Hi,
I’ve installed Parrot yesterday and having difficulties shutting it down. At first, every times I stopped the computer (shutdown or restart, from the GUI or command) the screen just freezes as it was and nothing happened. Then I found somewhere that I should update my Nvidia drivers, so I followed this tutorial.
After the reboot described in this doc, I wasn’t able to start parrot anymore, after the grub selection I was just seeing the loading screen, then a black screen with a white _ on the left top corner.
To fix this I had to add “acpi=off” to my grub boot command (then I persisted it in /etc/default/grub).
Now, I can start parrot and restart works like a charm, but I still can’t shutdown : now it seems to work at first, shows me the shutdown loading screen and freeze on that.
I was not able to execute the last part of the nvidia update doc thought, the command optirun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
returns me “[ 1008.591039] [ERROR]No bridge found. Try installing primus or virtualgl.” (So I’ll probably install one of those, but wanted someone opinion first).
I don’t know if what I’ve been doing is right, especially the acpi=off, it seems to work but I feel it’s strange to have to do that to be able to boot…
Another problem, may be related somehow, but when I press my physical power/shutdown button, the computer shutdown instantly (like really, it’s immediate), but from my Parrot config it supposed to shows me a prompt to choose what to do. Don’t know why, but really strange.
Thanks to anyone who read this till the end
What version of Parrot are you running? Parrot Security 4.2 x64 on a Razer Blade 2016
What method did you use to install Parrot? Debian standard, with additional steps described here because de grub was not working
Configured to multiboot with other systems? Yes, Windows 10 installed first, then Parrot
If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:
https://community.parrotsec.org/t/big-bug-here/3026
If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:
Nothing, it just freezes