problem with drawString

[mwexford]

i am creating a java application in eclipse. the java framework i'm using is 1.4.2 and the version of eclipse is 3.1.2.

the issue i'm having is with drawString. when i attempt to call drawString on a Graphics or Graphics2D object i get the error...

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*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08089250 ***
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here is a sample bit of code that produces the error:

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BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage( 100, 100, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB );
Graphics g = img.getGraphics();
g.drawString( "test", 0, 0 );
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i, however, do not get any error when i call drawString on the Graphics object in the overriden "paint" method of a JFrame object. for example, the following code works fine:

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public void paint( Graphics g )
{
g.drawString( "test", 20, 40 );
}
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if someone could please help me out, i'd greatly appreciate it! i'm new to java and this problem has kept me stumped for many hours.

thanks,
mike

[evlich]

This doesn't seem like a Java problem, but rather a problem with the JVM. What version of the JVM are you using?

[mwexford]

i switched to a different version of the jvm and it works!

thank you so much!

mike