Gentoo amd64 and serial comms in Arduino IDE

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Hi. I can upload and run the IDE fine in Gentoo but when it comes to using the serial tool it always crashes.

This is the error I always get, even if I run the app as root.

reg@funtoo-pc ~/Documents/arduino-0017 $ ./arduino
Experimental:  JNI_OnLoad called.
Stable Library
=========================================
Native lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7
Java lib Version   = RXTX-2.1-7
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f693639d88d, pid=12075, tid=140089848777040
#
# JRE version: 6.0_17-b04
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (14.3-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 )
# Problematic frame:
# C  [librxtxSerial-2.1-7.so+0x888d]  read_byte_array+0x4d
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/jon/Documents/arduino-0017/hs_err_pid12075.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
./arduino: line 20: 12075 Aborted                 java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base

Any pointers? I've had this issue forever and thought i'd try this place.

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NVM. Should have read the notification at the Arduino website. Needed to use rxtx ver-2.2

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I hit that same bug last night when I was doing initial testing of my Arduino robot controller; found your post, read it, fixed it quickly! Thanks for pointing this out, I might've been searching for a little while longer without that help.