From a conversation with jholder, it looks firmly like I was getting this error due to the java engine failing, almost certainly due to insufficient memory. I'll be sticking to testing b3 for a little while longer while I search for hardware, but if you have plenty of ram on your rig and the errors are the same, there may be an issue somewhere.
That said, I think there are quite a lot of debian 3.1 installs on debian 4.0, so we should be seeing more reports of a problem. |