segfault loading mozilla start page

[jimav]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffd5d787b5 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so

This occurred when I clicked a bookmark in firefox pointing to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/
(don't know if the problem is specific to that page; it was the first attempt to load a new page).

Here is complete gdb session:

firefox -- -g
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh -g /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/plugins:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/components:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
          LIBPATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin -x /tmp/mozargs.0nh9yo
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffe77ed710 (LWP 2371)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe6bf5710 (LWP 2372)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe63f4710 (LWP 2373)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe54ff710 (LWP 2374)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe42c4710 (LWP 2375)]
[Thread 0x7fffe42c4710 (LWP 2375) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffe42c4710 (LWP 2376)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdecbe710 (LWP 2377)]
[New Thread 0x7fffde4bd710 (LWP 2378)]
[New Thread 0x7fffddcbc710 (LWP 2379)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdd4bb710 (LWP 2380)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2381)]
[Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2381) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2382)]
[Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2382) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2383)]
[Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2383) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2384)]
[Thread 0x7fffdccba710 (LWP 2384) exited]
Attempting to load the system libmoon

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffd5d787b5 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fffd5d787b5 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
#1 0x00007fffd5d958d6 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
#2 0x00007fffd5d6f400 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
#3 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#4 0x00007fffffffe188 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007fffd5d776db in _init ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
#6 0x00007fff00000000 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007ffff7dddd35 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#8 0x00007ffff7de2811 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#9 0x00007ffff7ddd996 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#10 0x00007ffff7de1fca in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#11 0x00007ffff587df66 in ?? () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#12 0x00007ffff7ddd996 in ?? () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
#13 0x00007ffff587e2ac in ?? () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#14 0x00007ffff587dee1 in dlopen () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#15 0x00007ffff5a96faf in PR_LoadLibraryWithFlags ()
   from /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/libnspr4.so
#16 0x00007ffff716b6f3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/libxul.so
#17 0x00007ffff71622cd in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/libxul.so
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q
Quit
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 Inferior 1 [process 2368] will be killed.

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: icedtea6-plugin 6b18~pre3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 29 10:48:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-6

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please could you recheck with the openjdk-6 packages in
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openjdk/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing. the packages from the ppa are not necessary anymore. see the updates in lucid