MATLAB has a set of dependencies that are different from Java and Perl. If you are running your shell in the confinement of a CHROOT environment, you need to make sure that these dynamic dependencies are made available. Furthermore, SIMULINK also has dependencies, some of which are different from those of MATLAB.
You can run LDD on MATLAB and SIMULINK in the $MATLAB/bin/$ARCH directory, where $MATLAB = the MATLAB root directory on your machine and $ARCH is you system architecture. The executable files for MATLAB and SIMULINK are "matlab" and "libmwsimulink.so".
In particular, if you are not allowed to access /dev/ptmx or other pty devices under the /dev directory, MATLAB will not be able to use the bang (!) operator to shell out of MATLAB and run arbitrary shell commands.
Also note that /dev and directories such as /dev/pts are "two" file systems, so you have to mount each explicitly onto the CHROOT partition. The following set of commands is what you use to set up the CHROOT environment:
DIR=/data/rouquett/sandbox
mount -r --bind /bin ${DIR}/bin
mount -r --bind /lib ${DIR}/lib
mount -r --bind /dev ${DIR}/dev
mount -r --bind /dev/pts ${DIR}/dev/pts
mount -r --bind /etc ${DIR}/etc
mount -r --bind /export ${DIR}/export
mount -r --bind /opt ${DIR}/opt
mount -r --bind /proc ${DIR}/proc
mount -r --bind /sbin ${DIR}/sbin
mount --bind /tmp ${DIR}/tmp
mount -r --bind /usr ${DIR}/usr
mount -r --bind /var ${DIR}/var
For auto-mounted NFS volumes, you would have to do something like:
mount -t nfs <server>:<path-to-home file system> ${DIR}/home
