The langtools/test/jdk/jshell/ToolReloadTest.java is failing when the persistent history is empty:

test ToolReloadTest.testReloadRepeat(): failure
java.lang.AssertionError: Repl tool died with exception
        at org.testng.Assert.fail(Assert.java:83)
        at ReplToolTesting.testRaw(ReplToolTesting.java:242)
        at ReplToolTesting.test(ReplToolTesting.java:203)
        at ReplToolTesting.test(ReplToolTesting.java:191)
        at ToolReloadTest.testReloadRepeat(ToolReloadTest.java:132)
...
Caused by: java.util.NoSuchElementException
        at java.util.LinkedList.removeLast(LinkedList.java:287)
        at jdk.internal.jline.console.history.MemoryHistory.replace(MemoryHistory.java:138)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.EditingHistory.fullHistoryReplace(EditingHistory.java:346)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.ConsoleIOContext.replaceLastHistoryEntry(ConsoleIOContext.java:308)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.rerunSnippet(JShellTool.java:1827)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.cmdUseHistoryEntry(JShellTool.java:1806)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.lambda$new$41(JShellTool.java:1068)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.processCommand(JShellTool.java:689)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.run(JShellTool.java:631)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.start(JShellTool.java:428)
        at jdk.internal.jshell.tool.JShellTool.start(JShellTool.java:401)
        at ReplToolTesting.testRaw(ReplToolTesting.java:240)

Besides this, the tests shouldn't depend on the content of the global preferences.