Error opening matlabpool on openSUSE

I am running a code on matlab R2014b (on Dell server T 620 with openSUSE) and I get the following error message written to my output file. And somehow the code is still getting executed but it uses only one core out of all the available cores. I did update java but still the same error. Any kind of pointers will be appreciated. Thanks

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> {Error using matlabpool>iVerifyJava (line 167) matlabpool is not supported because: Java is not currently available.

Error in matlabpool (line 125) iVerifyJava(); }

[Edric Ellis]

Are you launching MATLAB with the -nojvm startup flag? (If so, don't do that because Java is required for opening a parallel pool).