blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

8/29/2024

Akshara loops when bpkg isn't available (likely not related to being bpkg specifically)

Under the assumption that bpkg was available as an Arch package, I tried to put it in the packages section. When running Akshara, it seemed to loop for a bit before exiting. (I understand that bpkg isn't available as a package after looking at its docs more, but I don't think this loop is the intended behavior. Additionally, to not waste time and bandwidth for other stuff to run before getting to packages/aur-packages and finding that a package doesn't exist, at the start there should be a check to see if all the packages exist before starting installation....

log-bpkg-thing

hanna (password generator)

8/29/2024

`visual-studio-code-bin` broken

Upon running VS Code, installed via the AUR package visual-studio-code-bin package, it prints this:

/usr/bin/code: line 11: /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/code: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/code: line 11: /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/code: No such file or directory

...

Solution:

Use the flatpak or the tar.gz

vscode-errors

NopeNopeGuy

8/28/2024

Icons broken when app is installed from container on gnome

Solution:

Is GNOME not an officially supported use-case? The website has a lot of screenshots on GNOME, I am assuming it isn't updated yet to reflect this. The fix for the issue was simple, edit StartupWMClass and remove the capital letters, but I am oh-so-sorry for wasting your very valuable time on this....

whoisollie

8/28/2024

issue explained in picture

hi everyone, sorry for being so brief, its just that i really need to make a directory in shown directory to place a file from my desktop into as im trying to get gpu passthrough working in kvm, so if any of you could help me out on this, i would really appreciate it. thanks in advance and have a nice day

Solution:

Use the commands part of system.yaml to preform all operations that touch these parts of the system.

Senzenfrenz

8/26/2024

Strange Boot Behavior v4

Every Once in a while boot gets stuck on "dev/sda2: clean xxx/xxxxx files xxx/xxxxxx blocks". It takes a few minutes then it displays some text very short and reboots. This reboot only takes a few seconds to boot into blend os. Anyone knows whats causing the first boot stuck problem? Updated a few times, over the last few weeks, still all the same.

Solution:

It seems I fixed it. The simplest thing because it is documented on the official page: https://blendos.co/faq/#why-are-my-aliases-not-showing-up-on-fish In there: "The plasma-track is not working". Did it so far no more failed boots. Will update here if there's still something wrong and if I get 10 or more boots now that work in a row I will consider this solved. Edit after a week: Solved, no issues at all.

madesho

8/18/2024

Can't launch a terminal using commands

Hello, I want to create a keyboard shortcut to launch the included terminal console quickly, I tried using gnome-terminal and everything else that I found online but I can't make it work. Also tried launching it using the alt+F2 run dialog but it's still not working, what can I do?

Solution:

The binary for Console is called kgx

PanglimaKegelapan

8/16/2024

No Android Apps (waydroid)

just fresh-installing blendOS 🫡 today & realized that there is no Andoroid App 😭 option in the "system". what should i do? is there a way to adding waydroid the way it should be? 🤔

Solution:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Installation ignore package install, this is done for you, just run the commands

whoisollie

8/11/2024

virt-manager refuses to communicate with o. s.

When I try to connect the qemu/kvm thing it always throws an error shown in this picture: ...

Solution:

so you need to enable libvirtd and edit the libvirtd config

Hesham

8/11/2024

UX feedback: can you add the sha256sum of blend os 4 to the site

what is the blend os 4 iso sha256sum

Solution:

check the download page

limby-giga-Shakman🇪🇬

7/31/2024

stability issues on plasma track

If I boot system with Plymouth system hangs at boot only responding to numlock (not capslock) and (when i boot without splash) system is laggy and after some use plasmashell crashes and other apps (systemsettings firefox) (Notice in picture how panel is transparent)...

Victoria

7/19/2024

"GPGME error: no such device", followed by lots of "missing required signature"

I am trying to set up a VM in Proxmox, but the installer can't install some packages. ISO version is 35fda9f4. From what i can tell, a few batches of packages are able to install completely, but at some later point this issue arises, and the installer just loops downloading packages, failing the signature verification and trying again....

Dry Paper Hammer Bro

7/16/2024

How'd I use apps from the AUR & Pacman?!

As in the title. Very, VERY noob que, but I'm a noob, so...

Solution:

https://blendos.co/reference/configs/system/

Dry Paper Hammer Bro

7/16/2024

Cannot create a profile.

I had to sign in as Root to make my profile. Is this intentional? OS version: blendOS V4

Solution:

No, installer must have failed there, but seeing as your account works, who cares

Michael

7/15/2024

General strategy for setting up for development/streaming? (mostly game dev)

I've been looking at an immutable base for my main system. I do game dev right now mostly in Godot 4. I've also been learning some Golang. But I also want to stream! My question is, what's the general strategy for setting up a dev environment in BlendOS? Should this be on the base system? In a container? Would this even work the way I need it in Blend OS? The immutable distros have been evolving so much and getting better for a wider set of use cases. I've attached a more extensive, but high level I need Go, neovim, vs code, Godot manager. Plus Steam, nvidia drivers, nvidia cuda, blender (I use the flatpak). ...

Solution:

in short flatpaks should just work, stuff like neovim should be able to run in a container, and if you cant get everything running you can install to the host with packages and aur-packages entries in system.yaml (https://blendos.co/reference/configs/system/)

dev_notes2.md

machkarol

7/10/2024

Is there any way to have traditional Chinese characters Pinyin keyboard (input method) on Vanilla?

I tried to install it via settings but it doesn't work.🧐

Solution:

https://blendos.co/faq/#the-language-i-want-isnt-there

Jessilo

7/7/2024

Waydriod not working Need help

Waydriod is not starting and freeze every time help me please I have. Ryzen 7 7700 with Rtx 3070Ti...

neitsab

7/3/2024

Keymap isn't preserved after install preventing input of LUKS passphrase on non-English keyboards

Hi, Yesterday I tried my first install using the latest 4636db55 version. I'm using a French azerty keyboard, which I had to change in GNOME settings just to be able to connect to wifi. Then I went on with the install and selected automated partitioning with LUKS for encryption. I input my passphrase using accented characters, made sure it was alright and rebooted at the end. ...

Solution:

make your edits via sed in system.yaml's commnads: function

Samcon30yt

7/3/2024

Updated system and it booted to Rootfs.

Hi, yeah no idea why but when I updated my system it booted into the Rootfs screen with the error "'/dev/disk/by-label/' device did not show up properly after 30 seconds... falling back to interactive prompt You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished sh: can't access tty: job control off" So yeah no clue. This has normally happened when I try to edit the system.yaml file. But this is an entirely clean install kind of. I have not edited the system.yaml at all I have just used it as normal. Installed a few apps from the flatpack store, and tried to update my system after I learned there was an Nvidia driver update that fixed a screen flicker issue I was having in Minecraft. Using Blendos V4. Updated from the system app. Installed Minecraft through prism launcher flat pack doubt that matters. I have an arch and Ubuntu container, The arch container is the only one used, and it literally only has Freeciv. Ubuntu has nothing....

Senzenfrenz

6/30/2024

"gnome-initial-setup" user

Hey, I am on Blend OS v4 now. Nice really. After setting track to kde Plasma I get my user and another "gnome-initial-setup" user. What does that mean? Would like to see only my user and not the gnome one.

Solution:

this is a remanent of the initial blendOS installation which use GNOME and for which there is a wizard to help you set a few parameters like timezones etc. on your first login. It can be safely deleted with sudo userdel -r gnome-initial-setup, with -r to remove its /home folder at the same time.

곰푸타

6/29/2024

certificate has expired

hello. i get a weird error when i try to install flatpak with sudo akshara update. this is the error message. ...

Solution:

Change repo in system.yaml to a backup repo for now (they’re listed here: https://blendos.co/install)

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