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This happens with Karmic's Eclipse package, too.

To reproduce:
sudo apt-get install eclipse
eclipse
Click Help -> Install new Software -> Cancel -> You get the SIGSEGV

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Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445009
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
After having started Eclipse 3.5 on Karmic 32bit (openjdk-6-jre 6b16-1.6.1-1ubuntu2) and running it for some minutes, it terminates saying

% opt/eclipse3.5/eclipse          
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb7ba9856, pid=1541, tid=3085993664
#
# JRE version: 6.0-b16
# Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b16 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Distribution: Ubuntu karmic (development branch), package 6b16-1.6.1-1ubuntu2
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libpango-1.0.so.0+0x23856]  pango_layout_new+0x36
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/niklas/hs_err_pid1541.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions how to reproduce the bug and visit:
#   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
zsh: abort (core dumped)  opt/eclipse3.5/eclipse

Note it is the same with Sun's Java:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb7b62856, pid=24497, tid=3084424896
#
# JRE version: 6.0_15-b03
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.1-b02 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libpango-1.0.so.0+0x23856]  pango_layout_new+0x36
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/niklas/hs_err_pid24497.log
[...]

Seems to be the bug in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522187 , but for the bug opener, the problem seems to be gone.
Please tell me if you need more information.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct  7 01:06:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: openjdk-6-jre 6b16-1.6.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-rc6-wl i686