Veracrypt stopped working after upgrading Fedora Atomic 43 to 44

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Fedora Atomic 44 GNOME

I was happily using Veracrypt in Fedora Atomic 43 and after the upgrade to 44 the application can no longer be launched, when I click on the logo nothing happens, I uninstalled and re-installed Veracrypt but it still can not be launched.

For background, I downloaded the Veracrypt .rpm from the official website VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid I downloaded the link that says RPM packages: Fedora 40: GUI: veracrypt-1.26.24-Fedora-40-x86_64.rpm, it is a Fedora 40 package but it worked flawlessly in Fedora Atomic 43. I installed it locally.

This may be a long shot because VeraCrypt license is not Linux compatible and that is the reason it can not be found in many repositories, and the developer package was for Fedora 40 and not 44, but I feel Veracrypt is fairly popular and maybe somebody has found a way to solve this or has some idea, I am thinking about trying the AppImage if I can’t make the local version work.

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Please report this upstream.

Also you can use cryptsetup to access veracrypt encrypted drives.

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I don’t know if I can report this as a bug because it is a package made by Veracrypt developer and it was made for Fedora 40 not Fedora 44, it looks more like it should be reported to Veracrypt. As for cryptsetup, I don’t want to use the command line to access encrypted drives I am concerned that the terminal will store the password in history or something like that.

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that’s what I meant with upstream.

passord, no pasword in the cli, leave the pw out and you’ll see a pw prompt.

EDITL you could also download the source code and try compiling it yourself.

UPDATE: btw do you get any error message? Have you tried starting the veracrypt gui from cli?

UPDATE2: I’d say you may need to install the fuse-libs package. It is not installed by default. It’s not using fuse3 but the old fuse2 libs.

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No error, it simply won’t launch the application when I click on it,

Tried launching GUI with cli, it seems you might be right about the package.

veracrypt: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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@anotheruser Veracrypt developer replied to ticket, just like you said the problem is related to fuse-libs, it can be solved by installing the package and the next Veracrypt RPM will have fuse3.

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