I have confirmed that this issue occurs under Ubuntu 16.04, JRE 8 revision 201. Only started happening with 1.14 pre-release 5. Changing the JVM argument from -Xmx2G to -Xmx4G solved or worked around the issue with the client crashing during the splash screen loading phase.
I have confirmed that this issue occurs under Ubuntu 16.04, JRE 8 revision 201. Only started happening with 1.14 pre-release 5. Changing the JVM argument from -Xmx2G to -Xmx4G solved or worked around the issue with the client crashing during the splash screen loading phase.