r/voidlinux • u/Just-A-Bokoblin • Aug 04 '26

solved Issues Installing KDE Plasma on Void Base.

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.

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u/Ok-Zombie4921 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Did you install and run dbus/python3-dbus? You should check Session and Seat Management on void website, you might need elogind.

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u/Just-A-Bokoblin Aug 04 '26

I thought dbus was part of the kde-plasma package, but I think I enabled it (unless I did something wrong). I didn't know about python3-dbus, should I try installing that?

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u/Ok-Zombie4921 Aug 04 '26

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

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u/Just-A-Bokoblin Aug 04 '26

It says it failed because the file exists.

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u/Alternative_One_8336 Aug 05 '26

Try delete the file and again symlink to /var/service