title: Java VM crashes under Mac OS X on Spring persistence layer startup
body: <p>I am developing a Spring application which uses Spring Data. We are working in Eclipse Luna (4.4.0) and are using Java 8 update 20 (same problem occurs in higher versions).</p>
  
  <p>When starting the application from Eclipse under Windows it works fine. Under Mac OS X the following error occurs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2015-04-22 14:26:27.492  INFO 5363 --- [           main] o.s.j.d.DriverManagerDataSource          : Loaded JDBC driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
  2015-04-22 14:26:27.590  INFO 5363 --- [           main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Building JPA container EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'jpaPersistenceUnit'
  2015-04-22 14:26:28.715  INFO 5363 --- [           main] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Building JPA container EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'jpaPersistenceUnit'
  #
  # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
  #
  #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fff890330dd, pid=5363, tid=30215
  #
  # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_20-b26) (build 1.8.0_20-b26)
  # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.20-b23 mixed mode bsd-amd64 compressed oops)
  # Problematic frame:
  # C  [libobjc.A.dylib+0x10dd]  objc_msgSend+0x1d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see the error occurs when initializing the database connection to mysql. That database is running.</p>
  
  <p>Any general ideas how to fix this? I know it is a stretch to ask it like this, but please let me know if more information could help. Maybe there are well known situations in which this can occur.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>contents of error log: </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://pastebin.com/cG5RsGJN" rel="nofollow">Pastebin: hs_err_pid5336.log</a></p>