Source: freemat Version: 4.0-2 Severity: normal Forwarded: https://sourceforge.net/p/freemat/bugs/489/
As reported to Ubuntu [1]:Freemat does not start if there is a file or a directory named Private in the user's home directory.
This still affects freemat 4.2. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freemat/+bug/893742
