Upgrading to Fedora 8

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Yesterday I tried upgrading yoyride to Fedora 8, to see
> how much pain it would be.
> 
> After enabling the fedora repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and
> tweaking it to make it fetch from version 8, I just did:
> 
>   init 3
>   yum -y dist-upgrade --exclude poppler
>   init 5
> 
> Going to init 3 is necessary to conserve memory, otherwise
> yum fights with sugar and cranks the system to death.
> 
> Excluding poppler precents a dependency problem in our
> custom package.
> 
> Surprisingly, everything worked perfectly after the update,
> until I rebotted.
> 
> Then I got into a minor glitch that prevents input hotplug from
> working when the X server is run by the unprivileged user olpc
> (X is a suid binary).  If I run X manually from the console,
> everything works fine.  There's probably a stricter check on
> the EUID somewhere in dbus or in hal.
> 

Does the symlink in /boot to the kernel get updated? I've tried 
smaller-scale updates (just the kernel) and it still reboots into the 
old kernel.