Fatal Error in JRE

Fatal Error in JRE

I am working on an application and decided to update java to java7. After
doing this and setting the appropriate values to env. variables $PATH and
$JAVA_HOME, I get the following error:
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f19addeaa34, pid=28052, tid=139748278572864
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_40-b43) (build
1.7.0_40-b43)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.0-b56 mixed mode
linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x644a34] get_method_id(JNIEnv_*, _jclass*, char const*,
char const*, bool, Thread*)+0x84
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core
dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
Any help is appreciated.