no shell command hist on arrow keys

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> writes:

> I've seen no mention in recent posts about this:
> After booting (test2) and arriving at an X desktop (gnome)
> my xterms or gnome-terms have no shell history buffer.  Nothing comes
> up on the arrow keys.
> 
> Further, I find I cannot scroll up inside vi[m] or emacs, just down.
> 
> Readline packages are installed and show no problems with:
> rpm -V readline
> rpm -V readline-devel
> 
> Haven't ventured into test3 yet but wondered if anyone has noticed
> this same problem?

Now having installed test3 I see either the history problem has
been fixed or it was `self inflicted'.  No such problem in test3