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[Jacob <jlm-ublp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Based on the Novell bug report, it looks like this is due to openjdk handling out-of-memory badly.
vmstat on my box reports:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0 236088 324496 820492    0    0     3    12   26   15  8  1 91  0

free reports:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2063504    1835352     228152          0     325080     820500
-/+ buffers/cache:     689772    1373732
Swap:            0          0          0

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segfault updating package openjdk-6-jre-headless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322353
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
There are several bug reports related to crashes in this package, but all reports are quite old.  I believe this is a new issue.

[Linux:yankovich-new-desktop ~]# sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b12-0ubuntu6.1) ...
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7621254 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e733f4]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7e75456]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so[0xb797f301]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so[0xb7942492]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so[0xb7943c50]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so[0xb7948075]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so(JNI_CreateJavaVM+0x5c)[0xb77e4ebc]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java(JavaMain+0x9e)[0x804a52e]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0[0xb7f7250f]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0xb7ee57ee]
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