Why am I unable to start the Network License Manager on Linux?

Why do I receive one of the following errors when I try to launch the Network License Manager on Linux?

./lmgrd: Command not found.

 

/lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

 

MLM: can't initialize: Invalid license file syntax. (-2,40027) EXITING DUE TO SIGNAL 52 Exit reason 20

 

eval: 1: /var/tmp/lm_TMW.ld: not found 
    Waiting 300 secs for MATLAB vendor daemon to come up . . . 
        Type your interrupt character (usually CTRL-C) to quit. 
    Time = 3 secs : still waiting . . .

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2024a/etc/glnxa64/lmhostid: not found
    Error: Your hostname matches the hostname on a SERVER line in
           your license file but the lmhostid in that line does not.
           Your local lmhostid(s) are:
           Your hostname is:  licserver1.support.mathworks.com           
           The SERVER line in question is:
           -----------------------------------------------
           SERVER licserver1.support.mathworks.com 001122DDEE99 27000
           -----------------------------------------------
Please stop, fix the problem, and try again . . .

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

One or more of the above errors will occur if you try to run the License Manager on a system which is missing the LSB Core library, which the License Manager depends upon.

You can install the LSB Core libraries as a workaround. You may do so with one of the following commands, depending on the Linux distribution and package manager you are using:

Ubuntu 22.04/Debian 11

sudo apt install lsb-core

or

sudo apt-get install lsb-core 

RedHat/CentOS 8.x or older

sudo yum install redhat-lsb-core

or

sudo dnf install redhat-lsb-core

RedHat/CentOS Stream 9.x, Ubuntu 23.10+

LSB and LSB-Core are required in order to use the Network License Manager, but are unavailable on these versions of Linux distributions. According to FlexNet Publisher 2021 11.18.1's release notes, the newest distributions are Ubuntu 20.4 SLES 15 SP2, and RHEL 8.