Using many GUI java programs with the Sun JDK crashes my X server.  (Using
Sun's Java plugin in Mozilla also sometimes crashes my X server, so I
uninstalled the plugin.)


My X server is XF86_SVGA on a "Matrox|MGA G400 AGP" with 32MB of video
RAM and running at 1600x1200 at 24bpp.  Relevant installed packages (which
were installed by the RH7 installer) are:

XFree86-4.0.1-1
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.1-1
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-33
XFree86-devel-4.0.1-1
XFree86-libs-4.0.1-1
XFree86-tools-4.0.1-1
XFree86-twm-4.0.1-1
XFree86-xdm-4.0.1-1
XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-1

I also have a number of truetype fonts installed.


Steps to reproduce (on my machine):

Download, extract the RPM, and install the Sun JDK
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html and add
/usr/java/jdk1.3.0_02/bin/ to PATH.

Download and unzip http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/svgtoolkit-20001211.zip
and run the command

java -cp svg.jar:lib/xerces.jar:lib/ss_css2.jar:lib/js.jar
org.csiro.svg.viewer.Viewer

in the directory that is created.  (It's the command listed in view.sh,
roughly.)

Mouse over the toolbar in window that pops up.  This causes the X server
to crash.


I see similar problems with Sun's JDK on other GUI java programs, and
I've also seen X server crashes triggered by java applets on web pages
while using Sun's Java plugin with Mozilla.  I don't see the crashes
using the IBM JDK.