Duh I suppose I left out all the important info. Well here it is

Debian SID
Kaffe JVM
and the latest and greatest jEdit 4.2final

All of theses were downloaded with apt-get from their respected repositories.

Thanks

~/.jedit$ jedit
[warning] jEdit: jedit.jar not in class path!
[warning] jEdit: Assuming jEdit is installed in /home/ad/.jedit.
[warning] jEdit: Override with jedit.home system property.



[message] Log: When reporting bugs, please include the following information:
[message] Log: java.version=1.4
[message] Log: java.vm.version=1.1.4+cvs
[message] Log: java.runtime.version=1.1.4+cvs
[message] Log: java.vendor=Kaffe.org project
[message] Log: java.compiler=kaffe.jit
[message] Log: os.name=Linux
[message] Log: os.version=2.4.27-1-386
[message] Log: os.arch=i686
[message] Log: user.home=/home/ad
[message] Log: java.home=/usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads
[message] Log: java.class.path=.
[notice] jEdit: An error occurred while connecting to the jEdit server instance.
[notice] jEdit: This probably means that jEdit crashed and/or exited abnormally
[notice] jEdit: the last time it was run.
[notice] jEdit: If you don't know what this means, don't worry.


any hot tips?