[Parrot Linux] Launch Issues

[FiyaPiya]

Seem to have an issue launching GitForce on Parrot Linux, running as regular user I get:

`┌─[fireblade@parrot]─[~/Downloads/GitForce-1.0.61/bin/Release]
└──╼ $mono GitForce.exe

(mono:551994): dbind-WARNING **: 19:11:06.976: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied

Unhandled Exception:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.LoadGeometryDatabase () [0x0000b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.Restore (System.Windows.Forms.Form form) [0x0001b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.FormLog..ctor () [0x0000c] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GitForce.FormLog..ctor()
at GitForce.App.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000ad] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.LoadGeometryDatabase () [0x0000b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.Restore (System.Windows.Forms.Form form) [0x0001b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.FormLog..ctor () [0x0000c] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GitForce.FormLog..ctor()
at GitForce.App.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000ad] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0 `

Running as root I get a prompt about using Root and still get:
`┌─[✗]─[fireblade@parrot]─[~/Downloads/GitForce-1.0.61/bin/Release]
└──╼ $sudo mono GitForce.exe
[sudo] password for fireblade:

Unhandled Exception:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.LoadGeometryDatabase () [0x0000b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.Restore (System.Windows.Forms.Form form) [0x0001b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.FormLog..ctor () [0x0000c] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GitForce.FormLog..ctor()
at GitForce.App.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000ad] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.LoadGeometryDatabase () [0x0000b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.ClassWinGeometry.Restore (System.Windows.Forms.Form form) [0x0001b] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at GitForce.FormLog..ctor () [0x0000c] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GitForce.FormLog..ctor()
at GitForce.App.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000ad] in <0be902d09ee14eb8b284cdf0b8b90325>:0 `

FWIW:
Running Parrot Linux 6.3 (Lorikeet) - based on Debian Lori, Kernel 6.9.7, MATE 1.26.0 (GTK3 compatible?)

Looking at the errors it seems to be unable to draw the window. I have no clue how mono / c# works but the "at GitForce.FormLog..ctor () [0x0000c] in " issue is concerning, is it truncated or a typo?

As mentioned root does give me a message window warning me as such.

[gdevic]

Yes, it looks to me the mono support issue. Did you install complete mono?
sudo apt-get install mono-complete

I am not familiar with "Parrot OS", but what version are you running? x86 for Virtual Machines or something else?

[FiyaPiya]

Hi,
Parrot Linux is a security focused distro like Kali Linux. Just as a double check I checked my video drivers and I'm using the free xserver drivers. OS is installed on bare metal, no VM. Though I could try downloading a fresh install inside a VM and test it that way if you want?

mono-complete is installed:
mono-complete is already the newest version (6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.3).

Running mono --version gives me this if it's any help:

Mono JIT compiler version 6.8.0.105 (Debian 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.3 Wed Dec 14 11:18:08 UTC 2022)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
Interpreter: yes
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
Suspend: hybrid
GC: sgen (concurrent by default)

Cheers

[gdevic]

I really should download their VM to see what's going on.
They have a "Live" edition that needs no install, I'll try it and post the result. Unsure if this edition has capacity to run mono...

[gdevic]

I cannot run none of their *.vmdk on my VMWare. This may need more time; I'll have to look at this later.

[FiyaPiya]

No problem. I'm downloading the Live ISO currently I'll report back. This install is pretty old and had a fair few packages install and removed so something may well be conflicting during build. Mono should be supported, I've ran a Debian system for some years a while back and used to use to run a Mono application, thought it was CLI based. I'll report back soon. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email.

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[FiyaPiya]

Right then. So a live Parrot environment downloaded latest release of GitForce, installed all deps as per README, built successful but still no UI tried to build and run as sudo and same problem as before however I decided to download the precompiled .exe, ran with mono GitForce-1.0.61.exeand it just works as both 'live' user and sudo https://imgur.com/evjNTyN So something with the building from source is preventing it from launching.

One thing of note when building it complains about xbuild being deprecated and to use msbuild instead... Could this be the reason?

┌─[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads/GitForce-1.0.61]
└──╼ $xbuild /p:Configuration=Release GitForce.sln

xbuild tool is deprecated and will be removed in future updates, use msbuild instead <<<<

XBuild Engine Version 14.0
Mono, Version 6.8.0.105
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Various Mono authors

Build started 3/19/2025 5:10:15 PM.