This posting is a thank you note and compiles the responses.

I had this problem:

> >| $ javac HelloWorldApp.java
> >| Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >|
> >| I run RedHat 5.0, and I am using the glibc version of jdk.  Also, I assume
> >| it's important to compile the kernel for Java binaries?  I did this.

And got the following, successful advice from several sources:

> I solved the same problems by upgrading to glibc-2.0.7-13.i386.rpm from RedHat.
> I think it was somewhere in the upgrade to 5.0 directory. I'm sure you'll find it 
>somewhere there.
> After installing this package, everything works fine now.

Thanks to all.  Also, I learned that you do not need to compile the kernel
for Java binaries. If you do, however, then to execute, you have only type
the name of the binary:

% HelloWorldApp.class

instead of 

% java HelloWorldApp.class

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