On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Steven P. Ulrick <meow8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hello, Everyone
Going off the suggestion that someone made about Emacs having issues
with resolving hostnames, I grabbed the SRPM of emacs from Rawhide,
changed a line that said "resolv=no" to "resolv=yes" and rebuilt it.
When I updated to those newly build RPM's of Emacs and attempted to
see if the problem was still occuring, I discovered that the problem
is fixed!
I accidentally grabbed the Rawhide SRPM of Emacs.  So, for kicks, I'm
going to try rebuilding the Fedora 16 SRPM of emacs with NO changes
whatsoever, and then I will try rebuilding the Rawhide version again,
this time NOT changing "resolv=no" to "resolv=yes"  This way I will
find out if the change I made really had anything to do with fixing
the problem...

Steven P. Ulrick
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