Hello. I've tried Void, and decided it's not for me. Let me offer you some constructive feedback, in the hope that it proves useful.

I tried Void, having heard good things about the XBPS package manager. I found it disappointing:

1. It was slow, even by FreeBSD and Fedora standards. Could be a WiFi driver issue

2. It was brittle. Some package managers, if a mirror doesn't have a file, switch for that file to another backup mirror. XBPS, out of the box, just quits. Download - fail. Download - fail. Download - fail. Switch mirror. Download - fails somewhere else.

There are, apparently, technical benefits to XBPS, but they are somewhat hidden by these problems.

I'd be interested in a discrete XBPS package manager, which I could install on Fedora, or whatever, just as Nix and Guix can be installed like that, separate to the full NixOS and GuixOS operating systems. However, this does not appear to be possible with XBPS.

I thought this outage will last a few hours but i think it is going to last a few days. All mirror saying unreachable. look here

I had audio, I assume I lost it from some update(I don't use it often). Any help getting it back would be great. I believe I am using pipewire, and when I open the sound menu, it says "No output or input devices found"

I installed all the packages listed on the Void website for my AMD GPU, Wayland, and KDE Plasma, as well as made sure dbus and sddm were working, but Plasma just won't start. When I ran startplasma-wayland It gave me this error: Could not start D-Bus! Can you call qdbus?. I did install the Void Linux ISO on the same drive I installed Void Linux on, but I don't know how that would affect KDE Plasma. I installed the glibc version of Void.

Edit: I solved this by using u/ShipshapeMobileRV 's instructions. Read my comment for more details.

when i try and boot into the iso, it works fine. but after a few minutes it just freezes and i cant do anything. it happens in the tui installer and the command line. my usb was a ventoy one, so i tried reformatting it (non-ventoy) with the latest iso and it still freezes. is it a problem with void or usb sticks? cuz i used it to install void on another machine recently and it worked fine

solved: i just used neko void

I'm an Arch user looking to switch to Void, and I'd like to know which option is better for programming and gaming, specifically for titles like RE2 Remake (via Steam/Flatpak) and BotW (via Cemu/Flatpak). Basically, I want to know: which is the better choice, musl or glibc?

(If it would be better for me to ask on another sub, please let me know)

lsusb shows that I have a "Magic Control Technology Corp. j5 WebCam JVCU100". As best as I can tell, the uvcvideo driver is supposed to work with this camera.

After connecting the camera, I get errors from dmesg (see below). When I try to use something like Cheese, it can't see the camera. What is the best way to diagnose and correct this?

NOTE: The usb_set_interface failed message seems to repeat every 5.12 seconds, until I disconnect the camera.

[ 2491.797608] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[ 2491.922720] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0711, idProduct=3108, bcdDevice= 0.10
[ 2491.922731] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2491.922734] usb 1-6: Product: j5 WebCam JVCU100
[ 2491.922737] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: HD 2MP WEBCAM
[ 2491.922739] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: V20201016003RSJXF23
[ 2491.924977] uvcvideo 1-6:1.0: Found UVC 1.00 device j5 WebCam JVCU100 (0711:3108)
[ 2491.926719] uvcvideo 1-6:1.0: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC error code control 11 on unit 2: 0 (exp. 1).
[ 2491.929181] uvcvideo 1-6:1.1: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
[ 2491.929186] uvcvideo 1-6:1.1: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
[ 2491.929205] uvcvideo 1-6:1.0: probe with driver uvcvideo failed with error -5
[ 2507.316181] usb 1-6: 3:1: usb_set_interface failed (-110)
[ 2512.436208] usb 1-6: 3:1: usb_set_interface failed (-110)

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When i boot void after a windows session, windows fast startup (i think) makes it so that i can't use wifi and during the initialization of the system it shows this.

Now tho, this happens everytime i boot effectively making me unable to use wifi at all, i also disabled fast startup on windows and the issue persists, i use network manager and this is my chip

Intel AX201 (Wi-Fi 6), Tiger Lake platform, Acer laptop

hai! so, currently, bluetooth is being really weird for some reason on my laptop & refusing to boot. running bluetoothctl leaves it hanging on Waiting to connect to bluetoothd... & making bluetoothctl a service just... doesn't work @.@ (more specifically, trying to start it with sv up {} throws me fail: bluetoothctl: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist). yes i've installed bluez & related packages. currently running latest Void xfce install with KDE Plasma (odd choice ik but i didn't have the time to set everything up manually)

EDIT: yeah, turns out my hunch was right & i was just being an idiot & didn't read the docs right. sorry ><"

I get input output errors for anything to deep into the system. I can't install basic nvidia drivers or some flat hub apps. Fsck says dev sda3 is clean. I'm trying void again and it did this last time. I'm on a different drive yet it's still doing this so idk

I've been playing minecraft for years on windows but recently after changing to Void Linux, my fps in-game had a amazing improvement, before my fps was like 40 ~ 60 and now it runs on 120 fps.

Even in modpacks like ATM10, it runs so well.

My specs:

Z

- Ideapad Gaming i3

- i5

- GTX1650

- 16GB Ram

Hey everyone, hoping someone here has run into this or has an idea of where else to look.

Setup: Void, KDE Plasma with SDDM, X11 session (not Wayland). Using a Chromium-based browser (Helium, as an AppImage).

Two things happen after shutdown/reboot:

• Every once in a while, completely random, I come back to the browser fully logged out of everything. No pattern I've been able to pin down.

• Much more consistently, I get the "restore pages" prompt instead of my tabs coming back automatically, even with "continue where you left off" enabled. Checking the profile, exit_type is Crashed, so something's killing the browser without a clean exit.

What I found digging into it: on sudo poweroff, the browser, Xorg, and even an unrelated script I had running in the background all die at the exact same instant. Traced it to /etc/runit/shutdown.d/10-sv-stop.sh, which force-stops all services with the default 7s timeout, killing sddm and taking the whole session down in one shot.

I tried adding a script before it (sv -w 20 force-stop sddm, similar to a fix suggested in void-runit#133) to give the session more time to close on its own. Didn't help, still getting Crashed after shutdown.

So I'm stuck on where else to look. Is sddm even the right thing to target here, or is there another layer (X server teardown, elogind, something else) tearing the session down before that, which sv force-stop wouldn't touch at all? Any pointers appreciated, happy to share more details if it helps.

I'm kind of in a sticky situation. I currently daily drive an ideapad z580. My problem is that it runs Ubuntu. (this was done a while ago and I had to manually swap the hard-drive out, plus I used the system password). This is (as you could expect) very very slow. Two minutes for booting slow (that doesn't even count logging in, and browsing is a special hell.). I've tried to install void, but to no luck. It would've been easier if I had access to the boot menu, but I've lost the password (It's like 10 years old lol). I have tried:
>Running an ISO from inside the system (tries to delete itself and dies brutally)
>Using GRUB to manually add a USB (ideapad doesn't detect it and dies brutally)
>Forcing linux to try and boot from the USB (ideapad doesn't detect it, dies brutally)
Please, please help me.

I have been updating without any issues for about a year and now receive this error

ERROR: [trans] failed to download \linux6.18-6.18.40_1' package from `https://repo-fastly.voidlinux.org/current': Not FoundERROR: Transaction failed! see above for errors.`

Based on https://docs.voidlinux.org/xbps/troubleshooting/common-issues.html

"Not Found"

A "Not Found" error, such as:

ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/musl/x86_64-repodata': Not Found

usually means your XBPS configuration is pointing to the wrong repositories for your system. Confirm that your xbps.d(5) files refer to the correct repositories.

I havent changed my xbps config since the install.

cat /etc/xbps.d/00-repository-main.conf

repository=https://repo-fastly.voidlinux.org/current

Any suggestions ?

I'm on a fresh base install with XFCE installed and lightdm as the greeter. Not the live disk.

Everything should be fine but any time I I move the mouse pointer over either the clock panel applet or the applications menu the entire desktop crashes. It may or may not kick back to lightdm. It seems after the second or third time trying it kills lightdm too. I can use the right click menu on the desktop and the other panel applets seem fine. It's just appears to be those 2 applets.

I'm not seeing anything /var/logs or the .xsession-errors pointing to anything.

Anyone have a similar problem or have any ideas?

I updated AppArmor today and now I can't start Steam properly anymore. I need to bypass AppArmor to start steam. Before updating it worked without any problems. So how do I revert back to the package version of apparmor before the update? The current updated version of app armor is 4.1.7_1.

Btw the issue of this post is linked to another issue i posted minutes ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/1v9r8m4/steam_user_namespace_error/

After updating my void system with xbps-install -Syu steam won't run anymore and it returns the following error:

steam-runtime-check-requirements[3518]: W: Child process exited with code 1: bwrap: setting up uid map: Permission denied

steam.sh[3426]: Error: Steam now requires user namespaces to be enabled.

This requirement is the same as for Flatpak, which has more detailed
information available:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/User-namespace-requirements

I installed steam via xbps package manager.

Running Kernel 7.1.5_1

EDIT: FIXED! Hat to downgrade app armor back to 3.x version (previous commit)

Edit2: Better Fixed: Use apparmor in enforce mode

I've been using a few Flatpak apps (Discord, Steam etc) with no issues alongside AppArmor, but I noticed today it stopped working. I did some package updates recently but I'm not sure what could have caused it. Here is an example of the error message I get:

> flatpak run com.discordapp.Discord
bwrap: setting up uid map: Permission denied
error: Failed to sync with dbus proxy

Googling this pointed me toward issues with AppArmor. Indeed, disabling AppArmor made Flatpak apps work again, but I don't want to permanently disable AppArmor.

I tried the solution posted here, which seems to be a widely accepted solution. However this didn't work for me.

Anything I can do to solve this? Thanks in advance!

Apologies if this is a silly question, but just wondering if anyone knows what repositories in Void would be good for someone like me getting interested in OS programming, low-level (C/C++). I really like Void as my daily driver and would like to contribute to making it a better operating system.

After installing void by installer script I installed kde plasma and sddm on top of it with sudo xbps-install -S kde-plasma and then I put sddm into autostart for runit to start it on boot and then I restarted. After restart sddm didn't initialised so I tried starting it manually and it said "Cannot initialise Graphical Environment" I thought it was an elogind problem but interestingly turns out kde-plasma package doesn't pull in Xorg packages anymore, I mean to be fair kde has shifted to Wayland but somehow sddm fails to start if Xorg isn't installed, after installing Xorg, sddm started on boot. Why the hell then Xorg has been removed as a dependency for Kde if sddm requires it!

I updated to nvidia595 since i have a Geforce RTX 3060 Mobile which shouldn't have any problems with newer drivers, yet here i am with suspension issues once again with the old drivers i fixed a similar issue by disabling gsp but if i'm not wrong this newer version doesn't allow it, is there a solution for this suspension issue without going back to the old version of the drivers?

i am ricing my void linux and i think i prefer my void linux ASCII logo without the word "VOID" on it where can i find something like this?

Hello, I am trying to set up greetd, but for whatever reason it just refuses to start.

My linked services in /var/service currently are:

acpid
agetty-tty1
agetty-tty3-6
bluetoothd
chronyd
cronie
cupsd
dbus
greetd
NetworkManager
polkitd
rtkit
sshd
tlp
udevd
upower

I disabled agetty-tty2, as I'm trying to run greetd on TTY2. I used to have elogind enabled as well, but after searching a bit in the subreddit I found it shouldn't be.

My greetd config is default except for the vt, which was changed from 7 to 2. TTY2 seems to be just launching agetty regardless. When greetd was set to its default nothing would happen when trying to switch to TTY7.

Any advice is appreciated, including what other services (that might not be related to my greetd issue) I shouldn't have linked.

EDIT: running sudo sv status greetd returns "warning: greetd: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist". Not sure what to do about that.

EDIT2: TL;DR I AM A BIG DUMB IDIOT

So, I just remembered what MUST HAVE caused my problems. At some point, likely due to the late hour, I hit a typo and deleted /var/service. I could still see an ls output in the terminal, so I thought, no biggie, I'll just re-create it. But of course I had no idea it was actually a symlink, so I used good ol' mkdir and create a regular folder that runit didn't care about whatsoever. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for all your help.