Posted by Rami Santina on Jun 08, 2011; 8:45am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Has-anyone-got-JOGL-2-running-on-Ubuntu-10-04-1-tp3035618p3038304.html

Regarding the title yes it works on ubuntu 10.x ...
regarding the error check the thread "NEWT Window disappear instantly
at initialization"
looks like the same problem.