Matlab R2017b not running on Ubuntu 17.10

I had worked using Matlab R2017b installed in Ubuntu 17.04. Yesterday I updated to Ubuntu 17.10, and when I tried to run Matlab, I got the following error message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application Fatal Internal Error: std::exception: map::at I had alredy tried to solve it by reinstalling Matlab, but nothing changed. Can anyone help?

[Michael Lee]

I'm having the same problem. I tried installing on both Wayland and Xorg, and I get the same error message on both.

Edit: Following the instructions here seemed to fix it!

[John Hipp]

I have R2017b running on Ubuntu 17.10, but pop-up windows don't work (eg for logging in or for getting Add-Ons).

Answer 1

[Marcos Rogério Fernandes]

Try typing that into the terminal:

 xhost si:localuser:root

with adm privileges before running the Matlab application. Maybe can fix your problem!

[Sabrina Rosy]

It is not working.

[Walter Roberson]

Sabrina Rosy, did you try the instructions Michael Lee linked to, the bug report?

[Ryan]

Thank you Marcos. This solved a related problem for me:

GUI did not open when executing "sudo ./install" but did so after I entered this command and tried again.

[Shaowu Pan]

this solves the problem for me..

my problem is the matlab seems to be crashed after updating from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 17.10.