Nicolas Joly wrote:
...
> I'll guess that you are emulating a 2.4 Linux kernel.
> I would try to switch to 2.6 for NPTL emulation ...
> 
> sysctl -w emul.linux.kern.osrelease=2.6.20
> 

Brilliant.  This fixed it, thanks very much.

Is this documented somewhere in pkgsrc land ?  If this is a common
problem that users might come across is it worth updating the MESSAGE in
the java packages we have ?

adrian.