Has anyone with macbook air m2 tried Fedora asahi 44 beta?

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I know that 43 is not officially relased because of some bugs, but 43 runs fine with my usage of it. Now I’m curious about 44 beta …

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Well, I actually tried, but no. There are several complaints about mesa packages and also some other packages.

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Wonder if there’s any update on that a month later. Anyone tried again?

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Progress Report: Linux 6.19 says the intention is to switch to upstream MESA packages in 44. I guess that is what we are waiting for.

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Mesa was granted a permanent updates exception so technically speaking, they could switch to upstream MESA further down the line?

EDIT: looks like things mostly work fine now: Reddit - Please wait for verification

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When I try to upgrade, I get the following:

# dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44
Updating and loading repositories:
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free tainte 100% |   6.1 KiB/s |   8.3 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 44 - aarch64 - Updates          100% |  21.1 KiB/s |  15.8 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 44 - aarch64 - Updates Archive  100% |   8.7 KiB/s |   3.3 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Packages for argument 'minicom' available, but not installed.
...
Package "qt6-qtdeclarative-6.10.3-1.fc43.aarch64" is already installed.
Problem 1: mesa-dri-drivers-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 2: mesa-filesystem-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 3: mesa-libEGL-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 4: mesa-libGL-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 5: mesa-libOpenCL-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 6: mesa-libgbm-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 7: mesa-va-drivers-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 8: mesa-vulkan-drivers-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 9: virglrenderer-1.2.0-1.5.fc43.aarch64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package

and I don’t know how to fix those problems (mesa-*-25.3.6-0.1.fc43.aarch64 are the currently installed packages).

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When I added the “–allowerasing” option to the

dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=44

command, the upgrade succeeded. Browsing through “journalctl -b0” output, I can see no serious errors/warnings.

Edit: But all was not well, the kernel was from fc43

/boot/vmlinuz-6.19.13-400.asahi.fc43.aarch64+16k

the fc44 version was also installed but the initramfs file was missing.
After reinstalling the kernel packages and reboot, everything was OK.