Problem with JAVA I guess

I have installed MATLAB 2018b, I am running it on Ubuntu 20.04. Whenever I start the mATLAB, I get the below error-

PostVMInit failed to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartupForDesktop

/bin/bash: run: command not found

Also, I am not able to see any workspace variables. I get a long error starting with-

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0": java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartupForDesktop

I installed MATLAB 2020a and 2020b, I have same issues with them. I tried using default JAVA shipped from MATLAB, openjdk8, openjdk11 and openjdk15, nothing resolved. It would be grateful if someone could help me with this. I am not able to see any workspace variables.

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/98599-why-will-matlab-not-start-up-properly-on-my-linux-or-unix-based-system

[Dushyant Sahoo]

Hi, I have tried that post but didn't work.

[Mu Chiao]

I have WINDOWS 10 home and MATLAB 2020b, no problem at first, but later on I reinstalled matlab to add more toolboxes, then this problem shows up. Tried to reinstall matlab to fewer toolbox configuration, did not work. Tried to delete the directory, did not work.. Tried to reset path to factory also did not work.

[Mu Chiao]

I asked matlab technical support and they suggested a solution and it worked for me:

1. Disable virus scanning progrom. In my case, I disabled Cisco AMP.
2. Reinstalled matlab.

Then the problem is fixed.

[Dushyant Sahoo]

Thanks for the answer, but I don't have Windows, so that solution won't work for me.

[Mu Chiao]

Have you tried this?

1. Start MATLAB from command prompt using the following command:

matlab -noopengl

From this thread:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/439931-how-can-i-resolve-java-error-when-plotting-with-r2018b#answer_357272

[Andrea Nardin]

I have the same issue and none of the proposed solutions worked for me

Answer 1

[Manish Mahalwal]

Hi Dushyant,

The NoClassDefFoundError is a specific Java error having to do with the static class initialization. I have attached a patch which should resolve the issue. I had to zip the file because MATLAB Answers doesn't support *.tar, so unzip the file first.

1. To install, you can do the following at your linux command line:

%% Save the mwswingPatch3.tar file to your matlabroot/java directory
% cd <matlab root>/java
% tar xvf mwswingPatch3.tar

2. Then you should restart MATLAB.

3. You should see the following messages at the top of the command line:

MJStartupForDesktop.init

MJStartupForDesktop.init - done

If for some reason there is an error, you can remove the patch by doing the following to remove the java/patch directory which was created by the patch above:

% cd <matlab root>/java
% rm -rf patch

Hope this helps.

[Joachim Vandekerckhove]

Hi Manish,

I'm getting the same java exception error using R2020a (Update 6) on Ubuntu 20.10. MATLAB will boot but with a warning message "PostVMInit failed to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartupForDesktop". The desktop largely works, but is a little buggy (tooltips don't go away once they pop up, for example), but more critically some java-heavy functions like uiimport(file) just fail with java exceptions (see attachment).

I installed your patch (thank you!), but that caused MATLAB to fail to boot entirely unless I turn off jvm. (I was able to remove the patch again.) I imagine the patch is not current for 20.10. Is there an update you can share?

Thanks,

Joachim

PS. If you have access to TWM Tech Support cases, it's #04706195.

[Manish Mahalwal]

Update: Joachim's issue was resolved using another patch for R2020a on Ubuntu. I have posted the patch as another answer here.

Answer 2

[Larry Stern]

This sounds very much like the same issue I diagnosed on windows version of MATLAB. Cisco amp deletes one file, glugen-rt.jar located in Matlab’s \java\jarext folder.

Depending on your organization’s amp settings, the amp administrator will need to add that file to their exclusion list.

Once that happens you can copy the one file back. And then MATLAB will work correctly again.

I also opened a ticket with mathworks tech support and they are going to get their engineering team to communicate with Cisco so that the global community will not run into this issue.

[Mohammed Al-Ghaithi]

Hey Larry

am sorry for asking you this, but I am a beginner in Matlab and I was wondering if you can help me with some uni tasks about covid19 representation

[Larry Stern]

I am not a MATLAB programmer. I am a sys admin. I install MATLAB for users at a university.

Answer 3

[Manish Mahalwal]

For MATLAB R2020a on Ubuntu 20.

I have attached a patch which should resolve the issue. I had to zip the file because MATLAB Answers doesn't support *.tar, so unzip the file first.

1. In MATLAB, execute the following command and make a note of its location:

>> matlabroot

2. Exit from MATLAB.

3. Copy attached "mwswingPatch2020a.tar" to "matlabroot" directory.

4. Unpack the tar file by executing the following command at the Linux command line:

>> tar xvf mwswingPatch2020a.tar

5. Start MATLAB

If for some reason there are any issues, the patch can be removed by doing the following to remove the java/patch directory which was created by the patch above:

1. From the linux command line, cd to the "matlabroot".

2. Run the following command:

>> rm -rf java/patch

[Dushyant Sahoo]

Thanks for the update. I used this patch. I got the below message on starting MATLAB-

MJStartupForDesktop.init

MJStartupForDesktop.init - done

MJStartup beginning

MJStartup init thread settings

MJStartup init swing

PostVMInit failed to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartup

/bin/bash: run: command not found

I guess there is still some bug in my installation or somewhere. I am using MATLAB R2020b with Ubuntu 20.04

[Manish Mahalwal]

This is an expected behaviour. These are additional startup logging messages just to make sure the issue is avoided.

[Dushyant Sahoo]

But I am still getting below message

PostVMInit failed to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartup

/bin/bash: run: command not found

in addition to messages printed out due to the patch.