There bug originally occured running the JCK harness.

at the command line unset PATH

run the following java program.

// test for exec
import java.io.IOException;

class exectest
{
        static public void main(String args[])
        {
                Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();

                try {
                        Process child = r.exec("ls");
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        System.out.println(e.toString());
                }
        }
}

=>[1] _lwp_kill(), at 0xdfe2ebbb
  [2] sysAbort(0x6, 0x0), at 0xdffcb241
  [3] signalHandlerPanic(0xb, 0x48000000), at 0xdffcc956
  ---- called from signal handler with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ------
  [4] strlen(), at 0xdfe1e329
  [5] strdup(0x0, 0x68000000), at 0xdfe41393
  [6] parsePath(0x8064200, 0x80642), at 0xdffcaf06
  [7] java_lang_Runtime_execInternal(0xdef03aa8, 0x60def03a), at 0xdffcae76
  [8] j86JittedCallsUnsynchdNativeShim(0xdef03aa8, 0x60def03a), at 0xdeaeada4
  [9] 0x80c4f08(0xdef03e58, 0xa8def03e), at 0x80c4f07
  [10] 0x80c4e70(0xdef03e58, 0x18def03e), at 0x80c4e6f
  [11] 0x80ca543(0xdef03ed0, 0x18def03e), at 0x80ca542
  [12] 0x80a2237(0xdef03ed0, 0xdef03e), at 0x80a2236
  [13] 0x80b565d(0xdef03bc0, 0xb8def03b), at 0x80b565c
  [14] 0x80b39f8(0xdef03b80, 0xb8def03b), at 0x80b39f7
  [15] JITInvokeCompiledMethod(0xdef03b80, 0x80def03b), at 0xdeaeac10
  [16] JITInvokeCompiler(0xdef03b80, 0x80def03b), at 0xdeade30d