MATLAB: Do I receive an assertion error when I start MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on RedHat Linux

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When I run MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on RedHat Linux, I receive the following assertion on startup:
 Inconistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1259: dl_main: Assertion '_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next==_rtld_local.dl_rtld_map.l_next' failed!
After this error is printed, MATLAB continues executing normally.

Best Answer

This error is due to a bug in glibc-2.3.3 running under kernel-2.6. In order to work around this issue, there is a patch available for downloading on the RedHat web site at the following location:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2004-02/msg00053.html
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