Using java.util.Collections kills the compiler ("class file ... is broken, ...")

[smarter]

object Max {
  java.util.Collections.max(null)
}

Boom:

error: error while loading Collections$1,
 class file /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/rt.jar(java/util/Collections$1.class) is broken, reading aborted with class java.util.NoSuchElementException
key not found: E
one error found

[retronym]

Sounds similar scala/scala#2750, but that symptom appears in other bugs too.

[DarkDimius]

Assigning LowPriority as it does not stop us from bootstrapping.