Carl , At this point it is probably would be much simpler for you to just move away from Slackware . Building jvm from source ,debugging with strace - this is a very hard path . And once you find the bug - there is nothing that you can do with it. You are not going to fix jvm/libc bugs ,right? You could report it and wait for new release . Probably your best bet would be use another distro and download Sun's jvm from thier site. Evgeny
> So, the only way to get the details would seem to be to build the jvm from > source (I have downloaded the source but haven't built the jvm yet.) I > don't know how to force a java stack dump at point of failure, not even > certain it is possible because it would seem the the failure in the C code > in the jvm would mean the jvm would stop before it could give a stack trace. > > Understand that this is my best guess and that this area is removed from my > usual mundane Java application development. If anyone has suggestions, I am > open to them because I know I know very little. > > > Thanks, > > Carl > >
