Should comment that I've tested several versions of Minecraft, from 1.2.5 to 1.5.2.

This error occurs with several different versions of lwjgl, and Minecraft.

Stack trace from 978M!! core file, even bz2 compressed it's 27M.

I've installed the mesa-debuginfo, so this stack trace has more detail in it. Every call from frame 7 to frame 28 was in vmwgfx_dri.so.

#0  0x0000003442835c55 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25-2.3.10.4.fc18.x86_64
(gdb) where
#0  0x0000003442835c55 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x0000003442837408 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007f0082f98c89 in os::abort(bool) ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
#3  0x00007f00830f3aef in VMError::report_and_die() ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
#4  0x00007f0082f9fd0f in JVM_handle_linux_signal ()
   from /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so
#5  <signal handler called>
#6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#7  0x00007f006f4d8d66 in generic_run_one (vert=0x7f006d549000, instance_id=0, 
    elt=0, tg=0x7efff92b2320) at translate/translate_generic.c:646
#8  generic_run (translate=0x7efff92b2320, start=<optimized out>, 
    count=<optimized out>, instance_id=0, output_buffer=<optimized out>)
    at translate/translate_generic.c:733
#9  0x00007f006f4a733b in emit_vertex (vertex=0x7efff8091df0, 
    vbuf=0x7efff8123e30) at draw/draw_pipe_vbuf.c:141
#10 vbuf_tri (stage=0x7efff8123e30, prim=<optimized out>)
    at draw/draw_pipe_vbuf.c:163
#11 0x00007f006f4a367a in emit_poly (stage=0x7efff8071730, 
    origPrim=0x7f0074ac08f0, n=3, edgeflags=<optimized out>, 
    inlist=0x7f0074ac0730) at draw/draw_pipe_clip.c:271
#12 do_clip_tri (stage=0x7eff00000003, header=0x7f0074ac08f0, 
    clipmask=<optimized out>) at draw/draw_pipe_clip.c:483
#13 0x00007f006f49ede0 in do_triangle (draw=0x7efff806a9f0, 
    v2=0x7efff92b896c "", 
    v1=0x7efff92b8864 "\001@\377\377V%.B\314w\370\301\224\377)B\367T*BV%.B\314w\370\301\224\377)B\367T*B\351\313WD\021F\317Cֿ\177?\233`\300<\315\314\314>\315\314\314>\315\314\314>", v0=0x7efff92b87e0 "", flags=13) at draw/draw_pipe.c:166
#14 pipe_run_linear (draw=draw@entry=0x7efff806a9f0, prim=<optimized out>, 
    prim_flags=<optimized out>, vertices=0x7efff92b87e0, stride=132, count=132)
    at draw/draw_decompose_tmp.h:179
#15 0x00007f006f49f3d4 in draw_pipeline_run_linear (draw=0x7efff806a9f0, 
    vert_info=0x7f0074ac09d0, prim_info=0x7f0074ac0b00) at draw/draw_pipe.c:333
#16 0x00007f006f58f87d in pipeline (llvm=0x7efff806cf30, 
    prim_info=0x7f0074ac0b00, vert_info=0x7f0074ac09d0)
    at draw/draw_pt_fetch_shade_pipeline_llvm.c:290
#17 llvm_pipeline_generic (middle=0x7efff806cf30, fetch_info=0x0, 
    fetch_info@entry=0x7f0074ac0ae0, 
    in_prim_info=in_prim_info@entry=0x7f0074ac0b00)
    at draw/draw_pt_fetch_shade_pipeline_llvm.c:429
#18 0x00007f006f58fa24 in llvm_middle_end_linear_run (middle=<optimized out>, 
    start=<optimized out>, count=4, prim_flags=<optimized out>)
    at draw/draw_pt_fetch_shade_pipeline_llvm.c:494
#19 0x00007f006f4af831 in vsplit_segment_simple_linear (vsplit=0x7efff8098210, 
    icount=4, istart=0, flags=0) at draw/draw_pt_vsplit_tmp.h:235
#20 vsplit_run_linear (frontend=0x7efff8098210, start=0, count=4)
    at draw/draw_split_tmp.h:61
#21 0x00007f006f4a983a in draw_pt_arrays (draw=draw@entry=0x7efff806a9f0, 
    prim=7, start=0, count=count@entry=4) at draw/draw_pt.c:149
#22 0x00007f006f4a9cba in draw_vbo (draw=draw@entry=0x7efff806a9f0, 
    info=0x7f0074ac0c10, info@entry=0x7f0074ac1040) at draw/draw_pt.c:579
#23 0x00007f006f5b2c17 in svga_swtnl_draw_vbo (svga=svga@entry=0x7efff8071b40, 
    info=info@entry=0x7f0074ac1040) at svga_swtnl_draw.c:102
#24 0x00007f006f5abb30 in svga_draw_vbo (info=0x7f0074ac1040, 
    pipe=0x7efff8071b40) at svga_pipe_draw.c:378
#25 svga_draw_vbo (pipe=0x7efff8071b40, info=0x7f0074ac1040)
    at svga_pipe_draw.c:325
#26 0x00007f006f506915 in u_vbuf_draw_vbo (mgr=0x7efff81c8bf0, 
    info=0x7f0074ac1040) at util/u_vbuf.c:1252
#27 0x00007f006f3f3099 in st_draw_vbo (ctx=0x7efff8159f70, 
    prims=<optimized out>, nr_prims=<optimized out>, ib=0x0, 
    index_bounds_valid=<optimized out>, min_index=1834258464, max_index=3, 
    tfb_vertcount=0x0) at ../../src/mesa/state_tracker/st_draw.c:286
#28 0x00007f006f3cc274 in vbo_draw_arrays (ctx=0x7efff8159f70, mode=7, 
    start=0, count=4, numInstances=1, baseInstance=<optimized out>)
    at ../../src/mesa/vbo/vbo_exec_array.c:624
#29 0x00007f0079112fe4 in ?? ()
#30 0x00007f0074ac11f8 in ?? ()
#31 0x00007f0074ac11a0 in ?? ()
#32 0x00007f007c4ea000 in ?? ()
#33 0x00007f0079104856 in ?? ()
#34 0x00000000e0a402a0 in ?? ()
#35 0x0000000000000020 in ?? ()
#36 0x00000000e00001c0 in ?? ()
#37 0x00007f0074ac1188 in ?? ()
#38 0x00000000e129fe50 in ?? ()
#39 0x00007f0079122d2c in ?? ()
#40 0x00000000e00001c0 in ?? ()
#41 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

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