Re: matlab

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Pascal Hos wrote:
> 
> I just received my matlab R12 student version and I'm having some
> difficulties getting it to work correctly on potato. When I start it from an
> xterm the splash screen shows up and it then the program hangs. The strange
> part is that if I su as myself and then execute matlab, everything works just
> fine!? The same problem occurs as root. What could be happening here?

  I suspect that program tries to figure out who's ruinning it and does
not succeed - perhaps it uses entry in utmp/wtmp and xterm does not log
entry there but su does. also check the differences between environments
(when you open xterm and then when you su)

	erik