posted 10 years ago
Today I installed Matlab on the head node of a small cluster. It is running Scientific Linux very similar to CentOS 6.4.
Mathworks uses a jnlp based download agent.
After Firefox just didn't seem to do anything, I ran it from a command line. I got a single GTK error but those are so common I just ignore them. Then it seg-faulted.
After a little reading I found a suggestion to use javaws -verbose, to help track down the problem or so I thought.
Running the exact same command with -verbose (javaws -verbose donwload_agent) everything worked just fine.
I had tried both openJDK 1.6 and 1.7 both got the error.
Any idea why -verbose would fix this?
Thanks,
Joe
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