I had the same problem too with a cheap 1&1 virtual server. The main problem was that the box was incredibly low on free memory.
As a workaround the memory consumption of the JRE can be lowered for the executing console. This can be done by using the following command. export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xms16m -Xmx128m" Not really a nice workaround but it got me running again Regards Martin __ 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.