This probably won't be much help, but just in case, ... You are getting a segmentation violation (signal 11) which means you are attempting to access protected memory. Since you cannot do this in Java, it is either: 1) a bug in the JVM, 2) buggy JNI code, or 3) a bad configuration of shared libraries on your machine. The best thing you can do is attempt to narrow down the problem as much as possible. Also make sure you can reproduce the problem on another Linux box that is not identically configured and is presumably in a stable configuration. I would guess that it is not a bug in the JVM only because I have found the Linux 1.4.1 JVM to be very stable, but if you can find no other explanation, you should send it to Sun. This won't help you much though. Good luck, Chris Steve Jovanovic wrote: > Second, are there any Linux experts here who could help us out with a > very weird problem? We run the latest JVM on Linux and use Orion 2.0 > as our Java app server. If we put /any/ load to speak of on Orion, the > JVM terminates and down we go. The Orion log reveals this: > > > > The log reveals the following: > > Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x402D7273 > Function=JVM_handle_linux_signal+0x93 > Library=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so > -- Chris P. McCabe - Principal Engineer Choice Hotels International - Information Systems chris_mccabe@choicehotels.com - 602-953-4416