eclipse causes JRE fatal error

[mio75]

- Fresh Ubuntu 10.04 installation.
- Installed eclipse-platform with the package manager
- started "eclipse" from the command line
- Selected Window -> Preferences, Install/Update, Available Software
- selected "Galileo Update Site"
- clicked "Test Connection"

After a few seconds with a beginning progress bar on a dialog window, Eclipse disappered from the screen, leaving the following messages on the terminal:

$ eclipse
I: Injected update sites
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (nmethod.cpp:1847), pid=5108, tid=2970585968
# Error: guarantee(cont_offset != 0,"unhandled implicit exception in compiled code")
#
# JRE version: 6.0_18-b18
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Derivative: IcedTea6 1.8.1
# Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, package 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/nemec/hs_err_pid5108.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions how to reproduce the bug and visit:
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/
#
Aborted
$

The mentioned hs_err_pid5108.log is attached to this bug report.

Versions:
eclipse-package: 3.5.2-2ubuntu4.2
openjdk-6-jre: 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1