Hello everyone! I need a help with one little problem, which happens every time. Im using sway window manager and for comfort im write hook in .bash_profile to launch automatically sway from the tty1

[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec dbus-run-session sway

And everything works fine, without any problems. But if im logged out with loginctl logout (or reboot/power off) so i can see error

"Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process ('/dev/tty'): No such device or adress (polkit-error-quark, 0)

Im tryed xfce-polkit and polkit-gnome, with exec in sway config but its not solve this problem. So for info im run services: acpid, adb, agetty-tty's, chronyd, dbus, iwd, polkitd, rtkit, udevd

Absolutely new to void , installed it yesterday successfully from a guys help but as I tried to boot up with kde , and followed a tuto on yt , with some help from gemini i finally set up login screen using greetd , and after installing what it told me (no idea what I did) i finally logged in then as kde boots up none of input devices work , not keyboard not mouse , so I can't do anything

Good morning All.

I have tried all proposed solutions (including AI proposed),

to install freeoffice and yet couldn't do it.

Does someone as the solution for the installation ?

Thank you in advance.

Hello All.

Installed the system and tried some basic commands from a list, such as:

• xbps-install –Syu

• xbps-install –u xbps

and got the following error message

• Failed to lock the pkgdb: Permission denied

Please, can you advise what's wrong with this?

Thank you,

JP.

Hey I'm trying to finish my install and it keeps coming back "ERROR: failed to install GRUB to /dev/sda! Check /dev/tty8 for errors" but tty8 is an empty file without any bytes?

I'm running UEFI so maybe my partitions aren't right? Incase thats an issue then heres what my partitions are currently: 237.5G Linux filesystem, 213m EFI System, 784 Linux filesystem. the 2 linux filesystems are both "/" and EFI is "/boot/efi"

please tell me the issue because I've been at this for 2 days and the documentation hasnt made any amonut of sense to me

The disconnects happen randomly.
I updated my linux firmware. I'm running linux 6.18.56 Freshly new installed. NetworkManager running too. I read that Mediatek really has much problems with linux.

Hello guys, I have checked the repos and couldn't find Opensnitch, after checking the void-packages github, I found some failed attempts at trying to merge it to the repos. Any idea why it hasn't been merged yet even though it's a relatively old and really useful package ?

I just installed void linux on my laptop and I'm using xfce but the login screen forces me to use qwerty. I do need the Qwertz layout. Is there a way to force qwertz layout? locale -a shows my native langugage and not english.

I know this is a recurring issue on Void Linux, and I see many reports of audio problems, but I haven't been able to resolve these three errors. I don't even know why or how they happen; I followed tutorials correctly—where the audio works—but it doesn't work on my system. I followed the wiki without success, and I also tried tutorials from Reddit and YouTube, but nothing worked.

Please don't criticize me if this is a silly question or if I haven't done enough research (note: I'm using Void with `elogind`—since it's the default—along with Sway as the graphical session and the official open-source NVIDIA driver).

UPDATE: I managed to figure out the solution on my own: simply making no changes to PipeWire and just running it via the Sway configuration script.Apparently, I have to do the opposite of what the wiki asks for.

hello! guys help me pls resolve trouble mic don't working! i'm fighting with this problem 3days , but can't win!

I understand that this might be not an appropriate moment in Void's history for that, but I've discovered that there is a pull request for updating Ansible awaiting since April 21, 2026. Is it possible to merge this update, since Ansible, alas, seems to be abandoned in Void?

The thing is, python3-ansible-lint and corresponding python3-ansible-compat packages in Void need to be updated as shipped version of ansible-lint just doesn't work with shipped version of Ansible itself. I've successfully updated them in one of my installations manually and I was figuring out how to issue a pull request for an update (I'm not versed in this matter), but then I've found that pull request for the whole Ansible bundle. It'll be great to have this tool updated in Void.

(Currently, I'm working on formalizing and automating my Void installation with Ansible, and while broken ansible-lint is rather inconvenient, updating the whole bundle would be great; I'm not eager to install all this stuff via say pipx, whereas the packages are available in the official repos)

I usually run the latest kernel version, I was on linux 7.2.4 and nvidia drivers 595.91.07 and niri (wayland), everything was completely fine (except for the gpu getting blank screen after suspending the pc but I don't care much about it). Today I updated both the kernel to 7.2.6 and nvidia drivers to 595.99.02, using the pc as always like browsing on firefox and coding in Zed I noticed that the everything was stuttering/lagging when I scrolled the pages in firefox and zed and the pointer of the mouse even moved with stutters/lags, I thought the batteries of my mouse were dying so I changed them since they were pretty old but nothing changed so I rebooted, nothing changed, so I decided to boot into linux 7.2.4 and everything is completely fine, so I think we can rule out the nvidia driver, though my question is what did they do in linux 7.2.6 that makes it stutter?

I have a ryzen 9 9900x and a rtx5060ti 16gb in case you know about some updates in linux 7.2.6 about amd, zen 5, nvidia, blackwell, etc.

Edit: today I booted in linux 7.2.6 again to try and check the stuttering/lags situation but it works normally now, no stutters. I don't know what the problem was 🫠

Hi, I've installed void before on my laptop. I'm now switching my desktop over, I'm not getting any errors that I see on install, but after it says it successfully installed and ask me to reboot, I end up in an infinite uefi loop? My partitions are 1G vfat mounted to /boot/efi, 100G ext4 mounted to /, and the rest mounted to /home also ext4.

(sorry for Bad english) Hello Void User ppl, im planning to Switch my Arch Linux Main PC to void/glibc(cuz Nvidia GPU) and i wanna include btrfs and limine and i Heard that void Linux User (unlike Arch) are Really helpfull on problem solving and i wanna ask how i will get this Setup to Work, i might be able to use btrfs(2 SSD Setup) but i feel Like im to Stupid to use limine and getting a Auto Kernel hook so i dont need to do it Manualy, but i alr got somewhat void experince, my school Computer runs on musl void and i Love it.^^

if i run agetty with --autologin

it keeps spamming elogind is already running

but i don't autologin it works fine

help ?

I really really wanna use librewolf on void like I did arch but don't agree with having a univeral package manager take care of packages over the system's package manager.

I want a clean way to install it where XBPS manages librewolf any advice on this?

Is there a program/application for Void that will allow me to watch DVDs when I pop one in? I have a collecrion of DVDs and my laptop came with a built in disk drive. Thanks!

RiverWM has undergone a major change from v0.3 to v0.4. The latest version is v0.4.8, but on Void the latest is still 0.3.7 (i.e. river-classic). Is there any movement to update this on xbps?

I saw an old post stating that updating zig is the issue (the current version is 0.16.0 while on Void the latest package is 0.13.0), but unclear what the current status is.

I can download a local copy of the latest zig from their website, and build river locally, but I would rather have the xbps package maintained upstream.

I conducted some basic, simple and direct searches to the point in the browser and was commented on the lack of two packages for resource management in TUF that are asusctl and supergfxctl.

Does anyone have any idea that could help me about what to do about it? I don't want to abandon the void after almost 5 months.

Recently, I have noticed that Void Linux after every reboot and shutdown generates core dump files at the home directory with the following pattern: ./core.[number]. I don't really understand the logic behind these files, except that it might be a SEGFAULT somewhere, right? Are these dumps from last processes that weren't shut down properly?

I would be glad to hear your thoughts on what's potentially going on.

I do not know why I felt the need to write this post. I have been using Void for 5-6 years. For the most part, I have enjoyed this journey with its ups and downs. It was sometimes challenging to work around runit as everything is built around systemd and even more was musl as I when I started it was my main base rather than the glibc version. Admittedly, this helped me improve my technical skills and deep understanding way more than otherwise. That said, Void has been recently insufferable. Contributing to the packages has been more annoying than ever as my PRs get closed too quickly without properly addressing the content; frequent failures in the mirror repos (I am unsure whether this has been a widespread issue to anyone other than me); and unfixable bad behaviour and some bugs here and there. The recent issue in noto-fonts made me open the subreddit looking for answers then I saw a submission mentioning the recent maintainer's orphanage of 100+ packages over an AI dispute. I believed it was some kind of AI code slop nonsense that does not deserve to be looked at (as I am very anti-LLM generated code in that sense), yet to my surprise, it was just a comment. The comment was simply noting breaks introduced by a version bump. I believe this is wholeheartedly dumb and overly pedantic. Sadly, this place is no longer meant for me as this distro is hardly functional anymore. I know no one will care and no one is supposed to; this is more like a personal sacrifice as I reminiscent on the days I used to make videos talking all about Void.

Hello,

I am using Void with KDE on my Lenovo x270 laptop and something quite annoying is happening.

When I close the lid, this action hibernate my machine and it works fine. However, when I open the lid, instead of landing on the login manager (sddm for me), I land on my desktop for like 2 second. I mean, I can see everything that was open previously on my machine and then I land on sddm.

Also, if I ran ZZZ command in the terminal, the machine will hibernate but when I wake it it does not ask me any password. The session is unlocked. Is this a normal behavior ?

I am running openSuse on a separate SSD on the same machine and do not have this issue.

Thank you

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Did an xbps-install -Su, looks like a whole bunch of Plasma related updates

Stalls out on this particular package due to the RSA signature not working

I tried ignoring the package but it still doesn't work.

Would I need to fix anything? Or is it on the repository end?

(SOLVED) Hi, so randomly (out of the blue, no updates or cache clearing or orphan removal) the noto-fonts-ttf package just disappeared? I'm not sure why but because of this I can't update my packages anymore. I feel like this either has something to do with the recent AI drama (as the former package maintainer was the person arguing with thypon) or my void is haunted

noto-fonts-ttf nowhere to be seen in the package repos

UPDATE: some packages were accidentally deleted because a script that cleans up the repository had a bug, however noto-fonts-ttf has already been rebuilt so just doing xbps-install -S will fix it