So the problem is apparently caused by eclipse's libswt-pi-gtk-3659.so having trouble while calling a function: Java_org_eclipse_swt_internal_gtk_OS_GTK_1ACCEL_1LABEL_1GET_1ACCEL_1STRING is defined in libswt-pi-gtk.so. The actual Java method that triggers the error is this: org.eclipse.swt.widgets.MenuItem.setText(Ljava/lang/String;)V+205 it would be good to see which arguments the method is using while producing the crash. I agree that this is probably not an openjdk-6 error. libswt-pi-gtk links to a bunch of libraries in Ubuntu: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgthread-2.0.so.0 libXtst.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcomposite.so.1 libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1 libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0 libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 libselinux.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 so the problem might be in one of them, but without a clear way of reproducing the problem so we can see which one of the libraries is involved in the crash, it's a bit difficult to know for sure. --- Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad