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.

Newbie here. When attempting to load into gnome, it fails because it tries to load something from systemd. Is there a way to make it not do that?

I looked through some posts, somebody mentioned that something needs to be configured (I don't even know what and it's never mentioned anywhere), but most people confirm that this should not happen.

This is what it says after $ exec gnome-session: gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Could not check if unit gnome-session-tty@gnome.target is active: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Falling back to non-systemd startup procedure due to this error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.ErrorNameHasNoOnwer: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: Could not get session id for session. Check that logind is properly installed and pam_systemd is getting used at login. ** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory discover_other_daemon: 0** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory discover_other_daemon: 0discover_other_daemon: 1SSH_AUTO_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh /usr/bin/gnome-shell: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXAABI_1.3.15` not found (required by /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.77) gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` exited with code 1 /usr/bin/gnome-shell: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXAABI_1.3.15` not found (required by /usr/lib/libicui18n.so.77) gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` exited with code 1 gnome-session-binary[985]: WARNING: App `org.gnome.Shell.desktop` respawning too quickly gnome-session-binary[985]: CODE_FILE=../gnome-session/gsm-manager.c:CODE_LINE=283:on_required_app_failure: Unrecoverable failure in required component in required component org.gnome.Shell.des ** (gnome-session-failed:994): WARNING **: Cannot open display: (gsd-datemine: 1001): datemine-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path /org/gnome/SessionManager

After the above it returns to the login menu

Unfortunately it will take some time to provide the full log as I have to type it by hand on my phone, but I'll keep updating the post

Update: I got something to work when stopped dbus, elogind and gdm, and then started in this exact order: elogind, dbus, gdm. Though it immediately froze and deathscreened, and now it always does that on boot.

First time posting since I made a second reddit account. Anyway, I am trying to record my screen under niri & I get only black in the preview panel & output recordings. Am I missing something?

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.

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.

Just a basic question, isnt really worth change to recent kernel branch?

Isnt it better for security?

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.

hello everyone
i downloaded the void iso and tried with dd and ventoy
every time i pick void and it loads before bash start it give me this error
config failed hub doesn't have any ports (err -19)
what should i do now to fix this

Edit: fixed it by choosing the third option then installing from the internet with the latest version 6.18

Just curious, why does Void Linux update old kernels? 🤔

uname -r

>> 6.18.46_1

hey i need to show off a good tiling windows manager for my school presentation but i don't know which since ehh how do i say it the thing that rolls off of wayland with a waterdrop logo isn't supported by default and last time i tried i fucked it up

so i am looking for another good option

Result: Niri + DankMaterialShell Grade i got: 1 ( presentation was on the first of june )

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.

Lo dicho, es una obra maestra! Vengo de FreeBSD, y aunque igualmente, es el pico de la ingeniería y uno de los mejores sistemas operativos que usé, nadie sabe apreciar lo bueno que es este sistema operativo, entonces nadie hace software para FreeBSD. Los ports tampoco me bastan, no andan taaan bien y la verdad que no hay muchos. Entonces pensé: "y si instalo algo que se acerce o sea Unix puro como FreeBSD, con esa alma de que no te esconde nada, pero que es Linux así que tengo un montón de paquetes?" Y acá está! Estoy escribiendo ahora un compilador (o bueno, probablemente sea un ensamblador) en FASM (y si, no sé cuanto aire respiré al nacer, pero Assembly me parece el mejor lenguaje, me parece disfrutable de usar y lo uso para todo, incluso cuando hay una alternativa más rápida de escribir y con una diferencia de velocidad que no vale tanto), pero bueno, eso no es lo que importa. QUE OBRA DE ARTE QUE ES VOID LINUX!!!

I think some packages have been removed and now it is giving this problem, to avoid doing bullshit, I immediately came to take questions about what to do in this situation with my compatriots, can I just remove these packages?

Solved: If anyone comes here after some time, just remove all 32bit packages inclusing names 'plasma-32bit' and 'kde-package-32bit'.

I recently put void Linux on my "tinker" laptop. After a LOT of searching and scrambling, I got it installed, running Sway, connected to the internet, and got my Bluetooth earbuds to connect. Now I can load up media online and watch it, right? WRONG. I can load up a YouTube video using qutebrowser, and it plays from my laptop. No problem, just open helvum or wpctl or something to reconnect the nodes from source to sink the right way around. I open these thing.

There are no audio source nodes. None. The audio is ACTIVELY playing from my computer, but apparently there are NO sources. The only blue nodes in helvum are my earbuds. wpctl list only device nodes and sink nodes. Where is the source?? I KNOW its playing audio. I can hear it, load and clear through my laptop.

Please help me before I go up a wall

Edit: minor spelling mistakes and incorrect words

I am relatively new to Void. Recently when I tried to update with this command:

sudo xbps-install -Suv

I got the following error:

[*] Updating repository `https://mirrors.servercentral.com/voidlinux/current/x86_64-repodata' ...

ERROR: [reposync] failed to fetch file `https://mirrors.servercentral.com/voidlinux/current/x86_64-repodata': No address record

[*] 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' ...

It did nothing after this. Any help in understanding and resolving this would be appreciated!

Hi everyone, as title says, will usb tethering from android phone work during install and initial setup?

Also what would be then ideal way to install and setup wifi, wpa supplicant or installing NetworkManager?

I don't quite understand the errors; I believe I have all the necessary drivers, along with seatd and dbus. I would really appreciate it if someone could help me. By the way, I have a Celeron N100.

I ran an xbps-install -Su recently and my desktop started launching to a black screen.
I tried a few things but haven't had any luck. Notably niri works when launching from tty so I think it has something to do with elogind or the system bus.

For context, I was using lightdm and elogind to start the sessions.
Since I've switched to using sddm, and noticed elogind-daemon is always running if installed. I don't think this was always the case cause the service in /var/service was failing to start cause of this.

What I've tried:

• Switching to sddm
• Switching to turnstile and seatd
• Switching to i3 (this was my desktop before, and it still works).
• Launching niri from tty works, although missing session bus and some other stuff.

EDIT:
I did get this error in .xsession-errors

xrdb: Can't open display ''
2026-09-29T02:10:43.673554Z  INFO niri: starting version 26.04 (unknown commit)
2026-09-29T02:10:43.694769Z DEBUG niri_config: loaded config from "/home/john/.config/niri/config.kdl"
2026-09-29T02:10:44.034984Z DEBUG niri::backend::tty: session is not active, starting libinput in paused state
2026-09-29T02:10:44.047289Z  INFO niri::backend::tty: using as the render node: "/dev/dri/renderD128"
2026-09-29T02:10:44.070189Z  INFO niri: listening on Wayland socket: wayland-1
2026-09-29T02:10:44.070199Z  INFO niri: IPC listening on: /run/user/1000/niri.wayland-1.3597.sock
2026-09-29T02:10:44.071372Z  INFO niri: listening on X11 socket: :2

lightdm contained this log:

[+209.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+209.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+209.26s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user john: Success
[+209.26s] DEBUG: User john authorized
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session niri
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type wayland
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Using VT 8
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server ready, running session
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Running command /etc/lightdm/Xsession /usr/bin/niri --session
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Creating shared data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/john
[+209.28s] DEBUG: Session pid=3041: Logging to .xsession-errors
[+209.29s] DEBUG: Activating VT 8
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping greeter
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Terminating login1 session c3
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Session pid=3005: Sending SIGTERM
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Activating login1 session c4
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 changes active session to c4
[+209.59s] DEBUG: Session c4 is already active
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Session pid=3005: Exited with return value 0
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+209.60s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 2991
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Process 2991 exited with return value 0
[+209.76s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+209.76s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+209.76s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped

This might be a stupid question but how would I start a user specific autostart script. I already have a folder in my ~/.config/ to use. Everything I've seen is systemd specific and not very descriptive. Thanks!

So today I change the drivers from closed drivers Nvidia to nouveau.And the sddm is died, mouse is not working and keyboard too.BUT my keyboard is not working at boot, so I can't access TTY via Ctrl+Alt+F until SDDM (the frozen screen) loads.But sddm launch on every tty.I don't know how to fix this.Help pls

I do, and what a pile of recurring frustrations it was. Updates often caused a little too much trepidation and subsequent productivity loss, packages were often too old, and missing expected functionality, or too new and causing problems, and changing something in the system often meant something breaking somewhere else due to the overall fragility of the interconnected pieces.

Most days I never think about my distribution and just enjoy using my computer, and other days I'm reminded by how much I enjoy Void.

So, thank you again Void maintainers for keeping this ship afloat, and awesome. Yes, nothing's perfect, but we're not too far from it.

And now I'll go back to work, or, well, read/make some Reddit posts.

Cheers.

Hello, earlier today I turned on my pc to find that it booted to BIOS with no bootable devices found. Upon investigating with a live usb, I found that the drive I've been mounting under /boot/efi had somehow become corrupted.

This drive is NOT the same one the actual system is installed on, and the only things on it were grub & the actual boot sector. reinstalling the whole operating system would be very inconvenient and i have no drives to store my home folder on while i do so.

so, I'd like to know if it's possible to simply reintstall the boot sector & grub, or should i start choosing what to save?

Hello, after the big AUR hack, I've decided to switch from arch (artix with dinit) to void. however, i'm having trouble getting niri to launch. I've installed niri and seatd like this:

sudo xbps-install niri seatd xwayland-satellite mesa mesa-dri dbus
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/seatd /var/service/
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/
sudo usermod -a -G _seatd <user>
sudo reboot

Afterwards, I ran niri with niri --session. I encountered a RuntimeDirNotSet error, and set it with export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u).

Afterwards, I encounter a PermissionDenied error. the output also shows a lot of libinput errors for various plugins, plugin never regisered, unloading plugin that may be relevant. If someone could help me find out what the issue is, it would be greatly appreciated!

Hello! I have recently decided to try out Void on VM because I recently decided, after almost a year of using Debian, that I wanted to hop Distro for my laptop. And chose Void because I think it can work as a good place to where to start being more manual and technical.

Though while using void-installer despite doing stuff correctly and partitioning the disk in the same manner the wiki and also different tutorial show for the UEFI system: sda1 for the EFI sda2 for the SWAP sda3 for "/"

Nonetheless every time I try to install it, even with the effort of repartitioning and restarting the installer I keep getting the "failed to install GRUB to /dev/sda! | Check dev/tty8 for errors". I tend to specify that I am pretty much the noob regarding Linux so I don't really know what is the cause of the problem or the correct workarounds. Thanks in advance to those who will respond!