Fedora 8 to 9 preupgrade report

[Waqas Bhatti]

> That is really simple.  Put in your profile (an aditional
> file in /etc/profile.d/ if you want system-wide or in your own
> ~/.bash_profile):
> 
>       [ "$PWD" = "$HOME/Desktop" ] && cd
> 
> and this will repair that damage.  Similar if you are using
> something else for your default shell.

Neat. That fixed that problem. Thanks!

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=394131
> 
> You can add a missing link yourself, or you can hack with
> 'alternatives' and fix that too, but this is a real PITA.

They appear to have pushed a new update for F8 to fix this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.package.announce/9673

- Waqas