This is a 2D part of P1 bug 4677194, which combined 2D and Awt issues.
From that bug:
Here's the fourth crash (fatal error) that happens with build 11
before any of other fatal errors can manifest (reproducible with
-Xcheck:jni every time in my environment):

FATAL ERROR in native method: JNI received a null class
        at sun.awt.image.BufImgSurfaceData.initRaster(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.image.BufImgSurfaceData.createDataBC(BufImgSurfaceData.java:262)
        at sun.awt.image.BufImgSurfaceData.createData(BufImgSurfaceData.java:112)
        at sun.awt.image.OffScreenImage.initBackground(OffScreenImage.java:102)
        at sun.awt.image.OffScreenImage.<init>(OffScreenImage.java:69)
        at sun.awt.image.AcceleratedOffScreenImage.<init>(AcceleratedOffScreenImage.java:75)
        at sun.awt.motif.X11OffScreenImage.<init>(X11OffScreenImage.java:62)
        at sun.awt.motif.X11OffScreenImage.<init>(X11OffScreenImage.java:56)
        at sun.awt.motif.X11ImageRepresentation.createImage(X11ImageRepresentation.java:34)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.createBufferedImage(ImageRepresentation.java:224)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.setPixels(ImageRepresentation.java:331)
        - locked <efce84d0> (a sun.awt.motif.X11ImageRepresentation)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageDecoder.setPixels(ImageDecoder.java:108)
        at sun.awt.image.GifImageDecoder.sendPixels(GifImageDecoder.java:461)
        at sun.awt.image.GifImageDecoder.parseImage(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.image.GifImageDecoder.readImage(GifImageDecoder.java:603)
        at sun.awt.image.GifImageDecoder.produceImage(GifImageDecoder.java:220)
        at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(InputStreamImageSource.java:257)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(ImageFetcher.java:168)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(ImageFetcher.java:136)

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