Re: matlab

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:

    Erik> 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?

Try strace matlab?

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

Is Matlab still based on libc5?

If so that might be a problem - the format of utmp/wtmp IIRC has
changed from libc5 to libc6.

(then again, if that was the case it shouldn't work with su...).
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>