Herman Knief
The problem is related to the fact that the JVM included with 8.1 is still built with GCC 2.95.3... while the rest of the distro is built with GCC 3.2.
Sorry, but this is plain wrong, as this has nothing to do with the compiler! The Java programmers just assumed a ridiculous small stack and Java can't cope with the floating stack in glibc.
This is a known issue with ZeroG (the install anywhere folks) and SuSE is working on Sun to get an updated Java build.
Once again, this is a bug in Java, which a rebuild won't fix. The rebuild would only make the java plugin work again, as Java's font manager is written in C++ and only C++ code is affected by the switch of compilers. These errors are caused by the use of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL in wrappers, which won't work with our glibc. As I wrote in the other mail the only solution is to get Java changed and in the meantime remove all those bogus uses of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL in wrapper scripts. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development SuSE Linux AG private: pth@t-link.de