Much thanks to Neale Ferguson, Ross Patterson, Mark Post, and Joe Jenkins who responded to my question. My apologies in advance if anyone was omitted (it was unintentional).
The issue was the "__register_frame_info()" problem that was mentioned in the responses. I took a look at the SuSE site and didn't quite follow along until this morning when I took another look. For those of you interested I thought I would document the steps taken to implement the solution (if you aren't interested then please hit the delete key now). The libfixframeinfo.c program was first downloaded from the following URL: http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/sgi/redhat/test-6.0/ The documentation in the program was excellent and made life simple. The program was compiled and placed into a new separate directory. Next the library preload was set up with: export LD_PRELOAD=/mydir/libfixframeinfo.so The IBM 1.3 Java RPM was installed and worked perfectly! Ross had mentioned that his shop had both the IBM and Blackdown ports running. I had previously downloaded the bz2 files from www.blackdown.org so I reinstalled by following the directions from their website (BUNZIP2 piped to a tar). Next (per the directions in the README.linux file in the JDK directory) the PATH was updated to include the bin file : export PATH=/jdkdir/bin:$PATH . HelloWorld was recompiled and executed perfectly! Again, thanks for the help!
