Nice. You managed to crash the JVM. I've done it a few times before. (java isn't all that Sun's marketing department has been claiming it is)
Crashing Java... <g> Me???
| Current Java thread:| at | com.ibm.speechcomponents.user.VvUserOpts.VvUserOptsInitialize(Native Method)^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You said you got this program from a RH rpm, right? Perhaps the "native" (C/C++) portion of this program isn't binary compatible with the libc on your debian box.
> it could be a libc mismatch issue.Hm. Am back from the weekend out of town, will try your suggestions and report back. Thanks meanwhile.
Cheers, Andreas