By now, jre is working again.
Cannot reproduce it anymore...
I believe reported behavior was due attempts for running JRE after
"overwriting" kernal upgrade and before reboot.
Some time ago kernel upgrades used to employ distinct package names (version
suffix in package name), so I didn't notice
Public bug reported:
I have been running java applications without trouble in 14.04 LTS
(amd64), using openjdk-7-jre (7u75-2.5.4-1~trusty1).
Since I've upgraded kernel (inux-image-3.13.0-46-generic) to
3.13.0-46.79 (from trusty-updates), JRE keeps just crashing with
SIGSEGV. So I'm unable to run
