More details for you on my specific situation.
My system is Ubuntu (debian based Linux) 64 bit on a core i7 processor.
Desktop is KDE.
jim@midknight:~$ uname -a
Linux midknight 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jim@midknight:~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b147)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)
SoapUI version 4.0.1
Note: I made the /opt/soapui-4.0.1 directory world writable to ensure there weren't any perms problems.
Here is the output:
jim@midknight:~$ /opt/soapui-4.0.1/bin/soapui.sh
================================
=
= SOAPUI_HOME = /opt/soapui-4.0.1
=
================================
21:27:16,214 INFO [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [/opt/soapui-4.0.1/soapui-settings.xml]
21:27:17,269 INFO [SoapUI] Used java version: 1.7.0
(process:11135): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.30.0/./gobject/gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()
(process:11135): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
(process:11135): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f406f3605f1, pid=11135, tid=139914903353088
#
# JRE version: 7.0-b147
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (21.0-b17 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libgconf-2.so.4+0x175f1] gconf_enum_to_string+0xc01
#
# 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:
# /home/jim/hs_err_pid11135.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#
http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp#
Jim C.