gs,ghostxcript not working on fc5

[Jack Byers]

Jack Byers     byersj at hotmail.com
2.6.17-1.2174_FC5

running
gs file.ps
gs file.pdf
or
ghostscript file.ps
ghostscript file.pdf

all fail to show the page , as if the connectin to X is broken

byers at bootp dsys]$ gs parted.pdf
ESP Ghostscript 815.02 (2006-04-19)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 27.
Page 1
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

Page 2
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
[byers at bootp dsys]$

otoh, both
kghostview and  xpdf display  fine

xpdf also has the facility on pdf files to select arbitrary size rectangular 
regions
and copy them into a textfile
which makes it  very handy for doing selective copying on multicolumn pdf 
files

any advice on on gs, ghostscript?
Jack