I reproduced the error, the test log contains this exception leading to a native error inside the JDK:
Testcase: testPictures took 0.003 sec Caused an ERROR com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.initReaderIDs(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)V java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.initReaderIDs(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)V at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.initReaderIDs(Native Method) at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReader.<clinit>(JPEGImageReader.java:96) at com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageReaderSpi.createReaderInstance(JPEGImageReaderSpi.java:85) at javax.imageio.spi.ImageReaderSpi.createReaderInstance(ImageReaderSpi.java:320) at javax.imageio.ImageIO$ImageReaderIterator.next(ImageIO.java:529) at javax.imageio.ImageIO$ImageReaderIterator.next(ImageIO.java:513) at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1443) at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1352) at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.TestHSSFPictureData.testPictures(TestHSSFPictureData.java:55) This error doesn't happen with the openjdk-8 package I built in May, at this time it still contained the embedded copy of libjpeg. Could this be an incompatibility with the version of libjpeg in Debian? Emmanuel Bourg __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.