Description of problem:

/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh has the following code:

eval `dircolors --sh "$COLORS"`
[ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return

and this means that if $TERM does not show up in "$COLORS" as
"colorizable" then, quite surprisingly, aliases 'll' and 'l.'
are not defined at all.  This happened when after recent updates
FC3t1 suddenly started to sport TERM=gnome.

The code really should be:

....
alias ll='ls -l' 2>/dev/null
alias l.='ls -d .*' 2>/dev/null
eval `dircolors --sh "$COLORS"`
[ -z "$LS_COLORS" ] && return
....

with 'll' and 'l.' redefined if it was decided that adding
'--color=tty' is a good idea.

The situation is really the same in /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.2.1-18 and earlier too