Thanks Ben. I have raised a JIRA ticket[1] so we can track work on this issue.
Seems like it works fine on my Mac but can replicate your issues on various versions of Ubuntu (10.04, 10.10 and 12.04) in my VM Lab. Will do some straces to see what is going on. Cheers, Dave [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1121
