[CentOS] java installation failure

Tue Dec 20 14:41:23 UTC 2011
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>
> Message: 37
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:41:26 -0500
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] java installation failure
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
>
> I would suggest that if openjdk doesn't work, you go with Sun/Oracle's
> java, which is the Source of All Java
>

Sun java was obtained. After attempt to run jedit, the following error occurred:

jedit
Warning: $JAVA_HOME environment variable not set! Consider setting it.
         Attempting to locate java...
Found a virtual machine at: /usr/local/java/jdk/jre/bin/java...
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0000003931414da0, pid=3808, tid=140007079671568
#
# JRE version: 7.0_02-b13
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (22.0-b10 mixed mode
linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x14da0]
#
# 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:
# /usr/local/eclipse/hs_err_pid3808.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
Aborted (core dumped)

Any advice how to enable "core dumping" as described in the command
terminal output?