MATLAB gets stuck in the "Initializing" state during startup from bat file

I am running win7 and MATLAB 2010B. The MATLAB licence is held on our lab licence server.

When I start MATLAB normally it runs fine. "Initializing" takes a few seconds and then proceeds to "Ready" as expected. Great.

I now ask MATLAB to start through a bat file on Task Scheduler at 3am (say). When I get into the office at 7am (yeah, sure!) I see MATLAB has fired the IDE up fine but has got stuck in the intializing state.

Hence this problem only occurs when running from bat file.

I read the below: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/support/solutions/en/data/1-2Z18MA/ I do not have any such MATLAB related system env variables specified, but I do not think this relates to a MATLAB licence held on a server.

I put pause(120) at the start of my matlab file, but it makes no diffference.

I then try and modify my bat file from:

start matlab -r "addpath('D:\CODE\MATLAB\Matlab_Code\startUp');abs_autoStartUp"

to

start matlab -c 28000@999.999.999.6 -r "addpath('D:\CODE\MATLAB\Matlab_Code\startUp');abs_autoStartUp"

Where the port and the ip address are the ones specified in network.lic in my program files. The path relates to the location of abs_autoStartUp.m.

This seems to make no difference.

any ideas?

thanks!!

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

If I remember correctly you were attempting to run the script through Task Scheduler with auto login. Just a guess here: You are part of an active directory domain and the auto login does not log you into the AD domain.

[Matlab2010]

this is a stand alone PC with no domain membership

[Friedrich]

So ML starts at least. I doubt thats a license issue than. What does your abs_autoStartUp.m file do? What happens when specify no -r flag? Does MATLAb does start as it should?

[Daniel Shub]

@Friedrich see the reposted question http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/37772-matlab-gets-stuck-in-the-initializing-state-during-startup-from-bat-file