Java – Installing Sun Java on Fedora 14

You can find it among the VM options:

http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/vmoptions.jsp#DebuggingOptions

-XX:ErrorFile=./hs_err_pid.log If an error occurs, save the error data to this file. (Introduced in 6.)

So try to start your app with:

java -XX:ErrorFile=/tmp/hs_err_pid.log -other_options yourapp.jar

And if this creates the dump, you're fine.

I'd never use it. I'm aware of the licensing restrictions around Sun's Java, but if you want things to work, use sun-java6. I've tried setting up tomcat and hudson (for example) using OpenJDK and had a world of pain.

It's really not that much harder to specify Sun Java, and it's a considerably better package.