I turned debug on globally and got a couple more lines of info before it dies
[15/Mar/2002:10:55:05][23933.1024][-main-] Debug: InitializeNsJavaEnv: Initializing nsjava environment
[15/Mar/2002:10:55:05][23933.1024][-main-] Debug: ModuleInit: starting -jvm- thread
[15/Mar/2002:10:55:05][23933.3076][-jvm-] Debug: StartJvm: 0 JVMs in proc. make one.