Some (most) Java applications with a GUI crashes on me. I have tried to the best of my knowledge to solve this, but apparently to no avail. So I ask all of you if you know anything about this The symptoms are: Application initializes and I can see the first frame appears and POW! it's gone. The command prompt does not return, so I guess the program is running though the GUI is dead. The process is alive at least This does not happen on all applications. For instance, I can run InstallShield stuff. All *applets* in JAVA_ROOT/demos works ICQ for Java does not work FYI: Using JDK1.1.6-v6-glibc on RedHat5.0 XFree86-3.3.1-14 with KDE 1.0 glibc-2.0.7-19 (+ debug, devel and profile rpm's) The last rows of output from "strace ./ICQ" gives: stat("/usr/local/bin/java", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], []) = 0 lseek(3, -2, SEEK_CUR) = 357 fork() = 1659 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], []) = 0 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], []) = 0 sigaction(SIGINT, {0x805b580, [], 0}, {0x804b600, [HUP INT ILL TRAP ABRT BUS FPE USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF], 0}) = 0 wait4(-1, I would be happy to send any more information if you need it.