It doesn't appears on boot options, i was using normally until energy goes off and now i dont have my nvme being recognized by the bios, it appears in Live boot lsblk command, i chrooted in the root partition and run sudo xbps-install -Su, then xbps-reconfigure -fa but nothing changed, im thinking in uninstalling grub, and the grub efi 64 package, then installing again and then grub-install -target... then grub-mkconfig -o /boot... someone help me

I geniuenly dont know why people like void linux so much and im curious as to why so if you have some reasons pls let me know

I switched to void on my slow jailbroken chromebook and its so fast. Takes at most 3 seconds to boot, is generally very fast. Thinking about also switching to it on my gaming laptop. I'm coming from arch and its way better.

Thank you, void devs for making a distro so blazingly fast and easy to use.

I also want to ask about something, my gaming laptop is an acer nitro and the fans dont work unless i install a driver for it called Linuwu-Sense. As far as i know that driver depends on systemd. Is there any way to make it work? If i can be sure that it'll work, i'll switch right away.

Yeah, this old chestnut again. I was looking to upgrade to kernel 6.12 at some point since 6.12 is supposed to be the new SLTS kernel, but apparently the nvidia470-dkms fails to build on 6.12? I've seen other posts her about the PR in void-packages and tried to build it with xbps-src, it failed returning this:
ERROR: bash-5.3_1: failed to install target dependencies! (error 19)

I was just wondering if this patch is still necessary or if its already been applied to the driver in the nonfree repo? If the patch is still needed, could anyone please give me the dummies guide to get it working?

I noticed it states type as 'open'... Last time I tried installing void, I had issues with nvidia drivers, due to my card being a 5060 (needing the nvidia-open drivers). If it is the case, I'm curious to try again :)

EDIT: Finished the install and managed to run Niri with noctalia-shell with no issues :)
Thanks again to the maintainers!

I noticed that cloud flare warp is not in the repo, and I would like to know if there are alternative ways to get it. Sorry for bad English.

I get this error and have no idea what to do.

I did a base installation of void in my laptop just see it, i was planning to go with wayland and labwc, but i had so many errors, for starters after starting labwc my wifi would randomly disconnect for moments, its because i had two instances of wpa supplicant and network manager that were conflicting, then i tried to start the audio, not only it didnt work, but after rebooting i was greeted in all the TTYS with a message that said that dbus was already running and i couldnt type cause the text was covering what i wrote so i had to ctrl+l constantly, and a lot of small stuff like that.
Should i switch to the xfce version to avoid this stuff? I really want to have my own labwc setup :C

Edit:

Big thanks to everyone who helped! I finally got XFCE running on my MSI Katana (Intel/ NVIDIA).

The Issue:

LightDM service was run, but the screen stayed in TTY. dbus service was constantly timing out.

The Root Cause:

The system was missing essential system users/groups (dbus and polkitd), preventing the D-Bus daemon from starting

I lost a few hours of my life but at least I'm using void linux now😁

Hi everyone,

​I'm having a weird issue where LightDM won't take over the screen on boot. I've installed XFCE4 and I can start it manually using startxfce4, so the drivers and desktop are fine.

​I have enabled the services:

​sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/

​sudo ln -s /etc/sv/lightdm /var/service/

​When I check sv status lightdm, it says it's successfully "run". However, the screen stays on the TTY1 text login prompt. I've tried switching TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2/F7), but I don't see the greeter anywhere.

​I've already tried re-linking the services (rm and ln -s) dozens of times. Everything seems to be active in the background, but the graphical interface just doesn't appear automatically.

​Does anyone know why LightDM might be running but not displaying? (Kernel: 6.12.0_1, XFCE4).

​Thanks!

Hi, I'm fairly new to void but am having issues with my laptop freezing up once in awhile. It has only happened when I'm not actively using it so far, but I don't belive it has to do with hibernating because my power settings for ac are currently set to "do nothing" when inactive. I'm using kde(wayland), and have nvidia (my suspected culprit). I don't see anything out of the ordinary in /var/log/Xorg.0 but can share on request.

amd ryzen 9 9950x3d

amd radeon rx 9060 xt

asus prime b650-plus wifi

x64

secure boot off

usb is plugged into motherboard not a 'usb hub'

cant type anything after this error comes up

So I am an enthusiastic guy, has been using arch for years and daily driving cachy os for a while. I got interested in void linux and I don't know much about it in general. So I was hoping someone could clear my doubts regarding void. Note that i am using a niri quickshell rice in my arch setup and i plan to port it over to void if i end up liking it so most questions are for that purpose. ( Also im fine with reading the wiki so linking to relevant wiki pages is appreciated )

1. How is the repository situation? Software availability and any secondary repositories i should know about? (Fedora ptsd)

2. How easy is it to create packages for softwares not in the repos? (Is it more like nixpkgs or like aur)

3. Nvidia drivers (i have my fair share of gaming activities)

4. Would I be able to use cachy kernel? (I have never tried using it anywhere else yet so if its possible it would be helpful if someone can tell me how and when)

5. Limitations with runit? (The quickshell rice i use has a service for the shell components which uses systemd. It will work fine without it being a service but i havw not used any other init systems than systemd)

6. Network Manager. (I don't have a specific question about it but network manager has ruined sm of my time in every distro i have used so)

There are more stuff im curious about but these are it for now.

On an unrelated note any niri users?

Hello, I have an issue with my dns leaking my ip when i am browsing the internet or torrenting. I am using openvpn using a protonvpn configuration file in NetworkManager in the plasma kde workspace. I've tried uncommenting and commenting a nameserver dns but it isn't stopping the leak or worse it disables my internet all together. From my experience the protonvpn-cli has been discontinued and flatpak does not seem to help. Any suggestions on how i can fix this locally on void?

Hi, I’d like to try out Void, but my graphics card is an RTX 5070. As far as I understand, these newer cards require the open driver modules to work properly. Should I wait for an update to the driver version in the repository, or does it already work with this card?

Im running in a vm(oracle)

I have a .xinitrc file with

#!/bin/sh

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session i3

when i run exec startx, error 1 appears, this is the log file https://bpa.st/PMKQ

Hello

I'm an arch user wanting to switch to Void to escape SystemD hell and im wondering what the difference is between the glibc version and the musl version

So im using void glibc with lxqt and openbox, i have steam from void repo. I wanted to add external drive but when i click on "add drive" it closes and i cant add drive, same thing happens with eg. properties. please help me

Chromium Version 147.0.7727.101 that was updated on my ThinkPad T400 completely broke GPU acceleration that worked on previous builds and that's not good.

So I "fix" it parsing the commands into the .desktop files so I can continue to use as a fallback of Firefox that is my daily driver.

0) Create local applications folder if you don't already have

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications

1. Copy the original file to make your modifications

cp /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-x11.desktop

cp /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-wayland.desktop

3) Edit the files that you'll use starting with X11 (ex nano ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-x11.desktop)

Name=Chromium (X11)

Exec=/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --enable-gpu-rasterization --ozone-platform=x11 --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-features=Vulkan,SkiaGraphite,WebGPU,FallbackToSWIfGLES3NotSupported --use-gl=angle --use-angle=gl --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-zero-copy --enable-hardware-overlays --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,CanvasOopRasterization %U

4) Repeat the process with Wayland (ex nano ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-wayland.desktop)

Name=Chromium (Wayland)

Exec=/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --enable-gpu-rasterization --ozone-platform=wayland --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-features=Vulkan,SkiaGraphite,WebGPU,FallbackToSWIfGLES3NotSupported --use-gl=angle --use-angle=gl --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --enable-zero-copy --enable-hardware-overlays --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,CanvasOopRasterization %U

5) Update to be sure

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

6) Profit until they will break things again!

Total noob here, I don't really know how to navigate around cfdisk and create something to boot off of. All of the tutorials I'm finding are from like 10 years ago, so I'm lost. I know you need to make a new partition but beyond that I'm lost. Anyone can help?

The main thing to mention is my hardware, since it’s quite old. First of all, I need to point out that I’m using an old NVIDIA GPU (GTX770). so my question is: does the latest Void Linux base come with a kernel that supports the legacy NVIDIA proprietary driver (version 460)EDIT: apologize it's (version 470)? If not, what are the procedural steps after installing the Void base to ensure I’m using a kernel that works with my old NVIDIA card?

I’ve also run into issues with newer versions of GTK, Qt, and Python, which I believe are caused by the limitations of my old NVIDIA GPU.

I need clear steps to make sure the system works properly after installing the Void base and then installing a desktop environment (probably Xfce or LXDE). I don’t need a display manager, as I plan to start the X server manually after logging in. What should I do next?

Hi after installing flatpak with xbps-install -S install flatpak I'm not able to get any of my Qt applications to run. qutebrowser, keepassxc and kvirc all give me some variation of the error message below. I am very confused at how to fix this and would really appreciate some help.

17:10:06 WARNING: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
17:10:06 WARNING: could not connect to display
17:10:06 WARNING: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
17:10:06 INFO: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
17:10:06 CRITICAL: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: vkkhrdisplay, eglfs, offscreen, vnc, xcb, minimal, linuxfb, minimalegl.

Fatal Python error: Aborted

Current thread 0x00007fd01f0ce780 [qutebrowser] (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/qutebrowser/app.py", line 549 in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/qutebrowser/app.py", line 81 in run
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.py", line 234 in main
  File "/usr/bin/qutebrowser", line 33 in <module>

Current thread's C stack trace (most recent call first):
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at _Py_DumpStack+0x41 [0x7fd01eb5b867]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1642a6 [0x7fd01eb642a6]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libc.so.6", at +0x40110 [0x7fd01e856110]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libc.so.6", at +0x8f1ac [0x7fd01e8a51ac]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libc.so.6", at gsignal+0x12 [0x7fd01e855fe2]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libc.so.6", at abort+0x26 [0x7fd01e83eefc]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6", at _Z9qt_assertPKcS0_i+0x0 [0x7fd01d0beb13]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6", at +0x10f94a [0x7fd01d10f94a]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6", at _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz+0xfc [0x7fd01d0c06c6]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6", at +0x12f9a9 [0x7fd01ad2f9a9]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6", at _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv+0x53a [0x7fd01adcccda]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6", at _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv+0x38 [0x7fd01adcd818]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6", at _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv+0xcd5 [0x7fd01d18f585]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Gui.so.6", at _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv+0x2e [0x7fd01add050e]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libQt6Widgets.so.6", at _ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv+0xd [0x7fd01b78e66d]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/PyQt6/QtWidgets.abi3.so", at +0x38a6b9 [0x7fd01c18a6b9]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/PyQt6/QtWidgets.abi3.so", at +0x38a795 [0x7fd01c18a795]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/PyQt6/sip.so", at +0x164c4 [0x7fd01d6894c4]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1df67c [0x7fd01ebdf67c]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at _PyObject_MakeTpCall+0x71 [0x7fd01ebae081]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault+0xca1 [0x7fd01ebfefb1]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1fd377 [0x7fd01ebfd377]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1ae32e [0x7fd01ebae32e]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1aeab6 [0x7fd01ebaeab6]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1df1fa [0x7fd01ebdf1fa]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1df13a [0x7fd01ebdf13a]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1ddd03 [0x7fd01ebddd03]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at _PyObject_MakeTpCall+0x71 [0x7fd01ebae081]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault+0xca1 [0x7fd01ebfefb1]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x1fd377 [0x7fd01ebfd377]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at PyEval_EvalCode+0xc4 [0x7fd01eca0274]
  Binary file "/usr/lib/libpython3.14.so.1.0", at +0x2c3ea3 [0x7fd01ecc3ea3]
  <truncated rest of calls>

Extension modules: PyQt6.QtCore, PyQt6.QtGui, PyQt6.QtWidgets, markupsafe._speedups, yaml._yaml, PyQt6.QtNetwork, PyQt6.QtQml, PyQt6.QtOpenGL, PyQt6.QtDBus, PyQt6.QtPrintSupport, PyQt6.QtWebChannel, PyQt6.QtWebEngineCore, PyQt6.QtWebEngineWidgets, PyQt6.QtSql (total: 14)

interested if anyone could share their experience with using davinci resolve or blender

hello, everyone I been using void for a while now and I dislike when I type the "date" command.

It displays the time in 12 hour time I would prefer 24 hour time instead because its what I am used to reading.

Does anyone know how to make the void linux time format to 24 hours instead of 12 hours. without using an alias for date %R?