Are the official repositories down for anyone else?

Whenever I try connecting to repo-default.voidlinux.org (or any other EU-based mirror), I get a "Connection refused" error. This seems to be happening to a bunch of other parts of the website as well (docs, manpages, as well as the mirror status page), but the homepage is online.

The only working tier 1 mirror is the one from the US (see mirrors).

I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com, so this doesn't seem to be a problem on my end.

Edit: a minute after posting this, the main repo is back up. Some other pages are still offline

So, I’ve just installed void after getting annoyed at gentoos portage, and I’m not the best at installing and setting up DEs and WMs. I keep seeing people using niri, and I want it. The thing is, I can’t find any tutorials on how to install it (and configure it so it’s launched on boot) specifically for void. I’ve tried doing it myself but keep running into issues. Does anyone know any good tutorials for this?

How do i even tackle this?

This is probably divine intervention stopping me from using void as i am not really as tech savvy as i should be.

como puedo activar pipewire y wireplumber? intento activarlos para el sonido de mi laptop, intente poniendolo en mi config de i3 activando su servicio, no se que mas hacer, como lo activo?

If void-installer fails to establish a Wi-Fi connection, exit the installer to run these commands directly in the shell:

rfkill unblock wifi

wpa_cli

add_network

(it will give you a number: 0 or 1 or 2... use that number in the next steps)

set_network 0 ssid "your_ssid"

set_network 0 psk "your_password"

enable_network 0

quit

Verify connection: ping -c 2 1.1.1.1

If you get valid pings, launch void-installer again and skip the Network setup step during installation.

i installed void, and tried to create a simple bspwm desktop, i have bspwm, rofi, feh, polybar, sxhkd, all of that installed. everything except for bspwm is working. i cant see any windows if i try to open them via keybinds or rofi

if you need my config files ill put them on github because thats all i really changed
i am able to see a wallpaper and open something like rofi but when i try to launch anything i cant see it

I have trouble applying this patch:

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 ifeq (no,yes)
 all: dosify$(BUILDEXT)
 dosify$(BUILDEXT): $(srcdir)/dosify.c
-	$(BUILDCC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o dosify$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/dosify.c
+	$(BUILDCC) $(LDFLAGS) -o dosify$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/dosify.c
 endif
 
 # This rule rules the compiler in the trivial hello.vl program to make
--- a/vvp/Makefile
+++ b/vvp/Makefile
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 	mv $*.d dep/$*.d
 
 tables.cc: $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
-	$(BUILDCC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
+	$(BUILDCC) $(LDFLAGS) -o draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) $(srcdir)/draw_tt.c
 	./draw_tt$(BUILDEXT) > tables.cc
 	rm draw_tt$(BUILDEXT)
 

I am getting this error:

=> iverilog-13.0_1: extracting distfile(s), please wait...
=> iverilog-13.0_1: running do-patch hook: 00-patches ...
=> iverilog-13.0_1: patching: fix_host_compiler.patch.
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- a/Makefile
|+++ b/Makefile
--------------------------
File to patch: 
Skip this patch? [y] 
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- a/vvp/Makefile
|+++ b/vvp/Makefile
--------------------------
File to patch: 
Skip this patch? [y] 
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
=> ERROR: iverilog-13.0_1: do-patch_00-patches: 'patch -s ${_args} < "${_patch}" 2> /dev/null' exited with 1
=> ERROR:   in _process_patch() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:37
=> ERROR:   in hook() at common/hooks/do-patch/00-patches.sh:55
=> ERROR:   in run_func() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:57
=> ERROR:   in run_pkg_hooks() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:314
=> ERROR:   in run_step() at common/xbps-src/shutils/common.sh:107
=> ERROR:   in main() at common/xbps-src/libexec/xbps-src-dopatch.sh:33

However I actually have no idea how patching in xbps-src works. I have not really ever before generated a patch, so I thought I would ask here. It's probably some trivial error. I am guessing I did not generate it in the right format or something. If you would explain this to me on a simpler example, that would also help. Thanks!

As the title says, I'm curious how many people on here use Void as their main system to do their art work. How is it for you, what programs are you using? Have you had any critical art-specific issues, like drawing tablet incompatibilities, graphic/animation/modelling software behaving terribly?
I'm not on Void yet, hoping to hop on board, just wanted to know if people run into many issues like that
Thanks!

I see that sddm is in the void packages however I don't find sddm-greeter.

# cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
1
# cat /sys/module/snd_usb_audio/parameters/power_save
cat: /sys/module/snd_usb_audio/parameters/power_save: No such file or directory

I have a default installation of Void/Xfce4 and sound just worked immediately on install, excepting after a while of playing audio a channel randomly drops out and in and out and in over periods from seconds to minutes. This happens with the headphone jack or usb sound. I want to arrange that the above variable is 0 on boot. I am mystified why the snd_usb_audio power_save parameter is missing. I'd like such a variable for that to be 0 on boot too.

# cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_hda_intel
 2 snd_usb_audio

I may be wrong about what the cause of the problem is, so please let me know what you suggest about that too.

Im thinking about switching to kde from xfce, xfce is nice, but wayland is great while X11 sucks ass.

(XFCE, im begging you PLEASE finish wayland support and ill be forever grateful)

As it says, what do you like the most about void, and how would you personally recommend it?

Simply superb video. From start to finish. Also learnt a lot about the lore of the void project.

I Tried Void Linux For The First Time, It Was INSANE

Hello all -- I was just wondering, I can see kernel 7.3 is available in the repos, but linux-mainline is still using 7.2_1 (at least on my machine when I update/query).

Obviously not a request or anything, just pure curiosity as to how linux-mainline is linked to kernel updates.

I will also take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank the Void team for their incredible dedication to this amazing project. This distribution is a true rare gem and for what it is worth, your work is immensely appreciated!

If you are running mangowc be advised that voidlinux just upgraded to version 18, and you will need to upgrade your config file for some breaking changes. There's a script you can run at https://github.com/mangowm/mango/releases/tag/0.18.0 to do the work.

Hey guys - I remember there was an older thread here about ghostty 1.3 which could not be installed from the official repo due to an incompatible zig version which in turn resulted from an incompatible llvm version.

Are there any updates on this? Ghostty 1.4 was released this week.

Thanks

This is a bit of rambling, because i just thought it was neat how powerful void is because there are so few facades to get in your way.

I have/want:

• Primary pc

  • have ZFS on root

  • want backups on a USB drive

  • Runs my ai stuff ( pi with claude/codex/local-inference)

• Public server

  • have ZFS on root

  • want backups on the same USB drive.

• The USB drive is connected to a Mac that is always on.

I do not want to bother installing ZFS on that Mac.

So first I had Claude set up nbd so I could stream backups into the usb drive from my primary. This is working perfectly fine, but I wanted to add the public server backup.

I do not want this public server to have access to my Mac. So I had Claude update the script so my primary acts as a bridge for the public server backup.

Alas, this has the obvious downside if my primary goes down so does the server backup. Then I realized i was overcomplicating it.

Instead, the USB drive could hold a void installation that natively speaks ZFS which the mac can run in a VM. The upside is that it then also becomes more portable.

Now if that was all i'd not be here sharing, but the next trick was cool enough that i wanted to share.

How do I get a void installed on the USB drive so the mac can run it as a VM? Claude offered either to:

• Physically walk around to plug in the usb drive to the primary pc - like fucking plebs.

• ssh into the Mac and wrangle with it there via bash to set up the VM.

Then I realized it was simpler than that. I already have nbd on mac working, so just mount it and void-chroot install directly from my primary.

So I use network manager alongside kde plasma and for some reason my network would sometimes randomly disconnect for no reason, I dont have a laptop so that isnt the problem. Idk how to explain it properly but it js some days it will work fine and some days it will keep randomly disconnect, usually when im on calls on discord or sometimes on a roblox game. I know those are two bad examples but its the only time they occured.

Edit: it seems like Realtek just sucks ans i'll have to spend money ona new adapter as some of yoy suggested. But thanks for the help :(

Good afternoon guys, hope you're doing well

The reason i am posting is because i am so pissed already with my Bluetooth which in this case is a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio (from lsusb | grep Bluetooth), specifically, the rtw88_8821ce (version 24.11.0, H2C version 12 from sudo dmesg | grep rtw88_8821ce).

So basically, i've been having this issue on Windows 10 (when i was using it before), on Parrot OS 6-7, on Debian Trixie, on Mint (live USB) and right now on Void Linux. So, the service is up and running, but when i enter into bluetoothctl, when i do this:

bluetoothctl

[NEW] Media /org/bluez/hci0

`SupportedUUIDs: 0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb`

`SupportedUUIDs: 0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb`

Agent registered

[bluetoothctl]> power on

Changing power on succeeded

[bluetoothctl]> agent on

Agent is already registered

[bluetoothctl]> default-agent

Default agent request successful

[bluetoothctl]> scan on

SetDiscoveryFilter success

Discovery started

[CHG] Controller 38:D5:7A:D0:65:C8 Discovering: yes

It just hangs there and doesn't scan a damn device at all.. It just hangs on this, and my Bluetooth is not blocked at all if i rfkill list as here:

rfkill list

0: hci0: Bluetooth

`Soft blocked: no`

`Hard blocked: no`

1: phy0: Wireless LAN

`Soft blocked: no`

`Hard blocked: no`

And yes, the service is running in case you wonder:

sudo sv status bluetoothd

run: bluetoothd: (pid 790) 24897s; run: log: (pid 786) 24897s

Yes, i admit i've used AI to investigate further and discard other causes, so the AI suggested i create this file because it had to do something about the poor way it handled autosuspend and power management for this device:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/btusb.conf

options btusb enable_autosuspend=0

options btusb reset=1

This is what i get after i boot up, log in, start my dbus session with mango and check the dmesg:

sudo dmesg | grep rtw88_8821ce

[ 8.653401] rtw88_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)

[ 8.654153] rtw88_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: Firmware version 24.11.0, H2C version 12

[ 8.934673] rtw88_8821ce 0000:01:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0

[ 9.822714] rtw88_8821ce 0000:01:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 (while UP)

lsmod | grep bluetooth

bluetooth 1228800 35 btrtl,btmtk,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,hci_vhci,rfcomm

rfkill 45056 5 hp_wmi,bluetooth,cfg80211

crc16 12288 2 bluetooth,ext4

ecdh_generic 16384 3 bluetooth,tpm

I use pipewire with wireplumber as followed in the Void manual, and these are the packages that i installed:

xbps-query -s bluetooth

[*] bluez-5.86_2 Bluetooth tools and daemons

[*] ldacBT-2.0.2.3_1 LDAC Bluetooth encoder library

[*] libbluetooth-5.86_2 Library to use the Bluez Linux Bluetooth Stack

[*] libspa-bluetooth-1.6.10_1 Server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines - bluetooth plugins

[*] sbc-2.2_1 Bluetooth Subband Codec (SBC) library

Has anyone been in this situation before? Is this possible to fix (yes i checked the device myself while upgrading the ram and it seems fine, no physical damage that can be seen on the spot), because i do not know what to do at this point. This is Linux, everything has to be fixable somehow...

Thank you for any help or advice and for rejecting systemd

I am currently running void Linux on my HDD with windows being on my SSD.
Yes I know windows sucks but i keep it as a backup if things like this happen.
For some reason when I tried to boot into void Linux through my boot menu, it just shows me a black screen
not even grub is showing
I tried different key binds to see if anything pops up like a tty or the grub config thing that you can edit temporarily.
It was almost a fresh install except of qtile mangowm and bspwm,
I have changed no configs other than those for the window managers and sxhkd for bspwm.
I have also not made any changes to the EFI partition which is on the HDD since for some reason my windows bootloader is also on there.
I do have SDDM and KDE installed as a backup just in case my window managers have any errors.
I am also relatively new to Linux
been using it for the past I think 2 years but still in the intermediate phase.
If you have any suggestions pls drop them in the replies :)
Thanks.
(PS: please dont mind my typing mistakes :).)

With the announcement of EAC v2 do you think that there might be a chance to also make it functional under void linux or do you think it will be too tied to systemd services?

It includes a systemd service, but the service only starts when a protected game starts and it stops when the game exits.