Help deciphering this Fatal Error (Java)

Question

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x762a76d0, pid=4072, tid=2984

 JRE version: 6.0_         


        

Answer 1

Line 3 says your program failed in the AWT-EventQueue-0 thread, also called the event dispatch thread (EDT). The execution stack trace starts in line 111, and builds up. At line 47, in the package sun.awt.windows and class WComponentPeer, the method addNativeDropTarget() attempted to call into the shared library, ole32.dll, failing at entry CoUnmarshalInterface. The rest describes the processor state at the time.

This can happen if the shared library is not the one expected by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You may need to check your installation.

Answer 2

This is a known bug in Java 6 that is still open:

http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=e5f1f1011daf96ffffffffdd154dd2e731150?bug_id=6967456

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6967456?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:changehistory-tabpanel