org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase failing with IBM JDK

The org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase testcase fails with the following error:
Forked Java VM exited abnormally. Please note the time in the report does not reflect the time until the VM exit.
junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Forked Java VM exited abnormally. Please note the time in the report does not reflect the time until the VM exit.

In the test log you can see this:
one-test:
[delete] Deleting: /home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/log/test.log
[junit] Running org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase
[junit] Unhandled exception
[junit] Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00040000
[junit] J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000004 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000001
[junit] Handler1=F7F8961B Handler2=F7F4E2CC InaccessibleAddress=D51E5488
[junit] EDI=0A0D7E78 ESI=00000003 EAX=FFAEC4A4 EBX=0A02E818
[junit] ECX=FFAEC4A4 EDX=D51E547C
[junit] EIP=F7F867D3 ES=0000002B DS=0000002B ESP=FFAEC46C
[junit] EFlags=00210296 CS=FFAE0023 SS=0004002B EBP=FFAEC474
[junit] Module=/mnt/jqa/ibm-java2-i386-50/jre/bin/libj9vm23.so
[junit] Module_base_address=F7F63000
[junit] Target=2_30_20081126_26240_lHdSMr (Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5)
[junit] CPU=x86 (8 logical CPUs) (0x1f75ed000 RAM)
[junit] JVMDUMP006I Processing Dump Event "gpf", detail "" - Please Wait.
[junit] JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting System Dump using '/home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/core.20090522.170741.29133.0001.dmp'
[junit] JVMDUMP010I System Dump written to /home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/core.20090522.170741.29133.0001.dmp
[junit] JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting Snap Dump using '/home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/Snap.20090522.170741.29133.0002.trc'
[junit] JVMDUMP010I Snap Dump written to /home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/Snap.20090522.170741.29133.0002.trc
[junit] JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting Java Dump using '/home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/javacore.20090522.170741.29133.0003.txt'
[junit] JVMDUMP010I Java Dump written to /home/brq/mmalina/jbossqa/ibm/jboss-5.1.0.CR1-src/testsuite/output/javacore.20090522.170741.29133.0003.txt
[junit] JVMDUMP013I Processed Dump Event "gpf", detail "".
[junit] Running org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase
[junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
[junit] Test org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase FAILED (crashed)