Thread Subject: 2007a problem on PPC

Hello, I just installed 2007a on my Powerbook (PPC) 1.25GHz, and
well, it's not working! When I double-click the Matlab 7.4 shortcut
X11 starts up, the Matlab starter icon bounces in the dock, then
disappears. Checking my console logs (console.log) I see the entry:

XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
removing from list!

Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get this sorted out soon,
I'm gong to have to revert back to a previous version of Matlab...

Thanks!

o_depot wrote:
>
>
> Hello, I just installed 2007a on my Powerbook (PPC) 1.25GHz, and
> well, it's not working! When I double-click the Matlab 7.4
> shortcut
> X11 starts up, the Matlab starter icon bounces in the dock, then
> disappears. Checking my console logs (console.log) I see the
> entry:
>
> XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
> Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
>
> Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get this sorted out soon,
> I'm gong to have to revert back to a previous version of Matlab...
>
> Thanks!
  

Okay. I dunno if this is the same for everyone else, but I wanted
to post what I've found so far. So, my install directory for MATLAB
7.4 (2007a) is:
/Applications/MATLAB74
inside this directory is a file called 'MATLAB 7.4' which is really a
link which points to:
/Applications/MATLAB74/bin/mac/StartMATLAB.app
StartMATLAB.app is itself a folder of files and inside it is the
launcher at:
/Applications/MATLAB74/bin/mac/StartMATLAB.app/Contents/launch_matlab.
sh
the launcher basically sets up X11, then runs:
bin/mac/setsid bin/matlab -desktop -display :0.0 &
(this is for my case of a PPC install, for an OS X Intel install
bin/mac/setsid becomes bin/maci/setsid )
the funny thing is that there is no file
bin/matlab
I'm guessing that it should point to bin/scripts/matlab or that
something didn't get placed where it should go. Anyways, when I
copied the file from bin/scripts/matlab to bin/matlab, and then
double-clicked on the MATLAB 7.4 Starter icon, MATLAB 7.4 (2007a) did
indeed start up. HOWEVER, MATLAB does have problems. It doesn't
seem to know where most of it's functions are (num2str, pathtool,
etc), and has problems displaying toolbars, etc. The main interface
looks and acts fine, but MATLAB just isn't right.

I'm not sure why this file was in the wrong place, or really if this
is the right way to go about getting it fixed... (Also, I should
mention that I have now installed MATLAB 2007a multiple times without
any install errors. So I'm pretty sure that the install part has
gone right.)

Hello, I had the same problem you describe here installing Matlab
2007a in Ubuntu 7.04, matlab indeed runs bur the interface doesn't
look right: no toolbar, and the editor doesn't display anything, just
a gray window. At the momen't I don't know what to do, I hope this has
a solution.

Hi,

Just wanna let you know that my matlab installation does not launch
for the very first time. But, then it works fine. I install it under
/opt/matlab. I'm not sure whether that's matter or not. For your
reference.

Thanks,
Cheng

 o_depot wrote:
>
>
> Hello, I just installed 2007a on my Powerbook (PPC) 1.25GHz, and
> well, it's not working! When I double-click the Matlab 7.4
> shortcut
> X11 starts up, the Matlab starter icon bounces in the dock, then
> disappears. Checking my console logs (console.log) I see the
> entry:
>
> XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
> Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
>
> Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get this sorted out soon,
> I'm gong to have to revert back to a previous version of Matlab...
>
> Thanks!

Hi all,

I had the same problem and solved it with the install_matlab script
in /Applications/MATLAB74/ (or wherever you have installed to).
Running this seemes to fix the problem, placing a matlab script in
/Applications/MATLAB74/bin.

Simon

Cheng Hsu wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wanna let you know that my matlab installation does not launch
> for the very first time. But, then it works fine. I install it
> under
> /opt/matlab. I'm not sure whether that's matter or not. For your
> reference.
>
> Thanks,
> Cheng
>
> o_depot wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello, I just installed 2007a on my Powerbook (PPC) 1.25GHz,
and
>> well, it's not working! When I double-click the Matlab 7.4
>> shortcut
>> X11 starts up, the Matlab starter icon bounces in the dock,
then
>> disappears. Checking my console logs (console.log) I see the
>> entry:
>>
>> XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
>> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
>> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
>> Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
>> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
>> removing from list!
>>
>> Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get this sorted out
> soon,
>> I'm gong to have to revert back to a previous version of
> Matlab...
>>
>> Thanks!

merinopm@gmail.com writes:

> Hello, I had the same problem you describe here installing Matlab
> 2007a in Ubuntu 7.04, matlab indeed runs bur the interface doesn't
> look right: no toolbar, and the editor doesn't display anything, just
> a gray window. At the momen't I don't know what to do, I hope this has
> a solution.

I believe this is a problem with Java and the new Beryl compositing
window manager. If you are willing to go diving in to software
patches, the following is a link that fixed it for me, on FC6 using
Beryl:

http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Java

Good luck

-Peter

I decided to give MATLAB 2007a a try again, and this hint (running
the install_matlab script) got it working! I needed to run it as
root, but it seemed to work after answering all the default answers
to the questions, and not installing the license manager...
   Now MATLAB 2007a is running on my PPC Mac!
Thanks for this hint!

>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I had the same problem and solved it with the install_matlab script
> in /Applications/MATLAB74/ (or wherever you have installed to).
> Running this seemes to fix the problem, placing a matlab script in
> /Applications/MATLAB74/bin.
>
> Simon
>
> Cheng Hsu wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wanna let you know that my matlab installation does not
> launch
>> for the very first time. But, then it works fine. I install it
>> under
>> /opt/matlab. I'm not sure whether that's matter or not. For
your
>> reference.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cheng
>>
>> o_depot wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello, I just installed 2007a on my Powerbook (PPC)
1.25GHz,
> and
>>> well, it's not working! When I double-click the Matlab
7.4
>>> shortcut
>>> X11 starts up, the Matlab starter icon bounces in the dock,
> then
>>> disappears. Checking my console logs (console.log) I see
> the
>>> entry:
>>>
>>> XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
>>> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
>>> [DRI] screen 0 installation complete
>>> Screen 0 added: 1280x854 @ (0,0)
>>> Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
>>> removing from list!
>>>
>>> Anyone know what's going on? If I can't get this sorted
out
>> soon,
>>> I'm gong to have to revert back to a previous version of
>> Matlab...
>>>
>>> Thanks!