Dear all,
IDE 1.6.4 hangs up when "Open..." is chosen from the menu.
The error in the terminal is
A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007ff6ec68fec7, pid=4096, tid=140697432893184
JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (7.0_79-b14) (build 1.7.0_79-b14)
Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.79-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
Derivative: IcedTea 2.5.5
Distribution: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch), package 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu1
Problematic frame:
C [libjavagtk.so+0x8ec7]
Full log attached.
I found a solution to this by editing the launcher script like explained here
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=320517.0
hs_err_pid4096.txt (114 KB)