try adding shopt -s checkwinsize to your .bashrc/.bash_profile
Not too sure if its the same problem I was having, but sounds similar.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:14:28PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I may have mentioned this before in the past, but I've encountered a
> situation with bash where playing back the history by repeatedly pressing
> up-arrow has strange effects when I reach a certain command line which is
> long enough to cause wrap around. If I'm using the kde konsole application,
> the app. dies and if I'm using an xterm, the bell beeps. In either case,
> bash scrambles the prompt but gets its act together again after a couple
> more presses of the up arrow.
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