Why is my Matlab unable to run Simulink/MATLABWindow?

This is my error code when I am trying to start SIMULINK:

   Warning: MATLABWindow application failed to launch. Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application 
  > In sltemplate.ui.StartPage/showWithFallback
    In sltemplate.ui.StartPage.show

Referring to a similar issue that has allready been solved I tried the following:

>> cd(matlabroot)
>> ! bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow

But I get the following error code, that has not been covered by the previously answered question:

bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

I am running Matlab R2017b on Manjaro Linux.

Answer 1

[bk]

Hi,

I had the same issue. I am also running Matlab R2017b on Manjaro Linux with kernel 4.15.12-. This seems to solve the problem in my case:

1) Install the libselinux package from AUR

2) exclud libfreetype* files

sudo mv matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/libfreetype* exclude_path

3) run "! matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow" as in simulink issues. I got the 2 error code with the proposed solution: "Set aside MATLAB’s copy of the libglib-2.0.so library, located in matlabroot/cefclient/sys/os/glnxa64".

sudo mv matlabroot/cefclient/sys/os/glnxa64/libglib-2.0.so* exclude_path

I executed "! matlabroot/bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow" once more but the matlab terminal showed only errors. I do not recommend that ;). However, I am able to run simulink and run simulations without errors or warnings so far. Until now, everything seems to work fine :).

Best regards

[Alex]

This seems to solve the problem. Thank you very much. I'm not getting any warnings or errors.

Best regards

[jjkohli]

Do you mind explaining what exclude_path is? I'm using arch linux, and have the same issue. Thanks

[Alex]

The exclude_path is a path to any folder you like. For example make a new folder named "exclude" in this directory and move the files there, so you can find them in case you need to put them back in place.

[jjkohli]

excellent. It worked perfectly fine for me using arch linux. Thanks for the assistance

[Athanasios Tasoglou]

Windows are working now but in my case the keyboard input stopped working. Can't type anything in the log-in screen. Any clues?

[Radek Hlavinka]

#bb Can I ask how did you derive this solution? Worked for me as well on Arch Linux with Matlab R2020a

[Alessandro Genova]

also, (currently in September 2022) version R2022b does not work on Linux (at least FOR ME), so I installed R2022a and works.

[Tushar]

Same issue here. It is quite shameful that such an expensive software is not able to support linux ootb.