Parrot (XFCE) 4.11 Beta Testing

Well it must be light-locker ran before somehow i think

Maybe run the setup script multiple times fix problem

The Redis server is no longer starting.

   OK: scanner (db_address setting) is configured properly using the redis-server socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock
    ERROR: redis-server is not running or not listening on socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock
    FIX: You should start the redis-server with 'systemctl start [email protected]' or configure it to listen on socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock

I’ve already

sudo pluma /etc/redis/redis.conf
And uncommented the following lines:
unixsocket /var/run/redis/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 700

And tried restarting the service and also Parrot with no luck. I’ll work on it later. Thanks.

Weird. standalone redis started just fine on my vm. And unfortunately i removed the old VM that installed gvm. Can you try check any logs from journalctl?

The log just said that that redis could not start. LOL

I took a nap and followed some directions online. I used Synaptic to reinstall Redis and the various OpenVAS/Greenbone packages and this time gvm-check-setup (and gvm-setup) worked, again. :grinning:

executing “gvm-check-setup”

[sudo] password for a-man:
gvm-check-setup 20.8.0
Test completeness and readiness of GVM-20.8.0
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS (Scanner)…
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 20.8.0.
OK: Server CA Certificate is present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/servercert.pem.
Checking permissions of /var/lib/openvas/gnupg/*
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/gnupg
OK: redis-server is present.
OK: scanner (db_address setting) is configured properly using the redis-server socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock
OK: redis-server is running and listening on socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock.
OK: redis-server configuration is OK and redis-server is running.
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/plugins
OK: NVT collection in /var/lib/openvas/plugins contains 64519 NVTs.
Checking that the obsolete redis database has been removed
OK: No old Redis DB
OK: ospd-OpenVAS is present in version 20.8.0.
Step 2: Checking GVMD Manager …
OK: GVM Manager (gvmd) is present in version 20.08.0.
Step 3: Checking Certificates …
OK: GVM client certificate is valid and present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/clientcert.pem.
OK: Your GVM certificate infrastructure passed validation.
Step 4: Checking data …
OK: SCAP data found in /var/lib/gvm/scap-data.
OK: CERT data found in /var/lib/gvm/cert-data.
Step 5: Checking Postgresql DB and user …
OK: Postgresql version and default port are OK.
gvmd | _gvm | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
OK: At least one user exists.
Step 6: Checking Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) …
Oops, secure memory pool already initialized
OK: Greenbone Security Assistant is present in version 20.08.0~git.
Step 7: Checking if GVM services are up and running …
OK: ospd-openvas service is active.
Starting gvmd service
Waiting for gvmd service
OK: gvmd service is active.
Starting greenbone-security-assistant service
Waiting for greenbone-security-assistant service
OK: greenbone-security-assistant service is active.
Step 8: Checking few other requirements…
OK: nmap is present in version 20.08.0~git.
OK: ssh-keygen found, LSC credential generation for GNU/Linux targets is likely to work.
WARNING: Could not find makensis binary, LSC credential package generation for Microsoft Windows targets will not work.
SUGGEST: Install nsis.
OK: SELinux is disabled.
OK: xsltproc found.
WARNING: Your password policy is empty.
SUGGEST: Edit the /etc/gvm/pwpolicy.conf file to set a password policy.
It seems like your GVM-20.8.0 installation is OK.

Wait even sudo journalctl -b -u <redis service name>? that is illegal

Sorry, I was tired. A month or so ago when I was trying to get “OpenVAS” working on my laptops and trying the recommended journalctl -xe (?) command I didn’t find it helpful, and this time all I really saw was messages about redis couldn’t start.

I knew I did some trick to fix it and I remember reinstalling redis and openvas at some point fixing something so I tried it again and it worked. The journalctl output probably said more stuff that I couldn’t decipher. As I’m studying for the Linux+ certification, I will probably understand how to use and interpret troubleshooting tools like journalctl in the next few months. :woozy_face:

-xe flag shows you everything. Like logs of whole system and -b -u <service name> or -u -b <service name> i don’t really remember shows you the log of only service that you want to check :smiley:

Don’t forget using Enter to scroll down. The journalctl likely uses more to show output.

It took me a month to detect a bug in AnonSurf and i learned the -u -b flag. Everything showed after that haha. That was painful.

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Downloading the Parrot 4.11 Security Beta 3 now, will also be testing out Parrot 4.11 XFCE Beta 3 soon!

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thank you. I downloaded it and had quick look at the live mode. Everything is beautiful. Redshift is still there and we have a plan to fix it.

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Tried out the 4.11 Beta 3 for Parrot Security for a day and it was like using 4.10. I just wiped it and installed the 4.11 Beta 3 Parrot Home XFCE.

As you undoubtedly know, quitting Redshift from the panel makes it quickly disappear and then reappear enabled, even if it was disabled before attempting to quit.

IMO, the AnonSurf GUI could use the same icon as used in the Anon Surf menu instead of no icon.

Do we need a sub-menu in the Privacy menu for AnonSurf if there is just one app in it? Nevermind, I just installed the CLI which gave additional menu icons. In Synaptic the description is “Command Line Interfaced for AnonSurf”.

I’ll keep using… :slight_smile:

OH yeah. Idk did Palinuro added redshift or it was installed by some packages (depends maybe) but we can remove it. The funny thing is redshift is not activated in “startup applications” and it was enabled at boot for no reason (in fact it has the problem after a new update) and nobodies changed anything :smiley:

It has no icon? that is impossible. Maybe the screen is too small so the icon had bug. I’ll check it again on VM.

The problem is from when i changed the name of package. I edited the parrot-interface to fix this (include both gtk and cli) but it wasn’t installed. We’ll fix that as well :smiley:

@Masmer oh i forgot about this: what if you use git with ssh key on the beta 3 xfce? Do you have the keyring prompt as same as on Mate?

I followed a tutorial on setting up GitHub with my generated ssh key. I don’t know if that is all you needed or if I need to do something to download a project like [email protected]:BullsEye0/shodan-eye.git to trigger a keyring prompt.

I had to manually give it an icon.

2021-02-23_05-01

Well i meant something like git clone on a repo that you added ssh key. So in Mate, you can have “do you want to save it to keyring” with “current session” “until logout”, … and ofc you don’t need to provide password everytime you need it. It is gnome-ssh-keyring-agent as i remember.

That is very strange. It belongs to parrot-menu. Let me check it

Icon on fresh beta 3 is just fine for me. It could be a bug of icon path but if it is, the error should be showed in my VM as well
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Hi,

When parrot Home 4.11 stable will be relesead ?

THX

[4.11,beta,kde,sandisk install,dell7248.dualquad i5 7thgen,32gb ram 1tbssd
64gb sandisk sd for legacy boots
i had the same "undetected or malformed " error while installing onto a fresh ssd via sandisk,
on 2 different boot configs…“legacy and eui” times 2 more one time direct iso download then
torrent…same outcome…same error…and could only install “live”
postgresql wont init,ive been through all configs ,tried different ports/sockets/purge,reinstalls still wont listen for some reason,so “gvm” wont run either and envokeing konsole via “ctl+alt+t” throws this
bash: Set: command not found
┌─[anomili@prott]─[~]
└──╼ $
i cant find the soarce of it .

Examine the log output.
2021-02-26 15:39:17.112 UTC [988] FATAL: could not load server certificate file “/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem”: No such file or directory
2021-02-26 15:39:17.114 UTC [988] LOG: database system is shut down
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
┌─[root@prott]─[/var/log/postgresql]
└──╼ #Preformatted text

this is the postgresql log.,i tried to purge snakeoil,but it would have broke a lot of pkgs,ive never even used it before