arduino IDEs serial monitor crashes with ubuntu's librxtx

[JR]

to reproduce, simply use arduino's Hello World example, write it to a arduino board and open the serial monitor then.

the complete java runtime will crash as already described in: http://feelslikeburning.com/2009/08/21/how-to-get-arduino-0017-working-on-64-bit-linux-including-ubuntu-9-04/

the workaround provided at the link above (use rxtx 2.2pre2) works here.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 5 20:29:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: librxtx-java 2.1.7r2-4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: rxtx
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic x86_64

[Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani)]

This bug is fixed in Lucid Lynx. For Karmic you can use the Arduino Ubuntu Team 's PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~arduino-ubuntu-team/+archive/ppa

Thanks!