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Matlab, Mathematica broken on Intrepid PXE installed cluster machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Feb 11 16:19:46 2009
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:18:40 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
It seems that both Matlab and Mathematica are broken on Intrepid PXE
installed cluster machines.
On launching Matlab with a default launch (add matlab; matlab) the intial xterm
appears for a fraction of a second, then closes); doing a tty launch
(add matlab; matlab -tty) displays an error message:
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'MathWorks::System::SimpleException'
There's also a keysym translation error, but that's a minor issue.
Launching Mathematica (add math; mathematica) opens the expected
windows, but also an additional dialog stating "Mathematica could not
establish a connection to the kernel. Kernel:Local. Low-level Mathlink
error: The linkname was missing or not in the proper form.
It can be dismissed, but any attempted calculation fails and the
dialog reappears. Doing a non-graphical launch (add math; math) seems
to avoid these problems and it runs (for the few things I tried anyway).
These problems did not manifest on a Hardy Workstation install. They also
don't manifest on a vanilla Intrepid machine with just OpenAFS, nor do
they show up on a Gnome failsafe login.
Bill suggests it may be some effect of the chroot environment.
Alex
