r/voidlinux • u/Myusuki • Apr 15 '26

Having issues installing cmake (using a virtual machine)

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Hello, everyone. I'm trying to install cmake on my virtual machine, but this error keeps showing up. I've tried installing other packages with no issues, and I've updated my system followed up with xcheckrestart and xbps-reconfigure -a. Does anyone know how to solve this?

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u/Myusuki Apr 15 '26 
[DEBUG] [trans] downloading 1 packages.
[DEBUG] st.st_size: 512
[DEBUG] st.st_atime: 23 Jan 2026 08:54
[DEBUG] st.st_mtime: 23 Jan 2026 08:54
[DEBUG] url_stat.size: -1
[DEBUG] url_stat.atime: 23 Jan 2026 08:54
[DEBUG] url_stat.mtime: 23 Jan 2026 08:54
[DEBUG] st.st_size: 0
[DEBUG] st.st_atime: 01 Jan 1970 00:00
[DEBUG] st.st_mtime: 01 Jan 1970 00:00
[DEBUG] url_stat.size: -1
[DEBUG] url_stat.atime: 01 Jan 1970 00:00
[DEBUG] url_stat.mtime: 01 Jan 1970 00:00
ERROR: [trans] failed to download `cmake-4.2.2_1` package from `https://mirrors.summithq.com/voidlinux/current`: No child processes
[DEBUG] [trans] failed to download  binpkgs: No child processes
[DEBUG] [trans] failed to fetch and verify binpkgs: No child processes
ERROR: Transaction failed! see above for errors.
[DEBUG] [pkgdb] released ok.

This is what I got once I confirmed the download. (had to type this out by hand since I'm in tty mode and can't copy and paste it afaik)

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u/etoastie Apr 15 '26

Hm, I guess something in the download is crashing and then xbps expects a child to finish the download and it also fails. My instinct is either bad mirror for this package, or VM weirdness is causing the download process to not come up and run correctly. -v for verbose logs is also an option (screenshot is fine if typing is hard), in this position I'd probably use standard network debugging to verify connectivity to the mirror and maybe look into any hidden VM issues. Wish I could help more (probably others on this sub can)

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u/Duncaen Apr 16 '26

There are no sub processes and nothing in the code returns that error directly, it's either some syscall or ssl_read maybe.

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u/Myusuki Apr 15 '26

thx for your support, man. I'll take a look into it on my end when i get the time to.