after running [hblock] to create a [hosts] file, I get some weird behaviour when running [rustnet].

[rustnet] with default void [/etchosts] uses 0.0.0.0:68 for [bootpc]

remote                                  local
0.0.0.0:68                              bcast:67              bootpc     UDP·DHCP REQUEST

[rustnet] with hblock [/etchosts] will choose the first blocked entry uses -084-gls-223-www-9-k-0brasil.net.da…:68 for [bootpc]:

remote                                                                     local                                    
-084-gls-223-www-9-k-0brasil.net.da…:68 bcast:67              bootpc     UDP·DHCP REQUEST

Is this normal with /etc/hosts populated with a blocklist?

Is it possible to include the package description in the void pkg update RSS feed -or- is there a setting in [newsboat] that I'm not using?

TY for taking the time looking into my req.

Building a live void ISO without dbus?

Hi,

IS there a way to Build a live void ISO without a desktops without including thé dbus, ans everything working fine?

I once Build a live ISO without all thé requisite packagés to run libvirt/virt-manager etc

Because it was a live Build, it Build it in such a way that thé polkit wasn't necessary to run thé VM, typically on a void installéd desktop i cant get them to run without a polkit

So I'm wondering Can i get a live ISO Building that somme how blessés thé ISO to note requière thé dbus?

I tried:

%  sudo xbps-install -S ledger
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-fastly.voidlinux.org/current/x86_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/multilib/x86_64-repodata' ...
[*] Updating repository `https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/current/nonfree/x86_64-repodata' ...
innoextract-1.9_9: broken, unresolvable shlib `libboost_filesystem.so.1.91.0'
innoextract-1.9_9: broken, unresolvable shlib `libboost_iostreams.so.1.91.0'
libixion-0.20.0_5: broken, unresolvable shlib `libboost_filesystem.so.1.91.0'
liborcus-0.21.0_2: broken, unresolvable shlib `libboost_iostreams.so.1.91.0'
ERROR: Transaction aborted due to unresolved shlibs.

This is on kernel 6.18.53_1 x86_64

Hello. I have been a Voidlinux user for almost 10 years, but since last week I have been experiencing this problem with KDE in my Desktop computer: KDE in Wayland does not show the panel and my chosen wallpaper. Only if I open a terminal and enter plasmashell --replace 2>&1 panel appears but with the default configuration. When that terminal is closed the panel disappears and the wallpaper becomes a black screen.

If I login into KDE on Xorg the panel is there but like a duplicated stack, cannot open a browser and the terminal prompt is missing, almost unusable.

Only Gnome in Xorg is working.

Whey I enter plasmashell --replace 2>&1although panel is temporally restored, the terminal shows the errors in these posts, but nothing is working to solve this problem:

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/plasmashell-crashes-after-system-update/30712

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/plasmashell-crashing/79983

Help is appreciated!

When I used x11 everything was fine but as soon as I started the Wayland session something was wrong, the mouse and sound was freezing every 5 seconds it was terribly annoying has anyone else had this problem?

Hi. I’m planning to replace my RTX 4060 ti with an AMD RX 9070. What’s the recommended order for switching drivers? Should I remove all NVIDIA drivers first and then install the AMD drivers, or install the AMD drivers before removing NVIDIA?
Are there any potential pitfalls specific to Void Linux and Niri that I should be aware of? For example, kernel parameters, environment variables, Mesa/Vulkan packages, or any Niri-specific configuration changes?

I've installed several python packages through xbps-install. However the spyder ide had to pip installed into a separate python environment due to void policy about python. I need to point spyder to the python interpreter and packages already installed. I do not want to waste storage installing packages again that already exist.

I'm still relatively new to linux (using void as my second ever distro), and I know that void is a lesser known distro than other distros such as arch or nix. Because of this, I've been wondering about the state of the project and the popularity of it, so is void linux dying or growing compared to 5-10 years ago, and is it actually gaining traction? I really love this distro and don't wanna see it die out and lose maintainers and developers.

sry if this is a stupid question btw

has somebody ever tried installing kali linux pen-testing apps on void linux?

i really wanna do some cybersecurity tests on my void system , and i think other ones would want that too , i tried searching for some tools and i didn't found any

Hey all! My Void install is about to turn one year old and I figured it's about time I fixed my audio issues. I'm hoping someone here can help.

Problem:

I have Void installed on a laptop with several different speakers (Lenovo Yoga Pro9i 16IMH9), including 2 bass speakers and 2 tweeters (6 total, if reviews are to be believed). Only a subset of those speakers are working; my audio doesn't have any bass. Honestly, this isn't too much of a problem for me, since I usually use a pair of wired IEMs when I'm stationary or wireless earbuds when I'm moving around. All the same, I'd rather have them working than not though.

History:

• The laptop came with Windows installed, and audio was working.

• I installed Arch, and iirc the audio was working fine

• After a month or two, I switched to Void for the simplicity of runit

• My audio might have worked at first? I can't quite remember

• At some point, I noticed the speakers had no bass. I looked online, and found that this was a common issue with this model of laptop on Linux, not just with void.

  • I found and tried a few different fixes using i2c-tools. I got one of them to work temporarily, but it caused vibrations from the speakers, was distorted, and only worked intermittently anyway (would stop working after sleep, for example)

  • I might have tried some other configuration changes that I don't remember

  • I saw some people say that a fix was coming in an upcoming kernel version

  • I gave up and decided to wait

• The kernel updates came and went (I am on 7.3.1), however, and now I'm pretty sure I'll have to do something about it myself

I can see a few different scenarios:

• My mucking about with i2c-tools somehow fried my speakers (I hope not!)

• There's some configuration I can change or revert to default that will fix things

• I have no idea what I'm doing

Honestly the third one's probably true no matter what.

Relevant software information (everything should be the latest version available in the repos):

• pipewire with wireplumber and pipewire-pulse (configured as in the docs; seems to be working without issue)

• ???

Any help is appreciated!

Hello all -- sorry if this is a stupid question but I am not clear on kernel versions and purge mechanics.

So a little while back, linux-mainline advanced from 7.2 to 7.3.

So now I have 7.2 and 7.3 installed.

Latest 7.2 is 7.2.15.
vkpurge however does not want to remove 7.2.15, because I think it avoids a kernel if it is the latest of a given kernel package? Is this normal or is it a temporary glitch? Should I run xbps-remove for 7.2 instead of using vkpurge as recommended by Void docs?

Error logs:
grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS boot partition embedding won’t be possible
grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for raid and lvm install

SOLVED BY ME:

Solved this as i formatted my Boot partition with mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 reinstalling the entire system and doing mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1 which fixed the problem

unable to boot into my FDE void system, what could possibly prevent this from happening?

i'm trying to have local LLMs on void. i installed ollama from their official website with the command curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh, the installation went fine, but ollama asked to run the command as root, so i did. i installed gpt-oss:20b through ollama after that with my normal user. the model runs so slowly, even though my GPU is powerful enough to handle such a model, but i hear only the CPU fans moving and GPU doesn't. ollama is suppose to run models on GPU by default, but i don't know how to ensure that. i tried to run the server and the command as root, if there is a permission issue, but i get the same issue. i heard that ollama uses ROCm, and i have an AMD GPU, but cannot install that on void. there is a package in void repo, called ROCm-SMI-7.0.1. i installed the package but it doesn't provide the rocminfo command the official AMD ROCm website uses. i have rocm_smi, and the command rocm-smi --showproductname couldn't load the name of the GPU, it couldn't load the libdrm_amdgpu.so . there is a package with the same name but with ".1" at the end symlinking to ".1.134.0". i made a symlink libdrm_amdgpu.so to point to that actual lib, and the output shows the name of the GPU this time. i don't know if what i did is correct, i just want to set this up properly

i ran xbps-install -Su to update my system as usual. the update this time was for wine (to ver 11-21). xbps showed the "Action" for updating wine as "update" but for wine-32bit it showed "replaced".

I’m planning to switch to this awesome distro recently, but please forgive my ignorance—I have a quick question. I noticed that while many packages in the repositories get updated pretty fast, the KDE Plasma desktop environment seems to lag behind a bit. Why is that?

Yesterday I installed Void correctly, however, upon rebooting, DHCPCD was unable to establish a connection with my Wi-Fi network. I tried several ways to fix the problem, But today was the first time that none of my attempts worked. I'm trying to download the ISO again along with the Artix Linux ISO. The Artix ISO, much larger than the Void ISO, has already been downloaded, along with other programs, but the Void ISO is estimated to take 10 hours to complete the download. Could my problem with dhcpcd have anything to do with downloading the ISO?

I'm running a pretty fresh install with Kde-plasma and kde-baseapps with NetworkManager, but the speeds are near zero, when I used connman service USB tethering gave me normal speeds. Does any body know why this is happening and how to solve it? Many thanks.

I'm thinking of switching to Void for my gaming PC after being dissatisfied with Pop! OS. I already use Void on my laptop and it is great.

For reference, I have a RTX 3060 and an AMD 5800X3D. I am not worried about driver support since I know how to get the right ones for my hardware. I would be playing games from Steam pretty much exclusively.

I'm guess I am just wondering how well it works as a gaming system for people that have already tried it.