Comment 43 for bug 1223181

(In reply to lazare lazare from comment #28)

Thanks for the hint!

What you describe is pretty much the setup I use all the time (except I install everything as a regular user, into a place where I have the permission).
BUT when I reported comment 27 I was indeed using /usr/bin/java, which identifies itself as

java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

Going back to an original jdk (1.8.0 in my case) seems to fix this issue for me.
Thanks again.