MATLAB crashes on startup when using jvm (ubuntu 16.04.1)

I recently installed MATLAB R2018a and experienced crashing on startup. Whenever I ran matlab from the terminal the splash would pop up for a few seconds, then the entire OS would freeze. I was forced to hard reset my computer as I was completely locked out. Because of this, no error messages or logs have been created at any point in time.

I then uninstalled MATLAB then reinstalled it and was met with the same error. I uninstalled MATLAB again then installed the R2016b version which works on another machine of mine with the same operating system. The exact same crashing recurred.

I then discovered that I am able to run MATLAB successfully if I start it with the -nojvm option. I then did a fresh install of java (OpenJDK version 1.8.0_171) after finding it was not installed. This did not resolve the issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Gaston Melo]

Did you solve your problem? Im expirience problems with ubuntu 18.04 and matlab 2018b. It only works with -nojvm. If I tried to launch matlab the system crash and need to reboot.Could this be a memory problem, i have 4 gb ram? i have installed oracle 8 -jre.

Answer 1

[Pepijn Marcus]

Any solution? I've got exactly the same problem.

Answer 2

[Gaston Melo]

Hi, it depends on OS you have (linux version). In my case I was using Ubuntu and when matlab started the system crash due to CPU reach over 100%. So I needed to increase (i dont remember now the command) by console command. You can check the problem using the command "top" on linux console.

I changed Ubuntu to opensuse (tumbleweed) and matlab installation was really smooth (no problem at all).

Regards

Gaston

[Pepijn Marcus]

Matlab indeed uses a lot of CPU when starting up, top showed up to 300% until crash. My PC has four cores, so I started with:

taskset -c 3 matlab

to try and boot matlab on all cores, to no avail. Will try to keep this updated while I try other things, if anyone can help I'd be much obliged.

Answer 3

[Gaston Melo]

try this one

ulimit -c unlimited ./matlab

[Pepijn Marcus]

That doesn't do anything, unfortunately (and neither does ulimit -c unlimited matlab).