Hello, Everyone
For quite a while now, Emacs has ceased being useable on our system. For example, if I run "emacs .bashrc" in a terminal, Emacs starts up as expected, but the file cannot be edited. I can use the mouse to select text in the portion of the file that is actually displayed in the terminal, but I cannot move the cursor(?) or delete/add/change any text. I have the following alias in ~/.bashrc that has worked perfectly for me for quite a while:
alias emacs="unset DISPLAY && emacs"

If I just run "/usr/bin/emacs" from a terminal the graphical version of Emacs opens the file file, and I can edit it as I wish. I do NOT have xemacs installed on this system.

So, the way this is working for me now, if I want to use Emacs in a non-graphical console session, I am out of luck. It does not make any difference what user I am logged in as, the problem is the same. Also, here is the permissions on the file that I used earlier as my example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 6.9K May 23 04:50 .bashrc

So, permissions do not seem to be an issue.

I am running Fedora 16, fully updated. "yum list | grep -i emacs" shows the following RPM's as being installed:

emacs.x86_64                 1:23.3-9.fc16      @updates
emacs-common.x86_64          1:23.3-9.fc16      @updates
emacs-filesystem.x86_64      1:23.3-9.fc16      @updates
emacs-git.noarch             1.7.7.6-1.fc16     @updates
emacs-nox.x86_64             1:23.3-9.fc16      @updates
xemacs-filesystem.noarch     21.5.31-2.fc16     @fedora

Also, I have not been able to find this issue on Google or at bugzilla.redhat.com.

Thank you,
Steven P. Ulrick
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