Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here (the announcement comments topic!)

F42 beta Xfce spin is pretty good!


I tried fips=1 and Xfce terminal would crash on maximize (problem reporter hinted it being related to FIPS/algos).


Edit: wine couldn’t run stuff (up-to-date F42 beta Xfce about 2 hours ago). I don’t think it’s the new Wow64 mode, but .exe’s wouldn’t execute (logging with regular WINEDEBUG output didn’t show anything obvious).

This with winetricks failed for me (it downloaded the .msi’s but eventually reported failure):

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/osu!' winetricks -q 'dotnet48' 'gdiplus'

wine still seems to not work on Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso; above winetricks command gives this eventually (other exes also do the ntdll.dll error):

warning: Running /usr/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/home/espionage724/.wine/osu! terminate
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Executing cd /home/espionage724/.cache/winetricks/dotnet40
Executing wine dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe /q /c:install.exe /q
002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init wine-staging 10.4 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
0024:fixme:winediag:loader_init wine-staging 10.4 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
0024:fixme:winediag:loader_init Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
012c:err:environ:init_peb starting L"Y:\\dotnet40\\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe" in experimental wow64 mode
wine: failed to load L"\\??\\C:\\windows\\syswow64\\ntdll.dll" error c0000135
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: 0024:err:start:fatal_error FormatMessage failed
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warning: Note: command wine dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe /q /c:install.exe /q returned status 1. Aborting.
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Installing wine.i686 and using /usr/bin/wine32 with a fresh 32-bit prefix also didn’t work.