Bingo - GCJ sounds an extremel likely culprit, as I was having an issue with OpenOffice.org also when creating a database, which turned out to be down to GCJ as switching JVM made it work. This is Bug #60979.
Meanwhile, can we get eclipse to use the Sun JRE instead? -- eclipse dies when starting up https://launchpad.net/bugs/37751 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
