FX Samples BouncingBalls, BrickBreaker and FXML-LoginDemo (and, possibly, other applications) may crash during startup when using an outdated version of Raspbian (2012-09-18). Using the newer versions (2012-10-28 at the moment of the release) we do not experience the crash.

The observed crash log when seing this crash is as follows:

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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x400a0d98, pid=9092, tid=1203078256
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (25.0-b04 mixed mode linux-arm )
# Problematic frame:
# C [ld-linux-armhf.so.3+0x9d98] _dl_rtld_di_serinfo+0xcb0
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# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /media/sda1/javafx-samples-8.0.0-ea/hs_err_pid9092.log
Phoning home...
Using server: 10.161.186.18, port 4711
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# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

Workaround (solution) is to update the Raspbian OS version to 2012-10-28 or newer.