priority
blueman-tray version 2.1.2 starting
There is an instance already running
I wonder if its worth backing up my files, and trying a reinstall with another configuration? Perhaps encrypting all my partitions is not necessary, just the home folder? Although unencrypted swap partitions ive read seem to be a security weakness
I don’t believe your experience could be related to encryption. Best bet is to let the Parrot installer do the encrypting/auto partition everything for you.
Could be a graphics card/hardware issue. Could be a bad copy (did you use etcher/dd to make the copy?)
If you want to try new install:
Download latest version. Make sure to use either Etcher or dd command to burn your copy (I prefer dd command).
Make sure to try the copy loaded as “Live boot” before installing (I suggest NOT installing from Live boot; just run Live momentarily as a test for hardware etc- see if you notice same cursor problem/trailing; install option from boot menu has been shown to be more reliable)
Not encrypting swap poses a security risk. If you need a swap (under 8gigs ram) encrypting it can be as important as other partitions as it holds data from recent memory.
If you have 8 gigabytes+ ram you don’t really need a swap in most cases.