I have downloaded the EE JDK 5.07 for Linux from Sun.

If I try and run java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin as a normal user it works fine and I get the gui installer to appear.

However if I run it as root, I get this output and then if hangs indefinitely ultimately requiring a kill -9 to stop:

[root@canthus Downloads]# ./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin
Checking available disk space...
Checking Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment...
Extracting Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment files...
*** glibc detected *** ./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x092d52a8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x5850f1]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x588bc0]
./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin(GetPublicJREPath+0x6df)[0x8054269]
./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin(main+0x8f8)[0x804e37c]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0x531e8c]
./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin(dlopen+0x41)[0x804c9f5]
======= Memory map: ========
<SNIP>
ffce7000-ffcfc000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0                              [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp ffffe000 00:00 0
Deleting temporary files...


Any ideas???
Thx