How can I fix the "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" bug?

I'm trying to run MATLAB R2015b (students-licence) in my Ubuntu 15.04. I've done it before in an equivalent system, in the same computer, and it used to work nicely; however, this time I have this message in my screen:

charizard@bruno-S451LB:~$ matlab
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've read some solutions on the internet, but none of them did work.As a particularity, I had a previous bug in the installation (it used to crash saying something about invalid blocks length), that I fixed re-downloading all the installation files.

[Eli]

sudo apt-get install matlab-support Follow the suggestions from this package and it probably fix the problems and Matlab runs (I had a name conflicts with some gcc librarries)

[giulio luzzati]

Thank you so much! worked for me

[Jesus Pernas]

for me also (using ubuntu 16.04)

[benny lu]

worked for me too! (mint 18)

[Arjun Varshney]

Worked for me! (Ubuntu 16.04)

[EYBAR CONTRERAS VILLAMIZAR]

worked for me, thanks.

Answer 1

[Pedro Gusmao]

Hi,

I was having the same problem, I guess from the error messages that it was due to the the old libc libraries used by Matlab.

I installed the packages matlab-support and matlab-support-dev and things started to work.

Hope it helps,

Pedro

[Pedro Gusmao]

One more thing: Chose to rename the old GCC libraries form MATLAB and use the new ones from Ubuntu when asked!!!

[A G]

sudo apt-get install matlab-support

The above command works for me. I am using Matlab R2016a on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Intel Processor, AMD GPU)

[Nick Brake]

This worked for me using Ubuntu 16.04 and R2015a

[LionelB]

I am still getting segfaults (R2016a on Ubuntu 16.04) after installing matlab-support. This appears to be a Java problem (I am using the built-in Java; i.e., not setting MATLAB_JAVA). I do not get segfaults when running with -nojava.

Error log attached.

Answer 2

[Sergio Vidal]

Worked for Ubuntu 16.04 and R2016a.

Answer 3

[Mateus Silva D'Almeida]

Worked for me. I'm using Mint 16.04.1 and Mathlab R2016b. Thanks!