[15914] in Athena Bugs
your Linux Matlab bug report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 30 11:33:42 1998
To: jesse@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:33:38 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>System name: exodus
>Type and version: i686 unknown version (no /etc/athena/version found)
>Display type: ???
>What were you trying to do?
> Run the default matlab version or version 5.1 on a Linux machine.
>What's wrong:
> matlab and matlab -ver 5.1 both seg fault
> matlab -ver 5.2 works fine
>What should have happened:
> the previous versions should have started up, as early as last week
> matlab -ver 5.1 worked fine.
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> looks like someone just recently added the version 5.2 of the
> software, so perhaps that has something to do with the previous
> versions failing to work now.
Hi Jesse,
I took a look at your bug report and it's a bit puzzling- matlab -ver 5.1
and -ver 5.2 both work fine for me on the two Linux-Athena machines I
have access to; also, to the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed in the
Matlab 5.1 locker for the last month at least- 5.2 is new; it was just
installed last week; however it is independent of the 5.1 installation
and should not be affecting it in any way.
The only thing I can think of is that it looks like you might have a
very recent CPU, that might not be compatible with older Matlab
releases, though I have no idea why Matlab 5.1 might have been working
a week ago but not now. Perhaps something else in your environment
has changed?
If you want to pursue this further please send mail to
linux-help@mit.edu- that mailing list is for getting assistance with
Linux-Athena software. At least it looks like you can use release 5.2 as a
work-around.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
Software Acquisition Coordinator
