Crashes/Hangs on Mandrake 10.0

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but I couldn't 
find a bug report link.

I could submit to Sun, but I've done that several times in the past, and 
they've never managed to fix anything. They take nearly a year to 
respond, and then can't reproduce the problem, and dismiss it as nor 
reproducible. For another bug I reported, they said it was the same as 
an already reported bug, but haven't fixed that one yet either.

A program I wrote, scoreRegatta crashes/hangs on Mandrake 10.0, but ran 
fine on Mandrake 8.0. Even Ctrl-Alt-F2 is ignored! The only way to 
recover is to hit the reboot button on the computer.

I was running Sun's v 1.4.2 on both drake 8.0 and drake 10.0:
46 pluto ~> java -version
java version "1.4.2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode)

I tried kaffee and gij, hoping these VM's might not have this problem, 
but neither will run even the most rudimentary gui application.

I tried blackdown java, which fails the same as Sun's java.
47 pluto ~> bjava -version
java version "1.4.2-rc1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1, mixed mode)

The crash happens during the initialization phase of scoreRegatta. The 
progress bar has been as various positions between 50% and 80% during 
the hang.

I switched from Mandrake 8.0 to Mandrake 10.0 a few months ago, because 
Mandrake 8.0 would always hand during shutdown, failing to kill some 
process, and forcing ckdsk at every reboot.

Another related reason for switching, is that debugging scoreRegatta in 
NetBeans would often hang NetBeans. In particular, one java process 
would be in the "DiskSleep" state, and Netbeans would hang. I would kill 
the java processes and start NetBeans again. Unfortunately, theDiskSleep 
process can not be killed! Not even as root, not with -9
option, and worst of all, shutting down linux would not kill it either! 
Which would also force ckdsk on reboot.

The program:
installation package, including jar file: (README describes installation)
http://dbh3.us/cgi-bin/getZip/scoreRegatta.zip
java Source files:
http://dbh3.us/cgi-bin/getZip/RegattaSrc.zip


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