I get this. It sucks.
The issue, for me at least, stems from the fact that i am running a
Struts project, and i need to override the jaxp.jar classes with xerces
parser classes.
I previously did this by putting a jar named 0xerces.jar in the lib/
folder of my tomcat install, which worked fine, since those classes
loaded before the ones specified in jaxp.jar.
This worked great with IBM's JDK1.3.0 - never used Sun's 1.2.2 on Linux.
However, since 'upgrading' to Sun's JDK1.3.1 with Hotspot, the JVM
segfaults when tomcat starts up, giving the same error you describe.
I'm not sure why this happens, but maybe 1.3.1 doesn't like having its
classes overridden.
There are 2 ways around this - invoke the JVM with the '-classic'
switch, thus disabling the JIT, or to remove 0xerces.jar from lib/,
which breaks my Struts projects.
The third solution is not to use the JDK1.3.1 at all, and stick with the
IBM JDK, which is my current course of action.
Hope this helps, and i hope you find a better solution than i did.
-Pete
