MATLAB: Do I receive a memory corruption error when launching MATLAB on a Linux machine

MATLAB

Upon MATLAB launch, the following error is received:

 *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000000599800 *** Abort

The machine is running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (Kernel 2.6.9 and glibc 2.3.4).

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

This is a known issue. To resolve this, follow the directions given below:

1. Open the .matlab7rc.sh file in your $MATLAB/bin folder (where $MATLAB is your MATLAB installation directory).

2.Add the following two lines to the beginning of the .matlab7rc.sh file:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

3. Restart MATLAB.

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

This is a known issue. To resolve this, follow the directions given below:

1. Open the .matlab7rc.sh file in your $MATLAB/bin folder, where $MATLAB is your MATLAB installation directory.

2. Add the following two lines to the beginning of the .matlab7rc.sh file:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

3. Restart MATLAB.

This bug has been fixed for Release 14 (R14). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This issue has been forwarded to our development staff to be addressed in a future release of MATLAB.

The problem occurs if you use LessTif's version of libXm.2.dylib

As a workaround, please be sure that your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH does not contain a directory with LessTif's libXm.2.dylib on it.

Some customers have gotten the following to work:

In a terminal, type the following (all as one continuous command);

 setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH  
 /Applications/MATLAB6p5/sys/os/mac:/Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/mac:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/sw/lib

Alternatively, you can edit /Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/matlab. by doing the following:

After the first line of that file that reads as follows:

 "#! /bin/sh":

You can insert the following 2 lines:

 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/MATLAB6p5/sys/os/mac:/Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/mac:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
 export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH