JVM is crashing while in GC which seems to be an issue with JDK 1.2.2_10 on Solaris. The stack trace is as shown below -

---- called from signal handler with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ------
  [14] scanExternalRef(0xe737d1c0, 0x0, 0xee535d68, 0x3b930, 0x2, 0xee400d90), at 0xfeddf65c
  [15] referencesInJITtedFrameDo(0x3, 0xc20, 0xea1cf8cc, 0x94455e0, 0x1, 0x5b2), at 0xfed19764
  [16] referencesInStackDo(0xe737ba2c, 0xfefee950, 0x0, 0xe737b9e8, 0xea1cfb50, 0xe737ba2c), at 0xfed19c44
  [17] processRootsWork(0x4e8760, 0xfefcfff8, 0xea1cfa28, 0xea1cfb50, 0xea1cf9f8, 0xb54688), at 0xfecfc924
  [18] parallelDoDeg(0x4e8710, 0xfefcfdb0, 0xfecfc7cc, 0xea1cf9f8, 0x0, 0x1), at 0xfed7be88
  [19] processRoots(0x1, 0xfef8c804, 0xfecfc400, 0xfefee800, 0xfecfcc34, 0x0), at 0xfecfcdc0
  [20] processStrongRoots(0x1, 0xfef8c804, 0xfedcf1a4, 0xfedcf1fc, 0x0, 0x0), at 0xfecfce24
  [21] processStrongRefsIntoGen(0xfefaa000, 0x1, 0xfef8c804, 0x0, 0x2, 0x0), at 0xfedcf344
  [22] ssCollect(0x3b930, 0xe3f57, 0x63a58e9a, 0x0, 0x1, 0xfeddf52c), at 0xfede12ec
  [23] timedGC(0x3b930, 0xfefd6800, 0xfefcff98, 0x0, 0xfeff2400, 0xff31ebb8), at 0xfedcd41c
  [24] specificGC(0x1004, 0xfeff2400, 0x1004, 0x0, 0xfefaa05c, 0x1), at 0xfedcd6fc
  [25] lockedGC(0xe737b4b4, 0xfefa85a0, 0xfefe4000, 0xfefd4aa0, 0x0, 0x1004), at 0xfed010ec
  [26] stopWorldAndDoCurThread(0x1, 0x8000000, 0x43, 0x1, 0xfefcfdb0, 0xe737b4b4), at 0xfecfd634
  [27] GCThread_run(0xfefcffd8, 0xfefcffc8, 0xfefa844c, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0), at 0xfecfdbd8
  [28] _start(0x0, 0xfefcfdb0, 0xfefa9c00, 0xea0, 0xfefba000, 0xfeff08d4), at 0xfedabc5c

Complete stack trace is attached to the defect.

This is similar to the bug 4374532 that is fixed in JDK 1.2.2_08. But, we are
still observing this problem on JDK 1.2.2_10 on Solaris.